Rolling Stoner's Articles And More

Not every cannabis story needs to be breaking news.

Some are simply too interesting not to read.

Rolling Stoner Cool Reads is where we collect the cannabis stories, ideas, discoveries and wonderfully unexpected rabbit holes that deserve a little more time.

This is the part of Rolling Stoner where curiosity gets the keys.

You might find us looking at cannabis history one week, strange science the next, and then disappearing into a story about design, travel, food, technology or South African culture that somehow connects back to the plant.

Sometimes the connection is obvious.

Sometimes it takes a few paragraphs.

That is half the fun.

Cannabis Culture Beyond the Headlines

South African cannabis culture is much bigger than dispensaries, products and legislation.

It overlaps with agriculture, music, food, tourism, technology, entrepreneurship, art and an increasingly inventive collection of local businesses.

Cool Reads gives us space to explore those connections.

These are stories that make you stop scrolling for a minute.

We look for interesting characters, unusual ideas, forgotten history, scientific developments and the small cultural details that reveal how cannabis continues to find its way into everyday life.

Stories From South Africa and Further Afield

Rolling Stoner spends a lot of time travelling through South Africa and meeting the people building the country’s cannabis culture.

Naturally, some interesting stories follow us home.

Cool Reads allows us to explore those stories alongside fascinating developments from elsewhere in the world.

That could mean digging into an unusual piece of cannabis research, exploring the origins of a smoking tradition, looking at how another country approaches cannabis culture or simply investigating something we discovered while travelling.

If it makes us curious, there is a reasonable chance it belongs here.

For the Cannabis Curious

You do not need to know your terpenes from your trichomes to enjoy Cool Reads.

These articles are written for anyone interested in cannabis and the culture growing around it.

Some pieces will teach you something.

Others might send you down an entirely new internet rabbit hole.

A few may simply leave you thinking, Well, I didn’t know that.

Mission accomplished.

Keep Exploring Rolling Stoner

Cool Reads is only one corner of the Rolling Stoner universe.

You can also explore our Rolling Stoner Sessions, where we meet the founders, makers, growers, activists and personalities helping shape South African cannabis culture.

Or head into our Rolling Stoner Authenticated directory to discover cannabis destinations, social clubs, lounges and other interesting places around South Africa.

Then there is Route 420, our ever-growing journey through the places, people and roadside discoveries that make South Africa such an extraordinary country to explore.

But if you have arrived here because you simply wanted something interesting to read, pull up a chair.

You are in the right place.