Open Minds Open The World

For as long as we can remember, we've had the feeling that there is too much happening around us. The truth is that most of it is noise. We know how a majority of the universe is composed of dark matter. Meaning, to say that a healthy part of the universe is composed of nothing. …

Network-States to Complement Nation-States

It has been decided that the entire team behind this small blog will dedicate the upcoming decade towards realizing its cherished vision of building one hundred network states. Before we go ahead, what exactly is a network-state in the first place? A network-state is a decentralized collective of individuals from across the world who co-ordinate …

Cannabis and Crypto Lover

Sins had been able to source legal edibles last week. There had been too much 'concern' about 'drugs' in the national media from time to time, over the entirety of 2021. Why exactly were the masses 'concerned' with consciousness altering substances, he did not quite understand. Claims of 'immorality' and 'lack of culture' did not …

The Free Market Air Blows On Towards Cannabis

Source: Marijuana Moment The Great March of Policy When will Cannabis exit the 'bad drug' category permanently when it comes to the legal area? In reality, while thousands already live in an inevitable future where cannabis is completely decontrolled and the 'war on drugs' never happened; its the 'mainstream system' whose acceptance about human psychology, …

Tripping on Cannabis Law. As Always.

Boomtown Welcome to the 16th edition of Boomtown. If you’re reading this for the first time, welcome to Boomtown. We’re tripping as usual and it's another Saturday, another weekend to blaze ourselves to splits, while laughing at the world around us amidst a pile of emotions that range from one extreme to another, encompassing things …

Distractions, Cannabis Consultations and DIY Research

The Kush Hello and Welcome to the 27th edition of The Kush. If you’re reading this for the first time, then welcome. It's the second day of another new week and we couldn’t have been more trippier than we already are. Revolt, revolt against the thoughts that border on mediocrity, the mundane and the monotonous. …

Tripping on the ‘System’ and Blazing for Lebanon’s Cannabis

The Kush Hi! Welcome to the 21st edition of The Kush, our newsletter written specifically for Mondays and Tuesdays. If you’re reading this for the first time, then welcome. It's another Monday and the 19th of October has dawned wet and cold in Bengaluru, where we are sitting out of, as of this writing. The …

Tripping on VR, Politics and Finance

Gloria Indica Hi! Welcome to the 20th edition of Gloria Indica, our newsletter written specifically for Wednesdays and Thursdays. If you’re reading this for the first time, then welcome. This is our newsletter when we tend to focus a bit more on the cannabis, business and technology narratives blazing across the world of ours today. …

Tripping Across Mexico, Delhi High Court and Odisha

Gloria Indica Hi! Welcome to the 19th edition of Gloria Indica, our newsletter written specifically for Wednesdays and Thursdays. If you’re reading this for the first time, then welcome. This is our newsletter when we tend to focus a bit more on the cannabis, business and technology narratives blazing across the world of ours today. …

France, New Zealand and Odisha’s Trysts With Bad Luck and Cannabis

The Kush Hi! Welcome to the 18th edition of The Kush, our newsletter written specifically for Mondays and Tuesdays. If you’re reading this for the first time, then welcome. It's Tuesday, and we’re tripping as usual, for remember, all days are the same. Let’s not give too much importance to the names of the days, …

Tripping, Blazing On Cannabis and Power

The Kush Hi! Welcome to the 17th edition of The Kush, our newsletter written specifically for Mondays and Tuesdays. If you’re reading this for the first time, then welcome. Today, we’re going to talk only about one thing: Power. Or rather, try to trip on understanding the nature of Power and then start blazing up …

German Medical Cannabis and the Blazing Mukesh Ambani

Gloria Indica Hi! Welcome to the 15th edition of Gloria Indica, our newsletter written specifically for Wednesdays and Thursdays. If you’re reading this for the first time, then welcome. Wherever you’re from, whenever you’ll read this, this is our newsletter when we train our eyes a bit more specifically to the cannabis, business and technology …

Tripping on Cannabis, Economics and Politics

The Kush Hi! Welcome to the 15th edition of The Kush, our newsletter written specifically for Mondays and Tuesdays. If you’re reading this for the first time, then welcome. The aim of all our newsletters is to bring as much clarity as possible about the world we’re living in, for the well-being of our readers. …

Predicting the Future for Indian Cannabis, while taking a stand for Women

Boomtown Hi! Welcome to the 7th edition of Boomtown, our newsletter written and published every Friday at exactly 4:20 p.m. If you’re reading this for the first time, then welcome. As of this writing, not only are we completely blazed out of our minds, we’ve also come to the mundane realization that we’re an odd …

The Quick Introduction to Modern Pot Politics

Boomtown Hi! Welcome to the 6th edition of Boomtown, our newsletter written and published every Friday at exactly 4:20 p.m. If you’re reading this for the first time, then welcome. As of this writing, not only are we completely blazed out of our minds, it also feels as if the cold coffees on our desks …

Payments, China and Mining

Boomtown Hi! Welcome to the 1st edition of Boomtown, our newsletter written and published every week on Friday at exactly 4:20 p.m. A Boomtown is, as per mainstream definition a place where rapid economic progress often clashes with existing socio-politico structures to lay down the foundation of a new way of living, working and earning. …

What Do You Believe In?

They looked at each other and waved, their brief interaction lasting for exactly two seconds, while his mind went on to dwell upon the brief memory for another twenty, punctuated in between by flashes of images which resembled her face plastered on walls and other shapes like buildings and alleyways. He felt so drowsy that …

The Government In His Dreams

Sins felt sick as he introspected the political climate of his country currently, and wasn't surprised. Increasingly, day after day, month after month, and now four years past the installment of a political party of nincompoops to the highest seats of power in the country, hate, violence and misogyny, coupled with a sense of dismay …

The Rant of A Gentleman

Words couldn't describe Malcolm's state of mind. It wasn't shock. It wasn't angst, or sorrow or agony or any of the usual synonyms for occasions which caused distress, but rather a mixture of hate and peculiarity mired with a weird sense of confusion. His opposite numbers, two men and a woman he had been having …

The Dreams of Lord Sins

Sins hadn't seen a dream in weeks, and for some reason this fact bothered him because he believed dreams carried secret messages conveyed from his soul to his conscious, thinking self, his mind. Dreams were fascinating, they were like a puzzle, a riddle to solve, by associating images together through whatever logic possible, and most …

Bitter Bar

"Anarchy. Disarray. This is the world today", a drunk Sins told the woman he had met at the bar an hour back. The woman stared at him in slight amusement. The conversation had taken an interesting turn a couple of minutes back, morphing into the behaviour of the society that they were a part of, …

Educated, Privileged and Elite

Sins stayed in a bungalow. It had been bought by his grandfather twenty-five years ago, and was twenty kilometres from the outskirts of the main city. Sins was brought up here. His childhood was happy and gay, as he would frolic from one part of the house to another, ending in the vacant plot of …

Question Haters

A full three hours of restlessness and irritation enusued as Sins stood in line to register his personal details, as part of the largest identification drive program in the world. The purpose of the exercise was to lock his biometric data through his fingerprint and link it to his personal data, permanently, as claimed by …

Supreme Manager

When it came to cribbing about all the ills prevalent in his nation, Malcolm was the undisputed master. For him, problems existed for two reasons only - Greed and Selfishness, the quality to successfully turn a blind eye to the suffering of millions not just in his nation, but even worldwide. The fact was, the …

Evil at the Top

Malcolm Mathew was standing on the edge of a 76 storey building, staring at the skyline in front of him. His view was being obstructed by an identical 76 storey tower right in front him. Frowning, he reversed his direction, and proceeded towards the opposite side of the spacious terrace, where he sat still on …

Marijuana Marketing

Marketing definitions are dime a dozen. In essence, marketing simply means the application of tools or techniques to create a consumer for your product or service. This much is pretty clear to everybody, and whoever tell you otherwise is wrong. In effect, what this means is that, marketers need to target their prospects present in …

Lies and Misleading

The weather changed dramatically over the night from a pleasant type of cold, to an extremely pleasant type of cold, according to Sins. He saw the rest of the passengers in his compartment adorned and decked up in sweaters and long sleeved shirts or tops. Sins was clad in a half sleeve tee shirt and …

Social Animals

"I'll find you and then I'll shoot you" "You haven't got a gun, nor do you have the money for it. Kindly stop bluffing and accept logic, which incidentally should be a by-product, of your undeserved privilege of being lucky to have studied at a good grad school" "What do you mean" "I need you …

Goverments, Power and Blindness

"I want to tear his sorry soul into pieces and roast them alive, post which they will be fed to carnivores" "Well, technically you can only tear bodies. Souls on the other hand are present in the subconscious. They're inaccessible to your stinky hands. Plus to some of us, souls are imaginary, and do not …

Unawareness helps the Elected

"I can't believe you're ready to accept what you're being told by the elected. How can you?" "The people of this country have put them in power. What do you want me to do?" "You can introspect, question and try to understand as to whom they're pandering to. The bigwigs or the suppressed? Both the …