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Marvel Movie Guide for Stoners
Who doesn’t smoke weed these days? It is very popular and people are enjoying their Mary Jane daily. Walk the streets of NYC and try not to smell it for 10 blocks. With all the stresses in people's lives, smoking some weed and getting high calms people down. You can sit on the couch for hours without even knowing how much time has passed. A big part of being high is the state of apathy that occurs and watching a movie while high is always a blast, except if it is a horror film. Don’t watch Sinister while high... trust me. Another one to stay away from is Playtest and the Black bear on Black Mirror.
By David Lasher7 years ago in Potent
A Look at Weed: Want or Need?
In talking about the controversies around cannabis, I am going to put myself out there and be as vulnerable, honest, and direct as possible. As a teenager, I began experimenting with pot at the age of 17 against my own better judgment. I was weary of all substances, including pot and alcohol but a cocktail of factors lead to taking that first toke. Peer pressure and curiosity seemed surprisingly overpowering, and I quickly found myself imbibing in a purple haze more often than was healthy.
By Michael Thielmann7 years ago in Potent
Movies Everyone Thinks Were Made While High (But Weren't)
You ever watch a movie, and ask yourself how high the director had to be to make a film like this? Well, what if I informed you that, perhaps, the director wasn't on anything at all? What if I informed you that, maybe, the director made that surreal, strange film without the aid of any chemicals at all?
By Anthony Gramuglia7 years ago in Potent
Vigilantes Are Outing Cocaine Narcs Using Billboards
Narcs may just be some of the most hated people in the underworld. They're the people who pretend to befriend dealers, then turn around and tell the police all the details about how drug deals are going on around them. Being a narc may get you out of a conviction, but it also can get you killed.
By Mackenzie Z. Kennedy7 years ago in Potent
Stoner Metal Bands You Need to Listen to
The metal lifestyle is all about breaking the taboo, of indulgence and vivacity--so it only makes sense that stoner metal bands are so successful. While it may be hard to pin down stoner metal as a subgenre, it is easy to see what music is influenced by cannabis by reading up on the bands behind the scenes.
By Ray Shikinami7 years ago in Potent
Watch Me Delightfully and Diligently Debunk 5 Marijuana Myths
I use cannabis to jump-start my creativity, have for many years. It helps silence my critical voice. And sometimes, if I’m lucky, I’m able to connect the dots in a different way – achieve a creative breakthrough or insight.
By Michael Lawson7 years ago in Potent
History of Sherlock Holmes' Pipe
Neither kith nor kin will turn down a bowl when you flash a classy, well curved glass "Sherlock" pipe coupled with some fine medical greenery. Most of America is controlled by money and pharmaceuticals, and fails to notice the obvious, smoking marijuana is for the introspective, the thoughtful, and for those who are searching for answers to the mystery of life. So why not smoke like the most famous detective, real or imagined, in history? Though Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle's books portrayed his literary Sherlock Holmes puffing tobacco out of various pipe styles, his legendary character is usually portrayed smoking what is referred to as a calabash pipe. There is much wisdom in Doyle's words often believed to be a direct result of what was in his pipe.
By Randy Cobern7 years ago in Potent
Author Believes Marijuana Legalization Should Proceed Carefully
Marijuana legalization can engender an image of the drug’s laid back disciples who will tend their little plots around daily smokes circles, while lamenting the loss of the counterculture. Then waiting to exhale just after 4:20 p.m. every day, plenty of time shall be left to bag their haul to a local retailer who’s eager to dispense peace and contentment, as both remember to stick it to the man for old time’s sake. That is just one of the marijuana myths author Kevin Sabet was trying to dispel for students, staff and law enforcement this Thursday at Fox Lane High School as the nation seems poised to enact a retail sale legalization of marijuana.
By Rich Monetti7 years ago in Potent
Best Stoner Reggae Songs
When it comes to stoners, one stereotype is that they love reggae. Perhaps that's just because there is nothing better to listen to while high than a good reggae song. The rhythm is enough to pull you into another world filled with beautiful songs—yet all of them are familiar sounding enough to sometimes trick outsiders into thinking they're all cut from the same cloth. All fairly similar.
By Ray Shikinami7 years ago in Potent
Literature and Marijuana: Counter-Culture History Through the Years. Top Story - March 2017.
America's literary counter-culture movement began after the Mexican Revolution in 1910, when those to our South came northward, and, in turn, brought their natural relaxant with them: marijuana. Granted, the counter-culture had begun to start over in Europe long before America joined in on the fun. James Joyce had already kicked off the modernist movement with Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, a novel that deliberately broke every established rule of literature.
By Anthony Gramuglia7 years ago in Potent
Old Stoner Stereotypes That Are Fading (and Why)
Stoner stereotypes have existed since the beginning of the subculture. Back in the early 30s, Reefer Madness forewarned that, if you smoked pot, you—yes, you, straight-laced perfect child—will turn into a bloodthirsty serial killer who might, without provocation, throw a baby out a window or stab people...
By Shinji Kazuma7 years ago in Potent