For the Culture By The Culture
A Gen X misfit wanders into the blistering chaos of Bonnaroo 2025, expecting to cover a music festival and instead finds himself knee-deep in vape clouds, serotonin depletion, and existential glitter. What follows is a fictionalized descent into cultural confusion, heatstroke, and a rave tent that may or may not be a septic tank.
Celebrity weed is everywhere, flashy, overpriced, and often full of mids. This piece rips the gloss off the jars and calls out the marketing machine hijacking cannabis culture. Real smokers know the difference between herb and hype. This is your wake-up call.
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival hit like a fever dream—blazing heat, blunt smoke, and a human tidal wave of sunburns and sound. Between bad covers, hybrid spritzers, and Revivalist-induced nausea, survival became the mission. Then Dave Matthews hit the stage, and the crowd cracked wide open. What followed was funk, fatigue, and chaos you don’t walk away clean from.
At 92, Willie Nelson is not just still standing, he is still rolling. He fought for cannabis, freedom, and real music before it was safe, before it was profitable, and before anyone handed out awards for it. Willie did not follow the system. He smoked it, sang through it, and laughed it into submission.
The connection between cannabis and music transcends generations, rooted in a shared ritual of feeling and freedom. From jazz legends to modern festivals, this bond enhances the experience, fostering unity among listeners. Despite commercialization, the essence remains: music and weed thrive at the margins, where genuine creativity and connection flourish.
Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie isn’t a stoner flick, it’s a raw, trippy confessional from two counterculture icons who shaped comedy and cannabis forever. With Dave Bushell behind the camera, the film blends archival chaos, animation, and unresolved tension into a story about brotherhood, pain, and legacy. It's not just a documentary. It’s an honest trip home.
