Drugs and art are no strangers to one another but what about art that is actually a drug? For the last decade, a new way of getting high has been gaining popularity amongst teenagers across the country; this new drug isn’t anything you snort, shoot, or even swallow, it is
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Adobe Falls is much more than a waterfall; it’s a right of passage for any pothead freshman that comes to San Diego State University. Adobe Falls is one of many secret little gems hidden right by SDSU. It’s entrance is covered by trees and the second you start going in,
Remember when marijuana was legalized in California and that was considered a controversy? Ha, yeah so now according to an article by Aaron Kase in Vice, “Monterrey-area medical marijuana advocate Kevin Saunders and his fiancée, Kitty Merchant, filed a ballot initiative with the state attorney general this past August that
For the most part, Shameless the American (and British) running TV show is a brilliant representation of the use of the word shameless. The show is about the Gallagher family, a low income household with a drunk father, severely bipolar mother and kids that practically raised themselves, with help from
Though I noted the subject had been touched on, I felt like there was more to add in regards to the Mexican ballads referencing the drug trade, known as “narcocorridos”. There are all types of ‘corridos’, ranging from those honoring war heroes to immigration advocacy, but I will focus specifically
Dope is a film about a young African-American high school senior named Malcolm, who accidentally finds himself in possession of drugs and a weapon after attending a party hosted by a drug dealer named Dom. The party ended after a shoot out between the rival gangs and police intervention. Despite
As the synopsis says “a nurse, Coffy (Pam Grier) has seen the ill effects of drugs up close, but it isn’t until her little sister becomes addicted to heroin that she finally decides to wage a one-woman battle. Disguised as a prostitute, Coffy goes on a killing rampage, at first
Tulsa is a series of graphic photographs of troubled youth in Tulsa, Oklahoma shot by Larry Clark. The book feature’s some very powerful images of young people in the town shooting amphetamine’s, having sex, and toting weapons. At the time he shot the photographs, Clark was a drug addict and
Bryan Lewis Saunders is an incredibly wild artist to say the least. From performance art and spoken word to painting self-portraits on drugs, Saunders breaks boundaries of self-expression. Included are photos from the project Saunders created where he took different drugs and created self-portraits. Many of these drugs I have
The story of Raquel Santos de Oliveira (pictured above) is extremely uncommon—it is not often we hear about female’s being cocaine kingpins. Raquel took the position following the death of her significant other and the original kingpin, Ednaldo “Naldo” de Souza, in a bloody shoot out with police in 1988.