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Sideshow Podcast: High Maintenance: The Internet’s Best TV Show

Arts, Culture & Media

Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair don’t recall how the idea for High Maintenance came to them. Considering the show’s subject matter, that’s to be expected.

Marijuana is seen for sale at Harborside, one of California's largest and oldest dispensaries of medical marijuana, on the first day of legalized recreational marijuana sales in Oakland, California, U.S. January 1, 2018.

Pot may be legal in California but noncitizens still have cause for worry

Justice
An Albanian state police officer holds a piece of freshly cut cannabis near the town of Kruja. Most of the pot produced in Albania is grown outdoors, on public land. Growers take advantage of the country’s Mediterranean climate and mountainous terrain.

Riding along with Albania’s pot police

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You get your soda from a vending machine, so why not your medical marijuana?

Health & Medicine
The World

You get your soda from a vending machine, so why not your medical marijuana?

Health & Medicine
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Group Protests ‘Demonization’ of Pot by Planting Marijuana Seeds All Over German Town

Conflict & Justice

Our Geo Quiz heads to a German university town that’s in full bloom these days. Marijuana plants have sprouted up all over the town, courtesy of an anonymous group that calls itself, A Few Autonomous Flower Children.

Coffeehouses Oppose Dutch Government’s New ‘Weed Passes’

The era of Dutch tolerance of marijuana use may be going up in smoke. The Dutch government will soon issue “weed passes ” to a limited number of Dutch residents wishing to score pot in traditional coffeehouses. The new law’s intended to keep away “drug tourists” but coffeehouse owners say the law’s unfair and will […]

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