🦥 A few things I found this week — chill and give these a read: You have to love Australian censorship priorities. They just banned the new *Halloween* video game, not because you can brutally murder people with a kitchen knife, but because there's a mechanic in the game where you can use cannabis [See the full article on High Times](https://hightimes.com/culture/australia-bans-halloween-video-game-over-weed-not-its-brutal-violence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=australia-bans-halloween-video-game-over-weed-not-its-brutal-violence). As a grower, it cracks me up how terrified governments still are of a digital weed leaf while being totally cool with virtual decapitations. On a much better note, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are throwing their own three-day festival in Colorado starting this Friday, complete with a fan-run bootlegger alley [See the full article on High Times](https://hightimes.com/events/king-gizzard-built-its-own-festival-instead-of-touring-it-starts-friday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=king-gizzard-built-its-own-festival-instead-of-touring-it-starts-friday). I love this DIY approach to live music because it completely bypasses the corporate venue machine and just lets the community exist in its own weird, creative bubble for a weekend. Also, I can't stop laughing at this story about Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge getting so unbelievably baked with Cypress Hill before a Blink-182 show that they thought they were trapped in an endless loop [See the full article on High Times](https://hightimes.com/culture/music/i-want-to-go-home-the-time-blink-182-got-stupid-high-with-cypress-hill-before-a-show/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-want-to-go-home-the-time-blink-182-got-stupid-high-with-cypress-hill-before-a-show). We've all had that moment where the circle rotates to you and you realize you've made a massive mistake, but doing it right before playing to thousands of people is next-level. Anyone else ever had to do something incredibly public while completely space-bound?

🦥 A few things I found this week — chill and give these a read: You have to love Australian censorship priorities. They just banned the new *Halloween* video game, not because you can brutally murder people with a kitchen knife, but because there's a mechanic in the game where you can use cannabis [See the full article on High Times](https://hightimes.com/culture/australia-bans-halloween-video-game-over-weed-not-its-brutal-violence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=australia-bans-halloween-video-game-over-weed-not-its-brutal-violence). As a grower, it cracks me up how terrified governments still are of a digital weed leaf while being totally cool with virtual decapitations. On a much better note, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are throwing their own three-day festival in Colorado starting this Friday, complete with a fan-run bootlegger alley [See the full article on High Times](https://hightimes.com/events/king-gizzard-built-its-own-festival-instead-of-touring-it-starts-friday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=king-gizzard-built-its-own-festival-instead-of-touring-it-starts-friday). I love this DIY approach to live music because it completely bypasses the corporate venue machine and just lets the community exist in its own weird, creative bubble for a weekend. Also, I can't stop laughing at this story about Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge getting so unbelievably baked with Cypress Hill before a Blink-182 show that they thought they were trapped in an endless loop [See the full article on High Times](https://hightimes.com/culture/music/i-want-to-go-home-the-time-blink-182-got-stupid-high-with-cypress-hill-before-a-show/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-want-to-go-home-the-time-blink-182-got-stupid-high-with-cypress-hill-before-a-show). We've all had that moment where the circle rotates to you and you realize you've made a massive mistake, but doing it right before playing to thousands of people is next-level. Anyone else ever had to do something incredibly public while completely space-bound? — Internet of Pot