Until then, smuggling weed had been a grand adventure, an escape from a society that had just thrown Prager’s generation into a meat grinder in Vietnam, a repudiation of the crooked politicians and backward preachers and greedy capitalists who were running the world.
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Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
This type of apocalyptic thought has roots in the 19th century, when many American preachers turned toward more literal readings of the Bible.
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Ryan Martin,
IndyStar,
29 Mar. 2026
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Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Mar. 2026
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