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.
Fentanyl-Laced Weed Is Fake News, But Who’s to Blame for This Hoax?
First: Fentanyl is a real thing, and it’s cataclysmic. The opiate epidemic was never good, but it has…
October 5, 2017
San Diego Cops Aim to Shut Down Pot Delivery Services
It’s going to be a busy fall for the San Diego Police Department. Retail cannabis sales will begin…
September 27, 2017
Wisconsin Cities Are Legalizing Marijuana Themselves
Wisconsin, the land that gave us Paul Ryan, Scott Walker and former sheriff Richard Clarke— malformed half-offerings from…
September 27, 2017
Scientists Claim to Have a Fingerprint Test for Cocaine Use
Cocaine is not the world’s most subtle drug—nobody is that excited about the latest episode of American Crime—but…
September 27, 2017
Cops Are Still Arresting More People for Drugs Than Any Other Crime
Reform, change, improvement—we’re repeatedly told that these are processes. Journeys. Paths and routes, often long and sometimes circuitous. Effort…
September 26, 2017
What The 4 Biggest Pro Sports Leagues Think About Cannabis
More and more pro athletes, representing the full range of pro sports leagues, are opening up about marijuana’s…
September 24, 2017
We Need to Talk about Hollywood’s Representation of Weed Culture
About the nicest thing you can say about Disjointed, the old-school-sitcom-in-a-21st-century-medical-marijuana-dispensary that premiered on Netflix last month, is…
September 23, 2017
Growing Pains: Wholesale Marijuana Prices Continue to Drop
The genius of supply and demand as economic theory is its raw, basic simplicity. There are plenty of…
September 21, 2017
Sri Lanka Says It Can Grow Better Weed Than the U.S.
Thanks to prohibition laws, the U.S. is a major buyer in the overseas trade in cannabis—especially hemp. Now,…
September 19, 2017
New Attempts to Outlaw Home Grows Are Stupid and Counterproductive
One of marijuana legalization’s original promises was the right to do it all yourself. This cuts both ways.…
September 19, 2017