Introduction to A Brief History of Weed 2

Introduction to A Brief History of Weed

Having dealt with the hard stuff, Henry Vespa now takes a look at everyone’s favorite leaf in part one of A Brief History of Weed… Grass, hash, weed, bud, hemp, tea, skunk, Mary Jane, sinsemilla, pot, ganja, reefer… All names for one of Mother Nature’s most […]

The Facts About Marijuana

The Facts About Marijuana

In the second of his series on A Brief History of Weed, Henry Vespa now casts a smoky eye over Mary Jane’s transition from acceptable medicine or booze substitute to global government bogeyman… On the whole, it wasn’t until the 20th century that we got […]

Vancouver to Trial Legal Heroin

Vancouver to Trial Legal Heroin

Switzerland has long had a comfortable and measured response to heroin use and it seems that at long last, authorities across the Atlantic are starting to sit up and take notice. Vancouver, a city with a history of tolerance and assistance towards drugs and their […]

Living In A State of Ecstasy

Living In A State of Ecstasy

In Part Three of our new series, A Selective History of Hard Drugs, Henry Vespa looks at the influence that church and state had on drug usage… Yes, when it comes to prohibition and criminalization, we can thank those twin scourges of recreational drug use, the […]

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Aging Dopers Carry On With Their Habit

The widely publicized notion about baby boomers mellowing as a natural result of the aging process seems to be wildly erroneous.  Well, at least according to the U.S Federal Government’s Annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health.  On Wednesday, September 3, 2013, what Uncle […]