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America’s Racist War on Drugs Explored in Comics

by Dominic Umile March 20, 2019March 20, 2019

Philadelphia cartoonist Box Brown examines marijuana — where it came from, its life in the US, and, importantly, the breathless national campaign to demonize a certain segment of its users.

Posted inIn Brief

Police Destroy Art Installation, Mistaking It for Cannabis Farm

by Claire Voon July 10, 2017January 17, 2022

A narchitectural mishap killed the buzz surrounding the closing celebrations for Lyon’s first architectural biennial.

Posted inArt

Watch a Weed Artist Sculpt a Beautiful Unicorn Joint

by Carey Dunne April 20, 2016April 19, 2021

The Oregon-based Greenhand — perhaps the Michelangelo of joint rolling — toked himself into cannabis culture fame in 2014 after posting an image of his Sherlock Joint to Reddit.

Posted inArt

Meet the Sisters of the Valley, California’s Radical Weed-Growing “Nuns”

by Carey Dunne April 20, 2016April 21, 2016

Sister Kate and Sister Darcy, a pair of self-ordained new age “nuns” based in Merced, California, are on a holy mission: help make “marijuana a healing industry instead of a stoner industry,” as they recently put it.

Posted inIn Brief

Archaeologists Find Solid Gold Scythian Vessels for Opium and Weed

by Jillian Steinhauer June 3, 2015June 5, 2015

In “a once-in-a-century discovery,” archaeologists excavating in the Caucasus Mountains of Russia have discovered two intact, solid gold vessels used by the Scythians.

(illustration by the author for Hyperallergic)
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Aussie Artist Wants to Put the “High” in High School with Educational Marijuana

by Benjamin Sutton May 21, 2015May 21, 2015

Australian artist Leon Ewing has come under fire for suggesting that drugs should be given to high school students to help unlock their creative potential.

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