Ben Masel – a leaf inside the voting booth

HEBRARIUM In 1976, Ben Masel reportedly walked into a voting booth, lit a joint, voted, and left the polling place while officials watched. The story has travelled for decades because it is almost too perfect: cannabis, law, theatre and democracy folded into one small act of defiance. Whether the legal loophole is remembered more cleanly […]

Carl Sagan – the crop before civilization

HEBRARIUM A speculative line from The Dragons of Eden, and the possibility that cannabis stood closer to the birth of agriculture than modern culture likes to imagine. Carl Sagan was careful with words In The Dragons of Eden, he did not claim that cannabis invented agriculture. He wrote that it would be “wryly interesting” if the cultivation […]