Don’t touch the suit – anything but the suit! It was the fall of 1966, and Ken Kesey decided the time had come to spruce up Furthur, the refurbished, multicolored school bus that he and his Merry Pranksters had been using for their famed road trips. In the barn at …
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As weed legalization sweeps across America, state election by state election, the popularity of cannabis products has kept pace. But while marijuana flower, tinctures, oils and more are all becoming commonplace, another, less talked-about product of the weed revolution is also blossoming: Weed porn. Streaming porn aggregation sites like Pornhub, …
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In 2016, Maine became one of the first states on the East Coast to approve a referendum that allowed for the legalization of recreational marijuana. While this was exciting at first, two years later Maine is still working at implementing a system that will allow them to tax and regulate …
Read More »Is the Porn Industry Doing Enough for Performers' Mental Health?
UPDATE: Adult performer Olivia Lua, who also went under the name Olivia Voltaire, was found dead this weekend in a rehab facility in California, making her the fifth porn performer to pass away in the past three months. *** When the Adult Video News Awards take place next weekend in …
Read More »Punk Poet Eileen Myles on Combating Trump, Capitalism With Art
Eileen Myles sits at a small café in the East Village, near the apartment they have called home for 40 years. Myles, who now prefers to use gender-neutral pronouns, explains that they know people who have been in the apartment building even longer. “There were people who came in in …
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