Articles tagged with “Culture”
Cars, code, business, chess, fashion, cannabis, spirituality, bodybuilding — not just pastimes but subworlds of significance. How those games work, why disillusionment arrives, and six rules for picking the worlds you actually want to live through.
Most people know Koh Samui as a beach paradise. Few know it was roadless until the 1970s, housed a Japanese wartime base, gave the English language the word "bong," and owes its airport to a surgeon who sold everything he owned to build a runway on a coconut plantation. This is the story of Thailand's most layered island — two thousand years in the making.
From The Chronic to a venture capital fund, from 81 blunts a day to a salaried Professional Blunt Roller — the story of Snoop Dogg isn't really about rap or even about weed. It's about how one man changed an entire planet's attitude toward cannabis.
August 1964. New York. Four lads from Liverpool meet a poet from Minnesota in a suite at the Delmonico Hotel. Dylan is sure they're already "into it" — he's wrong. One evening, one misheard lyric, and one of the most important nights in the history of pop music.
Talk about cannabis usually starts with THC and strain. But one factor often shapes the experience more than chemistry — set & setting. What it is and why music, place and people change the high.
Ten years ago the rule was "the higher the THC, the better." Now more people are choosing low-THC and balanced THC:CBD. Why the industry is rolling back from the THC race.
The cannabis tourism industry is worth $17B. But while Americans and Europeans freely browse Thai dispensaries, Chinese tourists avoid them like police traps — and South Koreans can be jailed for smoking abroad. The world's craziest cannabis laws explained.
From Snoop Dogg to Barack Obama, from Bob Marley to Elon Musk — real facts about stars whose lives are linked to cannabis. Only public statements and documented stories.
