At a time when corporate interests control the music industry, indie promoter Peter Shapiro is an anomaly. He'd rather do things on his own terms. Shapiro tells all about "putting on 10,000 shows" in his memoir, "The Music Never Stops."
The first episode of Netflix's four-part psychedelics series "How to Change Your Mind," based on Michael Pollan's book, is about LSD. It's the first psychedelic drug I ever took. Check out my "Flashback" story.
You won't hear much talk about baseball's cocaine scandal of 1985 as Keith Hernandez's number 17 is being retired by the Mets on July 9. The first basemen testified he'd used "massive amounts of cocaine" while with the Cardinals.
Asked on stage at the CWCBExpo in New York on June 3 why he doesn't have his own cannabis brand, Redman praised fellow rappers Method Man and Wiz Khalifa who do, but stopped short of Jay-Z, saying he's "never promoted smoking cannabis on anything."
"It's really quite safe," comic genius George Carlin says about cannabis in the HBO documentary, "George Carlin's American Dream." "It's going to be part of the future of this country," he predicted. "It's part of our culture."
