Miriam Jacobson

Smoke Alarm

Miriam JacobsonJuly 4, 2001

Photo by Olga Matlin Hemp sympathizers Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney are still a bit stunned at the success of their hit musical Reefer Madness. (It’s a parody of the 1936 cult film of the same title.) The play will open off-Broadway at the Variety Arts Theater in the East......

Reefer Madness

Miriam JacobsonAugust 11, 1999

Art by Grady McFerrinWE WERE LOOKING FOR ACTION, BUT NOT the kind offered by the porno shops and dive bars in this seedy section of Granville Street, Vancouver's main drag. I'd heard of a couple of coffeehouses in Gastown where you could actually smoke the devil's weed. So my best......