The earliest mention of marijuana I could find in The Atlantic’s pages was from “I Like Bad Boys,” an immersive essay from November 1939 in which J. M. Braude profiles working-class adolescents caught ...

Smoking is the most common way to consume marijuana, and there are different methods to do it. Some of them are joints, which are rolling papers filled with marijuana; spliffs, which are rolling ...

The essay also spends ample time attacking the prevailing myths that surround marijuana discourse, arguing that cannabis is not a proven gateway drug to harder narcotics, and that its ...