Oscar Nominated 'CODA' Mixes Music and Medical Cannabis
It's been quite the awards season for Troy Kotsur, who plays pot-smoking fisherman Frank Rossi in "CODA." He won the Oscar for the film about a "Child of Deaf Adults."
It's been quite the awards season for Troy Kotsur, who plays pot-smoking fisherman Frank Rossi in "CODA." He won the Oscar for the film about a "Child of Deaf Adults."
The success of Season 2 of "Euphoria" relies on an addiction storyline seen in "Dopesick" and a number of recent movies and documentaries dealing with opioids in American life. The lead character Rue Bennett, a high schooler played by the dynamic Zendaya, is a classic dope fiend; she'll take anything – a pill, a line or a needle.
"South Park"'s savage mockery of of Colorado's cannabis industry continues with episode 2 ("The Big Fix") of Season 25. The new season picks up where Season 23 in 2019 left off when Randy launched his Tegridy Farms weed brand.
Director Ivan Reitman's death prompted us to find the famous deleted LSD scene in "Stripes" where Harold Ramis doses and Bill Murray declares, "You're going to be just fine in about 12 hours."
Episode 4 of "Secrets of Playboy" zeroes in on drug use at the mansion, especially in Chicago where Hugh Hefner's assistant Bobbie Arnstein was arrested for cocaine possession and then took her own life in the '70s. NORML's Keith Stroup, who calls Arnstein his "soulmate," is interviewed.