Barely Legal: Pot in Pop Culture and American Politics

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According to stoner lore, 4:20 was the time of day, in the Seventies, that a baby accumulation of smokers at San Rafael Top School in California would accommodated to get high. The amount has appear down to us as "the accepted time to get high" and/or a nice autograph for marijuana. For our purposes, it's a chiffon but advantageous affectation to absorb this anniversary – anchored as it is by Wednesday, 4/20 – digging into the backroom of pot in America, as able-bodied as its abode in accepted culture. Check aback actuality for approved updates throughout the week


"420 Week" Coverage


The 15 Greatest Stoner SongsThe artists included on our account are a assorted lot, but a lot of every song has two things in common: a aged vibe and a deep, amorous adulation for marijuana – and ganja, pot, cannabis, grass, weed, kaya . . .


Listen: Peter Tosh's Pro-Weed Classic 'Legalize It'
Revisit the appellation clue of a roots-reggae masterpiece


Real Time Host Bill Maher on Offshore Pot Smoking and the War on Drugs
"Is it one of our top 10 problems, to approve pot? No, but catastrophe the biologic war would be a abundant way to save a metric fuckton of money."


The State of Marijuana Law Reform in America
A attending at the accomplished year's advance and setbacks on the alley to a saner biologic policy


Marijuana Law Reform: What's Next?
Interview with amends apostle Ethan Nadelmann on the angle for the year ahead


Pot by the Numbers
How abounding Americans accept smoked up? Where is accessible assessment on medical marijuana? Legalization? Answers to these and added questions

From the Archives: Rolling Stone
on Biologic Law Reform and the War on Drugs


Just Say Now
In August 2010, Ari Berman appear on Proposition 19, California's amends initiative, which came abutting to casual the afterward November

MarijuanAmerica
Mark Binelli wrote in April 2010 about the blooming anarchy across-the-board beyond the nation, from California to city Detroit, and how it's alteration the edger business forever

How the Cartels Work
Guy Lawson's September 2009 address on how Mexican biologic lords accept adapted the narcotics barter in America, abrogation the DEA appears blank to stop them


Plus: Guy Lawson on Mexican Biologic Lords and How the Cartels Work (Video)


A Biologic War Truce?
Tim Dickinson's June 2009 attending at the biologic action of the Obama administering and the growing burden for marijuana law reform

The War Next Door
In November 2008, Guy Lawson wrote about Mexico's coast into agitated anarchy as biologic cartels battled the government


How America Lost the War on Drugs
Aback in December 2007, Ben Wallace-Wells wrote about how, afterwards 35 years and $500 billion, drugs are as bargain and abounding as ever


The Abundant California Edger Rush
Vanessa Grigoriadis' February 2007 address on how medical marijuana is axis L.A. pot dealers into semi-legit businessmen

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