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Once again, it’s debunking time. The New York Post headline — “Bombshell cannabis study reveals hidden risks of medical pot” — is a textbook example of…

For an article in the December, 1979 edition of High Times, late, great counterculture correspondent Glenn O’Brien examined the connections between Santa Claus and a specific…

On occasion, geography offers up some profoundly useful glitches. Other times, with skill and ingenuity, humankind turns that geography into an asset. And in the case…

“Anyone in jail for anything to do with cannabis should be set free.” Ice-T does not blink when he says it. He does not reach for…

Witness them together, and it’s immediately clear: Wendy Zeng and Christina Wong have a special bond.  They cozily share Zeng’s living room couch as we start…

On a humid summer afternoon in Washington Heights, a teenage James Adames lit up in an alleyway he thought was safe. The ritual was familiar, but…

There is a particular kind of clarity that comes only from packing everything you own into a small Ford Focus and heading west. It was a…

Original publication: October of 1979. THE UNTOLD, REAL,TRUE, INSIDE STORY OF THE BEATLES’ SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND “Changing the lifestyle and the appearance of…

By Charles Bukowski Warming up Blue Mongoose on the backstretch before the last race, Larry Peterson noticed that the horse was really rank, almost spooked. Larry…

For Alessandro Zecca and Danielle Duran-Zecca, a husband-and-wife team of culinary dynamos, the concept of romance language takes on many forms. It’s in their signature cuisine,…