For the Culture By The Culture
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.
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.
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.
Reefer Report Card Vol. 04: Connecticut cracks down on smoke shops, Michigan diverts cannabis taxes into lawsuits, and Maryland’s marijuana pardon effort stalls. Santa Barbara ends weed enforcement while Mike Tyson asks Trump for cannabis reform. Pot Culture Magazine rates the week’s wins and fails.
Mike Tyson just launched a full-court press on the federal weed system. Joined by athletes and artists, he’s demanding President Trump reschedule cannabis, release prisoners, and stop treating legal operators like criminals. The DEA is stalling. Congress is hiding. The champ is not. This is the culture punching back, one haymaker at a time.
Willie Nelson’s face is on the can, but the weed isn’t in it. Pot Culture rips the lid off the hemp drink hustle, where celebrity branding and legal loopholes sell weak THC as wellness. This is not cannabis culture. This is a scam wrapped in citrus.
