Chris Roberts
454 posts
Chris Roberts is a High Times Staff writer based in San Francisco, just across the Bay from America's most cannabis-friendly city, and has been covering marijuana and drug policy since 2009.
Kanye West’s Insurance Claims Weed Caused Last Year’s Massive Meltdown
2016 was a weird year for us all. It was much weirder for Kanye West. There he was,…
August 7, 2017
Yacht Wars: Pot Company Kicked off San Diego Dock during Comic-Con
Who booted Budtrader.com off a ritzy yacht dock during Comic-Con last weekend—and why? Nobody will say, so now…
July 27, 2017
Cannabis-Loving Catholics Plan to Defy Church, Burn Marijuana Oil Inside DC Basilica
If you were thinking about checking out the very rare total solar eclipse next month, and you haven’t…
July 27, 2017
How a Federal Raid, a Brutal Home Invasion & Over-Regulation Sunk Southern Oregon’s Best-Known Grower
Everybody in southern Oregon knew James Bowman. That was the problem. A lifelong grower who’d been cultivating cannabis…
July 26, 2017
Why Jeff Sessions’ Successor Could Be Worse for Drug Reform
Someday—perhaps someday very soon, judging by how often his boss is harassing him into obstructing justice, online—Jefferson Beauregard…
July 26, 2017
Jeff Sessions Desperately Wants to Allow Police to Keep Stealing Your Property
Nearly lost in the miasma of secret anti-marijuana meetings in Colorado and Donald Trump’s very public wish for…
July 20, 2017
Fears of Pot Crackdown Stoked After Feds Hold ‘Secret Meeting’ in Colorado
Fears of a federal Justice Department-led crackdown on America’s burgeoning legal marijuana industry—based entirely on anti-cannabis statements, recent…
July 20, 2017
Trump Is Sick of Jeff Sessions, Who (So Far) Refuses to Quit
Like us, President Donald Trump is through with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and wishes he’d picked someone other…
July 20, 2017
Baltimore Cop Suspended After Body Camera Records Himself Planting Drugs—But It’s Worse Than That
The way Baltimore Police officer Richard Pinheiro would tell it—and was going to tell it in court as…
July 20, 2017
Amsterdam Falling: New European Pot Capital Needed
If you care about smoking marijuana in Amsterdam, as many generations of Americans before you have done, we…
July 14, 2017