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.
Why Michigan’s Marijuana Regulators Want to Shut the Cannabis Industry Down
Michigan’s medical marijuana industry has had a licensing authority—in this case, the Michigan Medical Marijuana Licensing Board—for less…
August 29, 2017
California’s Capital City to Send SWAT Teams after Noncompliant Pot Grows
Sometime before the Labor Day holiday, heavily armed and highly trained law-enforcement officers will fan out across Sacramento,…
August 29, 2017
Veterans: VA Is Publishing ‘Worthless’ Pot Studies, Blocking Real Research
For more than a decade, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been dealing with a quiet crisis…
August 29, 2017
Report: North Korea Is Funding Its Nuclear Weapons Program with Drug Sales
If all geopolitics are local, and entire regions can be described as neighborhoods—and they often are—North Korea is…
August 24, 2017
Why Are California Cops Raiding Legal Marijuana Grows?
Marijuana legalization can be best described as a partnership. For cannabis to become a commodity that is bought…
August 23, 2017
Why Jeff Sessions Doesn’t Need a Cannabis Crackdown
It’s the crackdown that never came, the American War on Drugs’ Phoney War, the interminable lull between the…
August 22, 2017
Tiger Woods Episode Reveals Our Dishonest Denial about Prescription Drugs
They couldn’t hang Tiger Woods for being a drunk, so now media moralizers are attempting to brand the…
August 21, 2017
Report: ISIS Resorting to Drugs to Fuel Last-Ditch Stand
While America’s attention is rightly focused on white supremacists and our president’s steadfast refusal to denounce them, over…
August 21, 2017
Why It’s Not OK for Cops to Tweet Marijuana Jokes
Last week, police in Lawrence, Kansas—a bona fide college city where nearly 30,000 students at the University of…
August 18, 2017
What Happens When You Eat Animals Who Eat Drugs
Earlier this summer, Sanderson Farms, the nation’s third-largest poultry producer and the supplier of more than 10.6 million…
August 18, 2017