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.
Trudeau: Canada’s Pot Legalization Will Be Corporate, Boring (And Not Equitable!)
What do you know about Justin Trudeau, Canada’s boyish and bilingual prime minister, whose Liberal government is slowly…
April 26, 2017
Study: Marijuana Compound Is Crucial for Stomach Health
Cannabis’s value as a tonic for sufferers of stomach trouble is well-known, as anyone treating Crohn’s disease or…
April 26, 2017
Report: Aaron Hernandez Used Fake Pot Prior to Suicide
Aaron Hernandez, the former NFL star serving a lifetime sentence for a 2013 murder, had synthetic marijuana in…
April 26, 2017
Study: Medical Marijuana Could Save Medicaid $1 Billion
Marijuana is a drug. This nobody can deny. Look: there it is—marijuana!—on the country’s Controlled Substances Act, the…
April 25, 2017
Marijuana vs. Auto Dealerships: Car Salesmen Not Feeling Cannabis
Cathedral City, California is one of a brace of forlorn, all-but-forgotten towns scattered across the wide expanse of…
April 24, 2017
5 Biggest Myths of the Drug War (and the Trump Administration Officials Peddling Them)
Tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C. on Saturday for an old-fashioned street protest. Less than 100…
April 24, 2017
Meet the Hardcore Trump Republican Pushing Pot Reform’s Best Hope
Matt Gaetz is a conservative Republican’s conservative Republican. Gaetz is a 34-year-old attorney who, while in the Florida…
April 20, 2017
The 4/20 Bump: Just How Big Is Pot’s Holiday?
Thursday, the twentieth day of April, it’s Christmas season for marijuana-related #content—and it’s make-or-make-even-better season for the nation’s…
April 20, 2017
The Preacher, the Teacher & Jared Fogle: Indiana’s Bonkers Fake Marijuana Ring
Newspapers are calling it the “Indiana version of Breaking Bad.” That’s not a terribly inaccurate description, and it…
April 19, 2017
Congressman: Total Shift on Federal Marijuana Policy “In Five Years”
2022. Mark the date, set an alarm. By then, in five years’ time, U.S. federal marijuana policies will…
April 19, 2017