This peaceful village overlooks the world’s most spectacular mountainside marijuana grow-op

BY: CAROLINE ROLF Nine thousand feet up the Indian Himalayas, small villages thrive on what little is able to grow there. What is able to grow in the wild has police searching the cliffs with saws to stop its illegal…

How facing paralysis gave me the strength to face Kilimanjaro

BY: LOGAN LY ALL IMAGES BY: LOGAN LY I hear myself panting. I’m short of breath as I try to shift focus to my feet from the growling wind and the loud, panging pulse that bangs through my eardrums. The…

Starting in 2017, this Colorado county will offer marijuana-funded scholarships to students

BY: TREVOR HEWITT   Though they can’t legally smoke the stuff, they can still use it as an incentive to get high – grades, that is. Starting in 2017, a Colorado county will offer residents college scholarships that are funded…

People are using cannabis oil as an alternative cancer treatment and it’s working

BY: TREVOR HEWITT 120mg Oxcycontin 30mg Morphine 30mg Toreador 4 Tylenol #4 150 mg Amitriptaline 200 mg Celebrex 2000 mg Metphormin 15 mg Lipator 15 mg Clonazapane 15 Avianda 8 mg Coversyle 20 mg Zantac Though this laundry list of narcotics might…

I got high-school high at a “ganja yoga” class in Toronto

BY: REGAN MCNEILL Photos © Eric Zdancewicz / The Plaid Zebra Ganja yoga. You may have heard of it before or you may be wondering what the heck I am talking about. It’s pretty simple to understand, it is a…

Glassblowers are creating stunning bongs that combine function with art

Source: Darby Holm BY: TREVOR HEWITT Don’t drop that bong – it’s worth more than your car. Once an industry relegated to seedy tattoo parlors and sketchy gas stations, glass pipe making is quickly becoming a modern art movement. Source:…

Hippie vans, off-grid and tiny homes: the New American Dream is measured by Instagram likes

By: ROB HOFFMAN Follow Rob on Instagram Rachel Bujalski was sharing a tiny apartment near Venice Beach with four other girls and paying $1,200 a month before she discovered how to live for free in California. She would still live…

Cabin Porn will make you lust for Mother Nature and inspire you to build your own getaway

BY: JOHNATHAN MOSS Cabin Porn images courtesy Little, Brown and Company, © 2015 by Zachary Klein In the middle of windswept plains, embedded within a staggering mountain view sits a cabin so beautiful that it could have stained the bed sheets…

13 essential on-the-road philosophies for the broke, but passionate, shoestring traveller

BY: ROB HOFFMAN  Follow Rob on Instagram A year of cooking my retinas on the white glare of my laptop and a never-ending rotation of office-work had turned my life into a dried and packaged version of itself. It was…

Boy, psychosis was one hell of a drug

I think it was midnight, but it could have been 6 p.m. for all I know. I was in some space time vector that was completely unfamiliar to me. There were strange owl men hanging from the branches of a…

Being sent to boarding school against my will was one of the best things that ever happened to me.

BY: TREVOR HEWITT “Anything you want to give me now before I find it?” I shook my head. “Spread your legs, please.” I thought I had misheard her at first. She repeated herself, and reluctantly I obeyed. After, she started…

Why you should embrace uncertainty with confidence and raise a middle finger to comfort

BY: ROB HOFFMAN Back home it’s the weed, movies, senseless drinking and social media scrolling that try to pry away the crippling boredom. But they are all exhaustingly under-stimulating. You can’t get high enough to make the Internet worth it,…

A tribe in South Dakota is opening America’s first marijuana resort

BY: JESSICA BEUKER Back in June, the United States Department of Justice granted Indian tribes permission to grow and sell marijuana on Santee Sioux land in South Dakota. The Santee Sioux tribe operates a number of successful businesses including a…

Dispensaries are giving wildfire survivors free weed in Northern California

BY: TYLER FYFE Two Northern California dispensaries understand the trauma of watching your home and entire property rise in plumes of smoke. This why Care By Design and AbsoluteXtracts medical marijuana dispenseries are attempting to ease the burden of stress with…

I hiked to 10,000 ft. in the High Sierras, and found the mountain top was powdered with coke

BY: TYLER FYFE We came to a wood cabin, drawn like moths to the smothered glow of oil lamps in foggy window panes. We had hiked nearly blind through the night—measuring our progress by the sound of crunching gravel. When…

My first time hiding legally purchased weed from a California State Trooper went like this

BY: TYLER FYFE We were somewhere in Southern California speeding down the blacktop in a rental car when we saw the sirens of a State Trooper. We still had a brown paper bag full of the weed we had bought…

Take a peek inside this magical 1969 hippie tree house village in Hawaii

BY: CONNOR BRIAN At the edge of a long winding beach road, on the shaded jungle island of Kauai, sat a tiny village paradise where clothing was optional, weed was smoked openly, and where love and freedom were the only…

Weed-laced dog biscuits are relieving extreme pain in sick animals

BY: SWIKAR OLI While the thought of giving Rover a hit of something should make any pet owner scream blue murder (and rightfully so), there may be medical reasons to get some of our furry friends properly lit — well,…

The Italian military is growing pot to combat illness (Video)

M. TOMOSKI Somewhere in northern Italy, there is a warehouse full of drugs called the Florence Military Chemical-Pharmaceutical Plant. The secure site acts as the private pharmacy for the Italian armed forces, but it also helps thousands of citizens each…

Colorado’s first weedery will revolutionize the cannabis industry

BY: ZOE MELNYK It’s no surprise that Washington and Colorado have experienced a surge in tourism since legalizing marijuana, but the cannabis industry is about to encounter a whole new way to enjoy that blissful high with America’s first ever…