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Letter From the Editor
Roberto C. Hernandez Editor-in-Chief, CULTURE Cut to the Chase If CULTURE Magazine was a television show, which one would we be? Weeds? Too obvious. Cannabis Planet? Close . . . but not quite. That ’70s Show? Nope, we’re not really the lava lamp type. I’ve got it. CULTURE is like Entourage. No—really. Seriously. Let me explain. Back in April, as [...]
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5. August 2010
I don’t believe in destiny. In the Terminator flicks, I’d be Sarah Connor carving “No fate” on a picnic table. In Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, I’d be Keanu Reaves telling Rufus that no-way was my future already written. My apologies to H.G. Wells. [...]
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1. July 2010
To my mother, marijuana prohibition is as American as apple pie—and using marijuana is plain un-American. She was born in 1937, among that first generation of Americans who would never know a time when cannabis was legal. In school, she was indoctrinated in the belief that a single hit of pot—just one toke—could cause madness, suicide or murder [...]
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3. June 2010
Publishing a new magazine is, in many ways, an act of pathological hope. No matter how much hard work and market research and promotion you throw at your fledgling publication to make it a success, so many factors remain outside your control. The economy might worsen. Costs might increase. The competition might worsen. Costs might increase. The competition [...]
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6. May 2010
Steeling ourselves for the fight ahead A different vibe was in the air at this year’s THC Exposé at the Los Angeles Convention Center, which was odd because so much was the same as last year’s event. It was the same crowd—thousands upon thousands of cannabis lovers, medical-marijuana patients, caregivers and advocates—as at the 2009 show. Many [...]
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1. April 2010
Figuring out the origin of a fairly recent annual observance should be an easy thing to do, right? After all, it’s not like we’re talking about Valentine’s Day, of which all the original participants have been dead for 17 centuries. Surely, all one has to do to find out how it all began would be to run a few Google searches
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4. March 2010
The cost of medical cannabis—or, some would say, the high cost of it—has been getting a lot of attention in the media these days. Recent news reports have focused on the huge disparity in pot prices around the county, with some regions asking
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4. February 2010
February is Black History Month, and as a magazine devoted to the culture of the medical-cannabis community, we think this a good time to remember that the history of marijuana laws in America is intimately linked to our nation’s long record of oppression of its nonwhite citizenry.
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7. January 2010
With the economy still gasping like an old man crawling across a desert, it would be easy to dismiss 2009 as The Bad Year—the year for which nothing good could be said except that it’s over. But look closer. For the medical-marijuana community, at least, 2009 was actually was actually a lot
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3. December 2009
My wife has been knitting like a crazy woman since June, trying to finish up a mountain of hand-crafted garments so we can give them to our loved ones for Christmas. It’s a project she and I had agreed would show our family and friends how much we
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2. September 2010
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