Marijuana is still illegal in both the United States and Canada, but people keep having events like the ones held recently, it may not be for long. A “4/20″ event at the University of Colorado saw about 3,000 people getting deliciously baked in public, with only half-a-dozen ticketed.
Students celebrated with a makeshift Slip N Slide, […]

The National Institute for Drug Abuse, citing data found by the University of Mississippi’s Marijuana Potency Project (why did I go to college in Wisconsin?), released information yesterday supporting commonly asserted claims that today’s dope is really good shit.
The average THC levels evident in the hashish and marijuana that is available today is far […]

Slate’s Brendan “Indefatigable” Koerner takes a walk through the history of the over-the-counter supplement ginkgo biloba, once thought to be a nootropic capable of making even the bleariest-brained stoner into a sharp rememberer.
In 2002, a long-anticipated paper appeared in JAMA titled “Ginkgo for memory enhancement: a randomized controlled trial.” This Williams College study, sponsored by […]

You know you’re getting good drugs when they are delivered in the figure of a Japanese demon. The Denver Westword talks about “Shabu,” pharmaceutical-grade methampetamine hydrochloride and three-day parties fueled by the stuff. Unlike street meth, which is 10 to 20 percent methamphetamine (and 80 to 90 percent razzle dazzle!), shabu is over 95 percent […]

From the latest newsletter from the best and most comprehensive free online resource on plants and drugs, mind and spirit, freedom and law, and arts and culture:
Funding is very low. We need to raise $5-10,000 in April.
While all is well at Erowid, the much-needed addition of a new crew member last fall has put a […]

“A Child’s Garden of Grass” is an out-of-print “Official Handbook for Marijuana Users,” being republished online in installments. It is a trove of totally false information, which means it has assuredly been quoted for years by officials as gospel.
I – THE HISTORY OF GRASS
Grass was first discovered in Twin Falls, Idaho in 1907 by a […]

Are you sitting down? Into a bathtub of tears? Unwrapping a cupcake filled only with pain?
Perhaps then you are prepared for the most gut-wrenching puppet story since Howdy Doody was infested by nematodes: Sad Kermit covering the Johnny Cash version of “Hurt.”
Bonus: Johnny Cash on the Muppet Show [YouTube]