For the Culture By The Culture
Tom Rhodes has done what most comics only dream about: crushed stages across five continents, hosted Dutch late-night TV, and built a global audience without selling out. From biker bars in Florida to interviews with the Dutch Prime Minister, this Vault feature revisits a stand-up lifer who’s still writing, still touring, and still torching crowds worldwide.
Bali just made it crystal clear, bring weed and you might leave in a coffin. An American, an Australian, and an Indian national now face Indonesia’s brutal drug penalties, including death. It wasn’t much weed, but in Bali, that doesn’t matter. This isn’t just a bust, it’s a warning shot for tourists worldwide.
Our June cover isn’t just soaking up sun, it’s sparking something bigger. This is what freedom looks like when you stop asking for permission. No brands, no filters, no apologies, just heat, smoke, and a cultural fuck-you to anyone trying to roll back progress. High tides, higher rebellion.
From Hearst’s racist headlines to DEA funded junk science, cannabis has been framed, smeared, and scapegoated for over a century. This feature exposes how lies became law, how fear fueled policy, and how the truth got buried under headlines. It's not just history, it’s a damn indictment.
Canada says legal weed added $9.1 billion to the economy. But behind the GDP spin is a collapsing system where small growers get crushed, megacorps eat everything, and the product gets worse. Legalization was supposed to fix the market. Instead, it handed it over to the highest bidder and called that progress.
Users think Reddit is a safe space for stoner stories. It’s not. With IP logs, subpoenas, and deleted posts preserved on request, digital weed culture has become a self-incrimination trap. Pot Culture exposes the myth of anonymity and the real risks of online oversharing.
