“My goal is to do something outrageous every day.” – Maggie Kuhn Recently-retired Maggie Kuhn was impassioned, and probably pissed off, when her employers forced her to quit at an age she considered thriving. The 65-year-old refused to disappear into weekly Bingo games and afternoons soap operas. Instead, she became an activist, publicly protested ageism […]
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A World Tour of Weed: The Trending Legalizatin of Marijuana, Part Two
Traveling through Southeast Asia, backpackers are often stopped by vendors selling hand-made jewelry, cold beverages and reprinted paperback books. But because my travel companion’s lower face was covered in a massive beard, and the curls on his head had nearly grown to shoulder length, we were stopped constantly and asked to buy pot.”Hey, you smoke?” […]
A World Tour of Weed: The Trending Legalization of Marijuana
I once heard a backpacker refer to weed as the Mastercard of travel: “It’s everywhere you want to be.” In Germany, you can carry up to 6 grams; in Columbia, anything under 20 grams will keep you out of jail; and in North Korea, no one’s counting either way. The legalization of marijuana around the […]