“Hey Tommy!” is a phrase one will hear many shoppers say to the cashier at Tommy’s Value on a typical afternoon. Located at 47 Mount Auburn St., this family-run market has become a community staple in an area that lacks convenience stores, serving students and Cambridge locals alike since 2002. Though it briefly shuttered during […]
In June 2024, the NCAA voted to remove marijuana from its list of banned substances for student-athletes across all divisions. Following the removal of the same ban in the NBA, this rule change was a significant shift for the athlete community, who are no longer subject to season-long suspensions for a positive test. Additionally, this […]
The implications of using medical marijuana as an alternative to prescription drugs are certainly not a new discussion topic. “We’ve been using cannabis for 5,000 years,” Harvard Medical School instructor and medical cannabis specialist Dr. Peter Grinspoon pointed out in an interview with the Harvard Independent. “If you look at the big picture in human […]
A FaceTime session with someone desperately trying to win you back? Prime time to hit them with the real questions—like who’s in their NFL dream blunt rotation. Bonus points if you still remember their favorite team and casually toss in a token player to keep them wrapped around your finger. With this in mind, we […]
Note: To protect their privacy, the students referenced throughout the article wished to be anonymous. They are instead referred to by the pseudonyms “Ben” or “Mary.” “An addict, any addict, can stop using drugs, lose the desire to use, and find a new way to live,” reads the motto of Narcotics Anonymous, a nonprofit founded […]
I smoked for the first time my sophomore year of high school. Smoke might be generous—I took a few puffs off my crush’s gas station cart before she ditched me for a Zoom therapy appointment, leaving me to watch “The Office” with her best friend (whom I had just met, and was incidentally drop-dead gorgeous). […]
“It is just like any other farming,” I often tell people when I mention that I was brought up growing marijuana. Depending on where my listeners are from, that tends to get a mixed reaction. So let me clarify from the jump: I didn’t grow weed by myself, my family wasn’t running a commercial-scale operation, […]
I started my Yardfest day slinging back mimosas and Coronas bright and early. The goal was simple: pace myself so I could reach my peak—both drunk and high—at precisely 7 p.m., when Natasha Bedingfield would finally grace us with her beautiful British presence. Contrary to the title of this article, I had a plan, and […]
In a dimly lit Eliot dormitory that doubled as an arena of absurdity, a cadre of unconventional knights gathered at their makeshift round table to challenge a gargantuan dragon that loomed over their consciousness—a beast as enigmatic as any myth. The knights readied their chalice—a crystal-clear, single-chamber bong bestowed upon them by Merlin, the very […]