Weediquette: T. Kid on Tobacco
Tobacco field in Cuba. Photo via Wikimedia Commons As a pot smoker, it’s nice to see the country changing its mind on my drug of choice. Part of the transformation is practical—allowing medical use,...
View ArticleVICE Premiere: Stream Junglepussy’s Debut of ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’
The album cover of Satisfaction Guaranteed Early into the second song on Junglepussy’s excellent debut album Satisfaction Guaranteed, she raps, “How dope is this? Teach you how to grow and live.” The...
View ArticleWatch All Four Parts of 'INITIALS P.H.O.E.N.I.X.,' Our Doc About Phoenix's...
Watch All Four Parts of 'INITIALS P.H.O.E.N.I.X.,' Our Doc About Phoenix's Latest Record
View ArticleIs There Too Much THC in Colorado?
Photo via Flickr user MattysFlicks Last week, a 62-year-old woman visited Colorado, bought some marijuana candy, ate it in her hotel room, got way too high as a result, and penned an account of the...
View ArticleSweaty Photos from Detroit's Movement Festival
Photos from Movement 2014 by Lyndon French As a Detroit native, going to Movement has been a tradition of mine for the past ten years, but this was the first time I decided to document what happens...
View ArticleI Went to a Promise Ring Show and Took an Abstinence Pledge
Last month, I found myself among hundreds of awkward teenagers in a large auditorium in Cincinnati. If all were to go as planned, not a single soul in attendance would end up having sex before...
View ArticleVICE News: Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine - Part 47
Ukraine put an end to months of political chaos by swearing in a new president who vowed to restore the country's territorial integrity. Petro Poroshenko, a powerful oligarch before his election, will...
View ArticleHow Does a Child Turn into a Bank Robber?
Seventeen years ago, three teenagers in Houston, Texas, met in their high school parking lot, but they weren’t headed to class. They drove to a payphone, and Darius Clark Monroe, the leader of the...
View ArticleReno Is a Paradise
Reno is a Glitter Gulch—a 24-hour neon city hidden deep within Nevada’s vast mountainous desert. Once the gambling capital of the US, bursting with glitz and glamour that assured its prosperity and...
View ArticleWe Sent a Guy Who'd Never Heard Macklemore to See Him Live in Vegas
We Sent a Guy Who'd Never Heard Macklemore to See Him Live in Vegas
View ArticleThe Faces of #bringbackourgirls Aren't Their Faces at All
Image by Ami Vitale - Jenabu Balde rests her head inside the school in the remote village of Guinea Bissua. Most men coming from this conservative Muslim village of Fulani's believe the girls should...
View ArticleWord Is Starting to Spread About London's Death Cafes
Word Is Starting to Spread About London's Death Cafes
View ArticleI Helped Division I Athletes Cheat in College
Illustration by Sofya Levina People were outraged when basketball player Rashad McCants admitted on an episode of ESPN's Outside the Lines that student athletes pay tutors to write their term papers....
View ArticleVladimir Nabokov’s Unpublished ‘Lolita’ Screenplay Notes
Photo by Carl Mydans/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was first published in 1955, as part of the Paris-based Olympia Press Traveler’s Companion books, a series of...
View ArticlePeople Reviews
BEST FACE LIL POOPY Rapper/Child Male Seriously, have you ever seen a better rap name? This kid’s like ten, and he’s better at rap than at least all of Jurassic 5, times a bazillion. But it’s a major...
View ArticleThese Guys Faked a Wedding to Smuggle Refugees and Filmed It
Abdullah is a 30-year-old Palestinian from Syria with short black hair, a thin frame, and shadows under his eyes. Fleeing from the civil war, he boarded a small fishing boat heading to Lybia on the...
View ArticleA Funeral for Manuel, 32 Years After the Guatemalan Massacre That Killed Him
On May 14, 1982, Carmen Sánchez Chen left her three-year-old son, Manuel, with a neighbor as she went to bathe in Guatemala's Chixoy River. Two months had passed since Guatemalan soldiers and civil...
View ArticleFor $350, Tata Will Slap You Until You're Sexy
All photos by Toby Silverman When I arrived at Face Slapping International in San Francisco’s Richmond District, a young Thai couple dressed in eccentric outfits greeted me. The man wore a blazer with...
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