🦥 A few things I found this week — chill and give these a read:
Man, you have to read Steve DeAngelo’s story about how the actual weed he smuggled back in 1974 kept mysteriously popping up in the very first High Times centerfolds [See the full article on High Times](https://hightimes.com/culture/the-weed-i-smuggled-in-1974-kept-showing-up-in-high-times-centerfolds-it-took-me-a-year-to-figure-out-why/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-weed-i-smuggled-in-1974-kept-showing-up-in-high-times-centerfolds-it-took-me-a-year-to-figure-out-why). He was just a twenty-year-old kid settling a debt at the Yippie headquarters in New York right when the first boxes of the magazine ever delivered arrived, and it took him a whole year to connect the dots. As a grower, this absolutely blew my mind because we always wonder where those legendary, foundational legacy strains actually originated, and hearing about the literal physical paper trail of 70s smuggling history is just wild.
On a completely different note, I was reading about how new research into pelvic pain and reproductive health is finally making a serious case for cannabis as women's medicine [See the full article on High Times](https://hightimes.com/women/cannabis-research-womens-health-pain-pleasure/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cannabis-research-womens-health-pain-pleasure). It’s about time we get some real, focused science on this instead of just relying on anecdotal word-of-mouth advice. Honestly, seeing plant medicine get backed up by actual clinical studies for targeted pain relief makes me incredibly optimistic about where the culture is heading.
What's the craziest piece of cannabis history you've ever stumbled across? — Internet of Pot