Happy May Day! Now get naked and make love to your neighbor. It’s tradition. Throw in enough Pagan into the mix, and May Day, otherwise known as the Festival of Beltane, is not exactly your PG rated elementary school party of spring blossoms and flower baskets. Held...

You’re cruising over the Bay Bridge from Oakland to San Francisco, windows down, 60 m.p.h., and the entire Pacific Ocean smells like a Phish “Makisupa Policeman” set 1 opener.  It’s 4/20 at 4:20 — that moment every stoner in the Cosmos simultaneously sparks up like...

Close your eyes.  Dig down in, deep inside. We'll wait. Be your mind: Are you spiraling down a rainbow waterslide, cascading along that DNA double helix to the wonder-gasm at the brain base of your spine? If not, you’re doing it wrong. And by “it,” we mean life. Carpe...

God is a stoner, too. On the third day, 20 after 4 in the afternoon, She invented cannabis and bliss, music, melody, and the Here-Ever-After. Seriously. Cannabis is a gateway wonder plant. It does so much shit, you’d think science was stoned off its gourd. Your third...

Certain song lyrics crystalize a raindrop — a rolling truth pebble — synthesizing everything you need to get by, to believe in, “to give me just a little sweetness, just a little sweetness, just a little light.” That lyric from Brent Mydland, whom some would argue was...

This Valentine's Day, Smoke a Peace Pipe With Your Enemies. They miss you.  Why haven't you called? In these down and dreary days of the pandemic, time starts to run together like a Willy Wonka river of COVID snot. No shindigs, few people, nothing to do. You’re caught...

Got an elf scraping the bottom of your cannabis jar in the middle of the night?   Guess what? That elf is you. If all that’s left come morning are a few glittery crystal crumbs too small for a mouse to pack a onie, point fingers all you want — your 3 other...

  Mugwort is a beautiful aromatic flowering plant that is used around the world for its medicinal and health benefits. Named for the Greek moon goddess Artemis, Mugwort refers to more than 200 varieties of plants within the genus Artemisia. There are several...