If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Describe your dream blunt rotation… mine would have to include Seth Rogen, Lady Gaga, Barack Obama (and of course my husband, Matt, and two best friends, Julia and …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. You’re an adult (and if you aren’t, please close out of this article) — which means you really ought to be smoking weed like one. Gone are the …
Read More »Phish Fan Banned From Sphere for Taking Bong Rip: 'No Regrets'
A Phish fan’s bid for stoner glory at a 4/20 concert has earned him a burn notice that extends to some of the biggest arenas in the country, but he’ll always be able to claim he was the first — and perhaps last — to take a bong rip in …
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In 2014, I was in Denver for 4/20. It was a heady time. Colorado had recently legalized recreational cannabis, and High Times was capitalizing on the moment by throwing a two-day weed extravaganza known as the Cannabis Cup. I was an editor for them, and I’d been pressed into service …
Read More »They Signed Up to Grow Weed. Then New York State Pushed Them Into the Black Market
O n a rainy day toward the end of September, a longtime underground marijuana grower we’ll call Shawn coasted up I-86 from the Hudson Valley to Rochester to meet with a legal farmer. The farmer hadn’t been able to sell his harvest for over a year, despite owning a fully …
Read More »The Murky Story Behind the Woman Who Stabbed Her Date to Death While High
It was a story straight out of Reefer Madness: A young woman smokes weed and proceeds to stab her date more than 100 times, killing him, before turning the knife on herself and her beloved dog. Tragic, stranger than fiction, and horrifying — the incident captured the headlines for its …
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Kids have always talked to their stuffed animals. In Ted, the bawdy teddy bear fantasy that has yielded two R-rated movies and now a new prequel series on Peacock, the furry beast talks back, often in a four-letter flourish, always with the delivery of some out-of-time Boston vaudevillian. He also …
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