Monday, October 30, 2023

RIP Judy Balaban: Early LSD Experimenter and Chronicler, and Human Rights Champion

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"Her father was head of Paramount, she was one of Grace Kelly’s bridesmaids, and she shared an LSD experience with Cary Grant," ra...
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Saturday, September 2, 2023

Jimmy Buffett: A Pirate Dies at 76

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Buffett in a pot-leaf-motif jacket with Jenny Lewis at a 2016 concert  in Nashville. UPDATE: Paul McCartney has posted about playing bass o...
Monday, August 28, 2023

75 Years Ago: The Pot Bust of Robert Mitchum and Lila Leeds

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Leeds and Mitchum with their lawyers at their 1949 marijuana trial.  On the evening of August 31, 1948, movie star  Robert Mitchum  went to ...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Republican Candidates Fall Over Each Other on Fentanyl

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Candidates at the first Republican presidential debate (sans Trump) were falling all over each other to say they would fix the fentanyl prob...
Saturday, August 19, 2023

"The Ranch" and the Reefer

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WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS In my continuing series, "Streaming Shows I Catch Up With That Turn Out to Feature Weed," I've been...
Monday, August 14, 2023

Barbie: War and Pink

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WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS The Barbie movie starts out cleverly with a 2001: A Space Odyssey spoof, showing the origin of the doll as a bab...
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Monday, August 7, 2023

Celebrating Marijuana-Using Lefties on Left Handers Day

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"I write with my left hand," opens a 2022 collection of essays titled  A Left-Handed Woman  by Judith Thurman, the award-winning ...