The Stoned Explainer: Indica & Sativa

Carl Linnaeus realized in the 1730s that to successfully study the animals and plants of the world, scientists needed a standard nomenclature for naming individual species. Before Linnaeus, a white oak may be called Majesty Oak in Ireland and Hillside Oak in Scotland. Now it’s called Quercus alba, and its related to some other well-known…

Ode to O’Shaughnessy

When I was in third grade, we had to sit through a D.A.R.E. program in our school library. The police officer told us that smoking cannabis could kill you, and that it was as powerful a drug as heroin or crack. My nine-year old brain immediately smelled bullshit, and I haven’t trusted a cop since.…