Posts tagged 420
Get blown 'On Wine and Hashish' with Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire would go on to write countless poems and essays on the subject, much of which were critical of hash users and the long-term effects of the drug.

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Get high on hash with Victor Hugo

“The doctor’s face beamed with enthusiasm, his eyes sparkled his cheeks reddened, the veins in his temples stood out and his dilated nostrils drew in the air with force. 

‘This will be subtracted from your share in Paradise,’ said he, handing me my allotted dose.”

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The sad truth about sex and weed in space

There are certain Earthly functions that are constants in space too. Mastication, defecation, and urination, are chief among them. Fornication, on the other hand, has no precedent in orbit; neither does weed, as far as we know.

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Required Reading: The Hunting of Billie Holiday

The tl;dr is this: In 1930, Harry Anslinger, a white, racist bureaucrat, was appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. In an attempt to legitimize his position, he launched a “war on drugs,” simultaneously targeting black and brown people and criminalizing the use of marijuana and other substances.

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