Hernán Panessi, a columinst at High Times and El Planteo, is a journalist specializing in youth culture. He writes for InfoTechnology, Rolling Stone, THC, and Lento magazines. He also contributes to Página/12, El Planeta Urbano, El Cronista, and the Uruguayan newspaper La Diaria. He has contributed to Revista Ñ, Clarín, La Nación, La Cosa, Playboy, Haciendo Cine, Billboard, Los Inrockuptibles, Forbes, VICE, Benzinga, High Times, and Yahoo, among others. Hernán wrote the books Porno Argento! Historia del cine nacional Triple X, Periodismo pop, Una puerta que se abre, and Rock en Español. He taught at the Rojas Cultural Center (UBA), where he taught journalism workshops. He is also a programmer for the VHS section of the Valdivia International Film Festival in Chile. He hosts FAN, a journalistic program on culture, society, and modern life. He also hosted FM Delta 90.3 and Nacional Rock 93.7. He was also a columnist for La Once Diez and Metro 95.1.
Cannabis loosens self-criticism and everyday logic, which is why the idea feels like a revelation at midnight and like nonsense at nine in the morning. The gap is real. It’s also the point.
Randy of Jowell & Randy has launched La Zaza, a cannabis brand built on Caribbean identity and premium positioning. He says he’s in the lab, not just on the label, and that West Coast brands have quality but no cultural soul.
Five years of contradictions in one job description. Cannabis lawyers in the US and Argentina on 280E, hemp loopholes, deals built on good vibes and why Jimmy McGill is less fictional than he looks.
Fresh frozen holds the flower at the moment of harvest, keeping much of the terpene profile and color that curing takes away. Benjamin Lind of Humboldt Seed Company, Jeff Wirt and Dan Michaels of Jaunty, and Federico Vázquez of The Dab Club explain the trichome trifecta that decides which genetics can handle it, why the cold chain is a barrier almost nobody clears, and what a hash library actually is.
Fela Kuti smoked ritually and said so publicly. The Nigerian state used it to call his politics ridiculous. Ahead of his Rock and Roll Hall
There is no registry for strain names, no copyright and no authority to appeal to. James Loud, Jorge Cervantes, Kyle Kushman, Denise Yacar, Ramiro Gopar and Sergio Puerta explain who earns the right to name a plant, why the mother’s name comes first, how Jack Herer got its name, and why reputation is the only enforcement mechanism the culture has ever had.
Chile’s Operación Imperio Ámsterdam has intensified a sweeping crackdown on medical cannabis networks, leaving more than 16,000 patients facing disrupted access and exposing deep legal gaps around collective cultivation and the right to health.
In Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie, the duo lands a line the theater takes as a punchline: cannabis should be mandatory. Then you read the news. The “normie” world running the planet is a machine of stress, ego and endless acceleration, and the real danger may not be getting high but staying exactly as sober as the people currently steering.
The lazy stoner is dead. In his place stands the marathon runner with the minimalist vape and the CBD recovery gel. Cheech & Chong’s Last
On the night of Maha Shivaratri, cannabis smoke rises over Pashupatinath as it has for centuries. Nepal legally sold hashish until 1973, when Washington leaned on Kathmandu and the shops closed. Activist Hemant Shahi and Ed Rosenthal on the fight to give the plant back to the god it belongs to.
Cannabis doesn’t give you talent you don’t already have. A psychiatrist explains how THC works as a modulator, not a creator — lowering inhibitory control, activating CB1 receptors, and helping you see what was already there, just in higher resolution.
The Memphis rapper has lived in pajamas for 24 years and built an empire of positivity on his own terms. Now he’s launching a cannabis brand, and he has thoughts on weed, comfort, and letting go of what people think.
Cannabis loosens self-criticism and everyday logic, which is why the idea feels like a revelation at midnight and like nonsense at nine in the morning. The gap is real. It’s also the point.
Randy of Jowell & Randy has launched La Zaza, a cannabis brand built on Caribbean identity and premium positioning. He says he’s in the lab, not just on the label, and that West Coast brands have quality but no cultural soul.
Five years of contradictions in one job description. Cannabis lawyers in the US and Argentina on 280E, hemp loopholes, deals built on good vibes and why Jimmy McGill is less fictional than he looks.
Fresh frozen holds the flower at the moment of harvest, keeping much of the terpene profile and color that curing takes away. Benjamin Lind of Humboldt Seed Company, Jeff Wirt and Dan Michaels of Jaunty, and Federico Vázquez of The Dab Club explain the trichome trifecta that decides which genetics can handle it, why the cold chain is a barrier almost nobody clears, and what a hash library actually is.
Fela Kuti smoked ritually and said so publicly. The Nigerian state used it to call his politics ridiculous. Ahead of his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, Seun and Femi Kuti on what the plant meant to their father, and what it cost him. Sometimes it takes a while to get there, but in the end, at last, there
There is no registry for strain names, no copyright and no authority to appeal to. James Loud, Jorge Cervantes, Kyle Kushman, Denise Yacar, Ramiro Gopar and Sergio Puerta explain who earns the right to name a plant, why the mother’s name comes first, how Jack Herer got its name, and why reputation is the only enforcement mechanism the culture has ever had.
Chile’s Operación Imperio Ámsterdam has intensified a sweeping crackdown on medical cannabis networks, leaving more than 16,000 patients facing disrupted access and exposing deep legal gaps around collective cultivation and the right to health.
In Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie, the duo lands a line the theater takes as a punchline: cannabis should be mandatory. Then you read the news. The “normie” world running the planet is a machine of stress, ego and endless acceleration, and the real danger may not be getting high but staying exactly as sober as the people currently steering.
The lazy stoner is dead. In his place stands the marathon runner with the minimalist vape and the CBD recovery gel. Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie, now streaming, is the last bastion of the countercultural original. The stereotype of the lazy, good-for-nothing stoner, the one who sat glued to the couch staring into space and thinking about everything while wolfing
On the night of Maha Shivaratri, cannabis smoke rises over Pashupatinath as it has for centuries. Nepal legally sold hashish until 1973, when Washington leaned on Kathmandu and the shops closed. Activist Hemant Shahi and Ed Rosenthal on the fight to give the plant back to the god it belongs to.
Cannabis doesn’t give you talent you don’t already have. A psychiatrist explains how THC works as a modulator, not a creator — lowering inhibitory control, activating CB1 receptors, and helping you see what was already there, just in higher resolution.
The Memphis rapper has lived in pajamas for 24 years and built an empire of positivity on his own terms. Now he’s launching a cannabis brand, and he has thoughts on weed, comfort, and letting go of what people think.
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