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In Mexico, native healers known as the curanderos used cannabis, or pipiltzintzintli, in their practice to treat a variety of conditions. The shamans believed there was a correlation between medicinal plants and divine spirits, a notion that didn’t sit well with the Spanish church. “Towards the end of the 17th …

This column is a collaboration with Honeysuckle, a print and digital and media house emphasizing diverse voices and high visual impact. It’s impossible to address the state of Black brands in cannabis without addressing the cruel and unjust impact of the War on Drugs in the United States. The criminalization …

Over the past year, there has been a dramatic shift in the amount of space vaccines occupy in the public consciousness. During the development and testing of the current Covid-19 vaccines, people followed the different phases of the clinical trials like an early season of American Idol. In fact, many …

UPDATE (4/14, 6:15 p.m. ET): The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) held an emergency meeting today to discuss the safety concerns associated with the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine. While the meeting didn’t end with recommendations for a specific course of action — other than continuing the pause …

DMX‘s first foray into major-label hip-hop was a failure. In the early 1990s, he released “Born Loser,” a loping anti-anthem for the down-and-out: “Even when I was little, nothing went my way/I got beat up and chased home from school every day,” DMX rapped. The single’s tone turns defiant — …

UPDATE: Loki has pushed its release date up two days to June 9th, with subsequent episodes to air Wednesdays instead of Fridays: Disney and Marvel Studio have released a new trailer for Loki, the upcoming series centered around Thor’s mischievous brother, set to premiere June 11th on Disney+. Loki is …

Matt Gaetz has had a rough week. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the Florida congressman, who made a name for himself as one of former President Trump’s most visible advocates in Congress, is under federal investigation for a possible sexual relationship with a 17-year-old. The report was …

QAnon is a baseless conspiracy theory predicated on the idea that the government is run by a cabal of sex-trafficking pedophiles. It stands to reason that adherents might feel a little vindicated — celebratory, even — when news breaks that a prominent politician is under investigation for sex trafficking. Such …

There is typecasting, and then there is Cristin Milioti‘s career the last few years, where she has repeatedly been hired to play strong-willed women trapped by some useless dude in a science-fiction nightmare. First there was “U.S.S. Callister,” her fantastic episode of Black Mirror, where she found herself uploaded into …

Waxahatchee is celebrating the one-year anniversary of her critically acclaimed albumSaint Cloud with a new deluxe version, featuring three covers. The track list boasts renditions of Lucinda Williams’ “Fruits of My Labor” (which she performed live during her 2017-2018 Out in the Storm tour), Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Philadelphia,” and …