Culture
The roots run deep.
Cannabis history, science, and culture — the stories behind the plant most people have never heard.
Art & Music
How Reggae Became Inseparable from Cannabis
The connection between reggae and cannabis is older, stranger, and more religious than the casual listener realizes. To understand it you have to go back through Bob Marley, through Rastafari, through colonial Jamaica, all the way to a coronation in Ethiopia in 1930.
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Art & Music
Le Club des Hashischins: When Hashish Met French Romanticism
In the 1840s, a group of Parisian writers and artists met monthly at a hotel on the Île Saint-Louis to eat hashish and write about it. The members included Baudelaire, Hugo, Dumas, and the man who first thought to ask them what they saw.
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Did You Know?
The word "canvas" comes from "cannabis." For most of recorded history, sails, ropes, and rough cloth were made from hemp fiber.
— Oxford English Dictionary, etymology of "canvas"