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Some people make a room feel bigger… Mal Wright makes it feel familiar. The producer, creative, and breakout star of Netflix's The Ultimatum: Queer Love has built a following on warmth, honesty, and the rare ability to make strangers feel like they've known her for years. Ask how she describes the energy she brings into a space and she'll tell you: "welcome home, family reunion, favorite cousin." That sense of community runs through everything.

Order special instructions Leave a note about your order Your Cart is Empty Thirty years ago this fall, a group of queer activists in San Francisco legalized cannabis as medicine in California. It was the first law like it anywhere in the world and it existed because people were dying of AIDS and nobody in the federal government was helping. Brownie Mary was in her seventies when she started baking cannabis brownies and delivering them to patients at SF General.

Motherhood is full of coping mechanisms nobody talks about out loud — the 3pm cortado that saves the day, the laundry folding that passes for meditation, the bag of Haribo consumed in secret while Bridgerton plays. Melissa Goldstein and Natalia Rachlin built an entire media brand, Mother Tongue Magazine, around the idea that those honest, unglamorous, real moments of motherhood deserve a platform.

For most of its commercial life in the United States, cannabis has been marketed through a narrow lens — loud, recreational, potency-driven, and often coded male. The cultural shorthand rewarded escalation: higher THC percentages, stronger strains, bigger hits. As legalization expanded state by state, dispensary menus leaned further into numbers. Strength became a proxy for quality, and intensity became the headline. But the plant itself has always told a quieter story.

Reclaiming Black joy and cannabis use as resistance Pleasure has never been neutral. For Black Americans, rest, gathering, intimacy, and altered states have often existed under measurable surveillance. In 2020, the ACLU reported that Black people were 3.64 times more likely to be arrested for cannabis possession than white people, despite similar usage rates.¹ In some states, that disparity was far higher. The arrests were overwhelmingly for possession, not trafficking or violent crime.

If it feels like sex has become harder to get to—less spontaneous, more sensitive to timing, stress, and whether the day already wrung you out—that’s not just a vibe. Researchers have been tracking a measurable shift in sexual activity and desire for years. Analyses published in Archives of Sexual Behavior, drawing on decades of U.S. General Social Survey data, show a steady decline in sexual frequency among adults since the early 2000s, with some of the sharpest drops among people under 35.

Every December, someone asks Santa how he does it. It’s usually about the travel, the hours, the stamina. I’ve seen it happen enough times now that I can picture Mrs. Claus standing a few feet away when the question lands, already scanning the room for who looks fried and who’s about to ask for something unreasonable. She doesn’t interrupt. She doesn’t roll her eyes. She just keeps things moving, because that’s the job.

Federal cannabis policy just cracked open — finally, after many years, and in a very 2025 kind of way, which is to say, somewhat disappointing, if expected. On Thursday, December 18, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act. It’s the biggest federal shift since the plant was outlawed more than 50 years ago.

Order special instructions Leave a note about your order Your Cart is Empty Holiday gatherings can be magical and also nerve-wracking. Between the crowded calendars, family dynamics, and pressure to be merry, it’s no wonder many of us feel anxious this time of year. If you’re someone who leans on a little cannabis to survive the season, you’re not alone. More people are swapping eggnog for edibles or stepping outside to take a puff instead of a shot. But using weed socially is a balancing act.

The first time someone hears that the body already makes cannabinoids, it can sound like folklore. It isn’t. Those molecules exist in everyone, including people who have never touched cannabis. They are called endocannabinoids, and they belong to a biological network identified in the early 1990s by Dr. Raphael Mechoulam and colleagues who were studying how THC works in the brain. That network—the endocannabinoid system, or ECS—extends through almost every tissue in the body.