Culture
The roots run deep.
Cannabis history, science, and culture — the stories behind the plant most people have never heard.
Around the World
Uruguay: The First Country to Fully Legalize, and What Happened Next
In 2013, a small South American country became the first in the world to legalize cannabis end-to-end. The man who signed the law lived in a farmhouse and drove a 1987 Volkswagen. The rollout has been slow, strange, and instructive.
6 min read
Around the World
Inside Barcelona's Cannabis Social Clubs
Spain didn't legalize cannabis. It didn't need to. A clever reading of the country's privacy laws produced something stranger and more durable: hundreds of members-only clubs operating in a legal gray zone that has lasted three decades.
7 min read
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"