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Bruce Banner and his rampaging, invincible alter-ego, the Incredible Hulk.Ī Brief History of Bruce Banner, Both the Man and the Mota Meanwhile, in the DC Universe, Robin is probably chumming it up with Jeff Sessions and Kevin Sabet by day ⁠- and by night, he’s vigilantly patrolling the city for stoned axe murderers afflicted with pathetically low-IQs and scrota clogged with non-motile sperm.Īnyway, many of today’s hyped weed strains were, ironically, inspired by the comic book icons that once denounced the plant: Batman OG, Wonder Woman, Thor’s Hammer, Captain America OG, and Green Lantern, to list a few.īut one comic book character, who just-so-happens to hail from Marvel, has two strains named after him: Dr. Last year, the Marvel Comics Universe legalized weed, so now Peter Parker really can, um, get down on Mary Jane - if ya know what we mean. “Leaves of Grass” illustrates why DC Comics, which owns Batman, is inherently inferior to its main competitor, Marvel Comics, at least when it comes to cannabis. Whoever wrote that had to be smoking the Green Crack. After Batman and Robin kick everyone’s asses, the Boy Wonder pontificates, “I want my mind in the best possible condition ⁠- the way it’s meant to be ⁠- with me in control. Ultimately, “Leaves of Grass” was just another lame anti-weed PSA. And Batman be damned if cheap schwag, smuggled into the US from another dimension, rots the brains of Gotham’s children on his watch. Long story short, Floronic Man tries to take over the world by getting everyone addicted to his affordable-yet-hyper-potent reggie reefer. For instance, a 1996 three-issue arc in Batman, aptly titled “ Leaves of Grass,” pitted the Caped Crusader against the verdantly vivacious villain Poison Ivy and her creator, Jason Woodrue a.k.a. Some PSAs were even skeezily disguised as legitimate story arcs.

Back in the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, cannabis only appeared in DC or Marvel comics as the subject of PSAs, where superheroes like the Incredible Hulk or Batman would warn young nerds about the irreversible dangers of doing The Drugs ™. The cannabis community and the comics community currently exist in a detente stemming from a complicated relationship that rapidly evolved over the past few decades.