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John Holmstrom helped create PUNK Magazine before punk became history. Fifty years later, he talks about punk history, the Ramones, Tom Forçade, the Sex Pistols, High Times, the fights over who did what, and why he is putting PUNK back into circulation instead of letting collectors and museums have the last word.
Before dispensaries, cannabis slang helped buyers and sellers talk without saying weed. Code Words traces the underground language of marijuana from Louis Armstrong’s “muggles” and Mezz Mezzrow’s “mezzrolls” to dime bags, lids, pizza, T-shirts, and 420, revealing how prohibition created a private vocabulary that legalization is slowly erasing from cultural memory.
In Cannabis Lies Vol. 24: The Forfeiture Lie, Pot Culture Magazine examines how asset forfeiture turned homes, farms, and businesses into defendants. Government records and Supreme Court cases reveal how marijuana enforcement gave law-enforcement agencies a financial interest in property taken from the people they targeted.
A Blacklight investigation into how celebrity cannabis branding has warped the meaning of icon and overshadowed the activists, caregivers, and families who carried the plant through criminalization. This feature exposes the cultural amnesia that elevates market-friendly faces while burying the movement’s real architects and the sacrifices that made modern legalization possible.
Hemp’s long exile from American agriculture ended with the 2018 Farm Bill. Once banned as contraband, it’s now a cornerstone of sustainable farming and wellness culture. From hempcrete to CBD, this plant’s comeback shows how truth outlasts propaganda. The Hemp Redemption traces its journey from demonization to global commodity.
A hundred years after the 1925 International Opium Convention first outlawed cannabis, prohibition still stands as one of the biggest policy failures in modern history. From colonial fear and racist propaganda to Nixon’s drug war and global treaties, the cost has been human lives, stolen freedom, and wasted truth. The plant survived. The lies didn’t.