Dear Berg: Be ready to take notes if an old-timer ever tells you about the time he smoked a Thai stick, because it was probably crazier than any blunt you’ve ever had. Not to be confused with Thai or ...

Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away — otherwise known as the early 1970s — high-grade cannabis was so hard to come by in the U.S. that the counterculture took to sailing boats across the ...

Film rights to Thai Stick, a scholarly work on the illicit marijuana trade between Southeast Asia and the West coast of the United States in the 1960s and 70s, have been recently acquired by perhaps ...

It’s extraordinary that the gigantic counter-cultural movement known to most people as the era of the hippies still awaits a major comprehensive account. Professional historians appear to look away in ...

The ocean and its waves have lifelong devotees. In this case, they are the surfing drug smugglers of California, who once sailed the world's oceans for enjoyment — and tremendous profit. They lived ...