Weed Archives

Breaking Bad in College: When I “Interned” With a Weed Dealer

While my classmates were starting out as interns, I was learning how to run a business through a very different kind of on-the-job training. My college drug dealer gave me an education most people pay good money to business schools to learn.

Aryan Malhotra July 30, 2016

Pop Culture

From Reverence to Reefer Madness: The Journey of Weed

How did a drug that was once touted “food of the Gods” become associated with the guy who never showers and listens to “Satanic music”?

#VALUE! June 18, 2016

Culture

The Half-Baked Marijuana Legalisation March & Mumbai’s Missing Stoners

You might have ignored that guy you saw in harem pants one day, but marijuana users are everywhere. So why does no one turn up for the legalisation rallies?

Aditya Bhalla June 10, 2016

POV

Crime and Punishment for the Stoner Soul

I’m always marked out by the cops as a prime suspect on their “drug-addict eradication mission,” because I weigh a grand total of little more than my backpack, and my hair defies Newtonian laws of gravity.

Aryan Malhotra May 25, 2016

Pop Culture

Make Way for the Corporate Stoner

If weed is legalised in India, corporates won’t waste time jumping in. And we’d have ads with jingles like: “Reliance Number Ek Maal, Sirf 4,000 Rupay Mein!”

#VALUE! May 20, 2016

Vice

All Dealers Great And Small

The array of dope peddlers in this country will always surprise you, and remind you that you don’t have to be a menacing drug kingpin to make it as a seller.

Aditya Bhalla May 5, 2016

Vice

Dum Mein Gham: How I Survive as a Non-Stoner in a World Full of Potheads

Why are stoners in our beautiful country always enthusiastic about getting you to try their maal? I honestly have no idea what a Rizla is, and at this point, I am just too afraid to ask.

Jackie Thakkar May 4, 2016

Pop Culture

Hey Potheads, Leave the Food Alone

Stoners bug me because they eat everything. They open the fridge, and they start polishing off all its contents – even the salt and pepper and half-cut nimbu and salad dressing.