Welcome back to “Heady Entertainment,” MERRY JANE’s weekly guide to just-released movies, books, TV shows, and music — all fresh, dank, and THC-friendly. In specific, we choose our picks based on how they can enhance your combined consumption of cannabis and entertainment. As the lockdown continues, remember the essentials: weed, weed, more weed, dope stuff…

Image via The regulated marijuana industry recently experienced record-breaking sales while everyone stocked up weed, but the heady hoarding triggered by COVID-19 lockdowns may not be enough to save pot businesses from a potential economic recession. Already, sales figures have slumped back down to their typical year-over-year numbers in some weed-legal states. According to data…

Lead photo by Luke Henry Ever since the term “punk” was first used to describe bands like MC5 and the Sex Pistols in the 1970s, the sound and ethos of the music style has been in a state of constant flux. These days, “punk” is more of an ideology or attitude than a subgenre, and…

The US is deep in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, and a growing number of states have issued “shelter-in-place” orders, requiring all non-essential businesses to close. Most states have designated both adult-use and medical marijuana as essential services during the quarantine, but Massachusetts has taken a different stance on the matter. On Monday, Governor…

Talk to enough stoners, and one of them may eventually argue that weed beats alcohol on the merits of hangovers — or lack thereof — alone. While it’s true that the effects of alcohol consumption can produce some truly unwelcome, occasionally serious consequences, cannabis cannot wholly claim to be devoid of hangovers. At least, that’s…

Most Americans believe that states should not restrict access to legal medical cannabis during “shelter-in-place” measures, according to a new poll. The poll, conducted by YouGov earlier this week, asked nearly 5,400 Americans whether medical marijuana dispensaries should be considered “essential services” or not. Slightly over half (53 percent) of all respondents agreed that access…

Photo via As a growing number of countries, states, and cities around the globe continue to enact total lockdowns and quarantine protocols to slow the spread of COVID-19, drug dealers across the pond are struggling to keep up sales of cocaine, MDMA, and other party substances. In a pair of separate reported pieces from The…