Category: Counterculture

Century of Smoke and Lies

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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.

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The Ones Who Built It: Chris Simunek and the Lost Soul of Cannabis Journalism

Chris Simunek sits indoors in front of a deep red wall decorated with painted zebras. He has short dark hair and wears a dark jacket over a white shirt. The lighting is dim and warm, giving the scene a moody, artistic tone. A watermark in the corner reads “Image by: Rebekah Harris

In Part Two of our exclusive interview with former High Times Magazine Editor-in-Chief Chris Simunek, the conversation turns raw. From outlaw growers and underground legends to lost friends and a culture gutted by greed, Simunek reflects on the rise and fall of cannabis journalism. This is not nostalgia. This is what the movement lost when legalization cashed in.

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From Foam to Flower: THC Taps Are Rewriting Bar Culture

Three golden bar taps labeled “THC” pour a foamy amber drink into a tilted pint glass. Above, bold text reads “From Foam to Flower” with a red banner labeled “Culture.” The background is dark green, and the bottom features the website PotCultureMagazine.com with ©2025PotCultureMagazine/ArtDept.

Bars in Wisconsin, South Carolina, and Minnesota are pouring THC from draft taps, replacing beer foam with cannabis fizz. With alcohol use hitting historic lows, low-dose THC drinks are reshaping nightlife rituals and exposing the hypocrisy of booze-friendly laws. The future of bar culture isn’t brewed in hops, it’s flowing from cannabis kegs.

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Pete Davidson’s Weakness Is Not Weed’s Problem

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Pete Davidson’s claim that weed is “too strong” isn’t just a personal meltdown, it’s ammunition for prohibitionists eager to push THC caps and bad laws. Cannabis culture has fought for decades to kill myths and lies, and we won’t let one unstable celebrity hand our enemies the soundbite they’ve been waiting for.

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Cheech Made Chicano Art a Force

Cheech Marin smiles warmly while leaning over a white railing, standing in front of the geometric sculptural facade of The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside, California. He wears a dark blue shirt. Photo by Carlos Puma, courtesy of Riverside Art Museum, 2022.

Cheech Marin turned weed money into a monument. The Cheech isn’t just a museum, it’s a cultural counterpunch, a stoned out cathedral built for the artists the art world ignored. No permission, no filter, no apologies. This is the untold story of how one rebel flipped the script, lit the fuse, and made Chicano art impossible to erase.

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Reefer Report Card: The Week in Weed, Rated July 27, 2025 – Vol. 07

A bold, psychedelic-style graphic for Pot Culture Magazine’s “Reefer Report Card Vol. 07.” The image features swirling red, orange, and green waves with a large cannabis leaf centered over the text. The silhouette of the U.S. Capitol appears in the lower right, with the website PotCultureMagazine.com and copyright ©2025PotCultureMagazine/ArtDept along the bottom.

Delays, raids, and vetoes mar a week already full of weed whiplash, but home growers in Connecticut finally get a win. From the FDA’s excuses to Tyson’s plea for federal legalization, Pot Culture Magazine cuts through the noise and grades the week’s cannabis chaos in Volume 07 of Reefer Report Card.

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