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Week on Week: The VICE India Mixtape
Songs for the week, throwing in a mix of new releases and some #throwbacks too—everything from homegrown hip-hop to Bollywood (uh-no?) and K-pop—we gotchyu.
Rank Your Records: Lagwagon's Joey Cape Rates 25 Years Of Melodic Punk Classics (and Also ‘Duh’)
Let's talk about Lagwagon.
Santa Claus Was a Shroom-Tripping Shaman
I was inspired to make a holiday weed feast after finding out that Santa Claus's surprising origins include psychedelic mushrooms, reindeer piss, and shamanism.
The Cannabis Republic of Uruguay
VICE correspondent Krishna Andavolu heads over to Uruguay to see how the country is adjusting to a legally regulated marijuana market.
These Drugs Were Scripts Before They Hit the Streets
Hamilton Morris recently investigated how an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV became part of a drug epidemic. Here's some other drugs that can still be...
World Cannabis Week: Big Marijuana Industry Show
Before long, 80% of the companies here will be out of business, but right now you can see them all swinging for the fences.
Jamaican Bud Business
Jamaica's first medicinal marijuana company, Medicanja, launched this year against a backdrop of reinvigorated debate around ganja law reform among leading policymakers.
Swazi Gold
Hamilton Morris travels to Swaziland hoping to chemically analyze the cannabinoids present in some of the local strains. Instead, he finds a country steeped in political corruption and economic turmoil.
Stoned Kids
We went to the small town of Pendleton, Oregon, to visit Mykayla Comstock, an eight-year-old leukemia patient who takes massive amounts of weed to treat her illness.
Hunting for Colombia's Rarest Weed Strains
You might not know who Arjan Roskam is, but you've probably smoked his weed.