Chris Roberts
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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.
After House Republican Betrayal, It’s Up to Senate to Save Pot from Jeff Sessions
Until Wednesday, the most reliable bulwark against a Trump administration crackdown on legal marijuana were Trump Republicans. Across…
September 7, 2017
The Opiate Crisis Is Officially a Fentanyl-Fueled Disaster
It didn’t take long for America to conquer both prescription pain pills and the sea of good old…
September 6, 2017
First-Ever UK Medical Marijuana Patient Has ‘Miracle’ Recovery
About once a day, 11-year-old Billy Caldwell could expect to almost die. Thirty times a month, Billy would…
September 6, 2017
Trump’s Second Try to Dump a Bad Drug Czar on Us
Like most everything else he touches, the art of the “news dump”—the delivery (or more aptly, deposit) of…
September 6, 2017
Meet the Activist Defying Cops to Hand out Free Pot to Opiate Users
It’s wrong to call the opiate crisis an “epidemic.” Ucontrollable spreads of mosquito-borne diseases like malaria or Zika…
September 5, 2017
Will Colorado Be the First State to Send a Cannabis Businessman to Congress?
Colorado can lay claim to a very limited resource in America: a seat in Congress that’s a weed…
September 4, 2017
Las Vegas’s Run As Cannabis Capital Was Short
Marijuana legalization has been good for business, but fewer businesses have been better served by legal weed than…
September 1, 2017
Another Major Victory for Weed in the Workplace
As significant an accomplishment as it is, the country’s widening experiment with marijuana legalization is also significantly limited…
September 1, 2017
Former Obama Staffer Begs Sessions to Crack Down on Legalization
Even if you’ve never met a diehard drug warrior or a former Capitol Hill staffer, chances are there’s…
August 31, 2017
Marijuana May Be the Messiah for Israeli’s Kibbutz Movement
If it weren’t for the kibbutzim, there may not be an Israel. Collective farms that combine Zionism with…
August 30, 2017