Big Pothead vs. Big Pot
In what will likely be his last political act, Willie Nelson declares war on corporate marijuana.
In what will likely be his last political act, Willie Nelson declares war on corporate marijuana.
Wil S. Hylton New York Nov 2015 25min Permalink
Everything that happened before former NBA star Lamar Odom suffered multiple strokes on the floor of a Pahrump brothel.
Ramona Shelburne ESPN Oct 2015 15min Permalink
A band's tour problems range from bedbugs to internal strife.
Leah Christianson Sundog Lit Sep 2015 20min Permalink
An Alabama woman took the equivalent of one Valium during her pregnancy. A few weeks after she gave birth, she became one of more than 1,800 new and expecting mothers arrested under the state’s chemical endangerment law.
Nina Martin ProPublica Sep 2015 40min Permalink
A long talk with Willie Nelson about pot.
Chris Heath GQ Aug 2015 25min Permalink
“Super tunnels” are a speciality of the Sinaloa drug cartel – and its leader, El Chapo.
Monte Reel New Yorker Aug 2015 20min Permalink
When all else failed, he commandeered a bus, and saved his neighbors. Now he’s in prison.
Joel D. Anderson Buzzfeed Jul 2015 20min Permalink
An eviction notice causes a grotesque chain of events.
"Imogene grunted as she lifted the sledgehammer and again brought it down. She missed the knob and graced the door, taking some of the siding off it. She bent down and thrust the hammer at the spot. The wood gave away."
Garret Schuelke Revolution John Jul 2015 10min Permalink
A drug derived from cannabis was the only thing that could control a young boy’s seizures.
Fred Vogelstein Wired Jul 2015 Permalink
A pizza deliverer/calculus whiz becomes involved in the lives of two unstable college students.
"I licked my thumb, outside, by the car, and ran it over the suction cups, before I slapped the marquee to the top of my cobalt blue Toyota. The pizzas were already sitting in the passenger seat, cardboard mouths smiling. I was conscious, despite Walter’s assertion, that I was operating under the tick of a clock, an invisible, indefinite deadline. Really, we all are. But no one realizes how soon it’s coming."
Benjamin Harnett Pithead Chapel Jun 2015 15min Permalink
How a traveling medical technician managed to steal narcotics from hospitals, infecting at least 45 people with hepatitis C in the process.
Kurt Eichenwald Newsweek Jun 2015 Permalink
The difficulty of catching a “cocaine trafficker with his hands on the country’s levers of power.”
Kyle Swenson New Times Broward-Palm Beach May 2015 20min Permalink
A story of growth, regression, and divergent paths.
"But mostly, Joan sat for hours in her favorite spot of their old living room couch where she breastfed Phil. It felt sometimes like he was resting in the crook of her arm. And other times, her breasts would drip milk and she’d sit with a throbbing ache in her chest. Her husband returned twice a week, a different person each time as if trying on new identities: laughing, angry, sedate, stoic. Sometimes he brought the rocks with him. Sometimes Joan would have to go out on her own looking for them."
Rion Amilcar Scott Literary Orphans May 2015 25min Permalink
In an upscale Denver condo, twice-a-month they convened from Thursday to Sunday with 95 percent-pure Shabu.
David Holthouse Westword Sep 2003 20min Permalink
First they found his server, then they found his name. But if they couldn’t catch him with his laptop open, the whole thing would fall apart.
Joshuah Bearman Wired May 2015 15min Permalink
The death of one Nevada man in a chaotic, unregulated, and expensive industry.
John Hill Mother Jones May 2015 15min Permalink
A steep discount on pharmaceutical drugs leads to a mass-murder case.
Kurt Eichenwald Newsweek Apr 2015 Permalink
Arthur Mondella took over his family’s maraschino cherry business reluctantly. But once he had it, he started a second enterprise. Behind an unmarked roll-down gate, behind some of his prized luxury cars, behind a pair of closet doors, behind a set of button-controlled shelves, behind a fake wall and down a ladder in a hole in the floor, Mondella built a 2,500-square-foot marijuana factory. When the police finally found it, he shot himself.
Vivian Yee New York Times May 2015 10min Permalink
Inside the world of “Wooks,” the loner-craftsmen behind the coming marijuana-concentrate boom.
Mike Sager California Sunday Apr 2015 Permalink
Everyone just wants to know if he’s going to the football game.
Jason Smith Matter Apr 2015 25min Permalink
Doug Dodd was a drug kingpin in high school. And now, like the narrator of a Scorcese film, he wants to tell his own story.
Guy Lawson Rolling Stone Apr 2015 30min Permalink
A man in Puerto Rico stumbles on a brick of cocaine, and rather than sell it he decides to bury it. Others, hearing his story, cook up a plan to retrieve it.
Daniel Riley GQ Mar 2015 Permalink
The drugs did not entirely deliver on their promise of anxiety reduction.
Conor Creighton Vice Mar 2015 15min Permalink
The long arm of the DEA reaches into Liberia to bust a cocaine trafficker.
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee The Guardian Mar 2015 20min Permalink
He was a fixture in the kitchen of one of Seattle’s most celebrated restaurants, with plans to move to New York City to further his career. Then he robbed a bank.
Allecia Vermillion Seattle Met Mar 2015 20min Permalink