Chris Blackwell devotes about 30 pages of his memoir, "The Islander," to Bob Marley, who he signed to Island Records in 1972. Blackwell loved Bob, but didn't get along with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer. "He was was clearly the leader," the 85-year-old record exec says.
Now that Erykah Badu has entered the cannabis industry with a new strain in association with Cookies, comments she made previously about Hitler have come to light.
While watching Alexandra Pelosi's gripping documentary about her mother Nancy, "Pelosi in the House." on HBO, I flashed back to when I met Alexandra more than two decades ago at SXSW.
We hand out 16 awards for the stoniest movies and scenes of 2022.
Rapper Wiz Khalifa teamed up with Trulieve in Florida and now in Pennsylvania where he's visiting several dispensaries in his hometown Pittsburgh today on a day in his honor.
Robert Downey Sr. admitted in the past that he got his son stoned on pot as young as six years old. In his compelling documentary "Sr." on Netflix, Robert Downey Jr. digs deeper, connecting his father's habit to his own, which led to arrests, jail and now a sober life.
The U.S. has negotiated a prisoner swap that released WNBA star Brittney Griner from a Russian penal colony today. Griner was arrested there in February for possessing cannabis, convicted in August and sent to the colony in October.
While New York State's Office of Cannabis Management recently issued the first 36 retail permits, New York City's illicit market is growing by leaps and bounds. OCM director Chris Alexander admits the state has an "uphill battle" to shut it down.
Our 2022 list includes Berner, Brittney Griner, Willie Nelson, Cookies, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Woody Harrelson, Cypress Hill, Chelsea Handler, Joe Biden, Olivia Newton-John, The Young Jerks, 311, "Growing Belushi," mushrooms and more.
Luka Oleksyshyn's "High Landz" is the antidote to "Murder Mountain," the exploitative 2019 Netflix series about mayhem in California's Emerald Triangle where the best marijuana in the U.S. is traditionally grown. Oleksyshyn, who's Ukrainian, brings a fresh approach to this belabored subject.
