It’s 420 day, or 4/20 day, if you’re into forward slashes. Weed day! It’s weed day. And this is a column about marijuana in the movies, going back many, many decades — as does cannabis. Does ...

“Fulla weed!” “Fulla weed?!” And off they sail into a frantic comic ditty called “Reefer Man.” The song’s lyrics paint the man in question as a disoriented goofball half out of his mind. Just before ...

Originally titled “Have You Ever Met That Funny Reefer Man,” this song was written in 1932 by J. Russel Robinson, with lyrics by Andy Razaf, and recorded by Cab Calloway. As the song was written five ...

CAB CALLOWAY IS A JAZZ LEGEND, THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO SELL A MILLION RECORDS WITH A SINGLE SONG. >> HE IS THE GRANDFATHER OF HIP HOP AND THE WRAP MOVEMENTS WE SEE TODAY BECAUSE HE CAME FROM ...

CHICAGO — Now that cannabis and Illinois have made it legal, time has gone a little … haywire. It seems so long ago since Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong gave us the “Dave’s not here” routine. Forty-nine ...

Now, the children and grandchildren of anyone who saw “Reefer Madness” in the ‘70s have found an unlikely love-to-hate-it successor. A recent Washington Post story by Maura Judkis details a novel ...