Marian is an editor at High Times and the editorial director of El Planteo. She has been published in various media outlets, including Benzinga, Yahoo, and Forbes. She also recently launched her own YouTube project. When she's not doing all of that, she plays the piano and bandoneon, writes poetry, draws, and makes origami.
Chloe Sells was Hunter S. Thompson’s personal assistant from 2003 until his death, and the only photographer he let inside Owl Farm. She talks to High Times about acid, the problem with high-THC weed, AI, beauty as politics and the peanut butter Bloody Marys.
Researchers found traces of arecoline in ancient teeth from Indonesia, suggesting humans may have used psychoactive areca nuts as far back as 25,000 years ago.
More than 200,000 people were arrested for marijuana possession in the US in 2025, accounting for nearly a quarter of all drug-related arrests nationwide.
Barcelona’s new Plan Druida ramps up police presence, surveillance and enforcement across the city, with cannabis clubs firmly in the crosshairs. Authorities call it a modern public-safety strategy, but its critics see a familiar prohibitionist playbook with a new name.
Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge once got extremely high with Cypress Hill before a Blink-182 show, turning the night into what felt like an endless ordeal. Somehow, fans remember it as one of the band’s most electrifying performances.
A Senate stopgap funding bill would delay the federal prohibition on most hemp-derived THC products until December 11, but Republican senators Ted Budd and Pete
Rastafari communities helped shape the modern cultural and spiritual understanding of cannabis, yet legal recognition of sacramental ganja use remains uneven across the Caribbean and
We take a trip down memory lane tracing Paul McCartney’s multiple cannabis-related run-ins with the law, from minor fines to his nine-day detention in Japan
A new study questions how we diagnose addiction and warns against overpathologizing everyday habits with serious social and medical consequences.
Did ancient Greece use psychedelics? New research sheds light on the Eleusinian Mysteries and their possible psychoactive rituals.
Scarlett Johansson tells Stephen Colbert she got high at her first Cypress Hill concert, recalling a massive blunt and her early experiences with weed.
Wastewater data from across Europe reveals shifting drug use trends, with rising cocaine and ketamine levels and declining MDMA consumption.
Chloe Sells was Hunter S. Thompson’s personal assistant from 2003 until his death, and the only photographer he let inside Owl Farm. She talks to High Times about acid, the problem with high-THC weed, AI, beauty as politics and the peanut butter Bloody Marys.
Researchers found traces of arecoline in ancient teeth from Indonesia, suggesting humans may have used psychoactive areca nuts as far back as 25,000 years ago.
More than 200,000 people were arrested for marijuana possession in the US in 2025, accounting for nearly a quarter of all drug-related arrests nationwide.
Barcelona’s new Plan Druida ramps up police presence, surveillance and enforcement across the city, with cannabis clubs firmly in the crosshairs. Authorities call it a modern public-safety strategy, but its critics see a familiar prohibitionist playbook with a new name.
Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge once got extremely high with Cypress Hill before a Blink-182 show, turning the night into what felt like an endless ordeal. Somehow, fans remember it as one of the band’s most electrifying performances.
A Senate stopgap funding bill would delay the federal prohibition on most hemp-derived THC products until December 11, but Republican senators Ted Budd and Pete Ricketts are trying to block the reprieve. The White House is urging GOP lawmakers to accept the short delay, warning that the dispute could stall the broader spending bill and disrupt the Senate’s August recess.
Rastafari communities helped shape the modern cultural and spiritual understanding of cannabis, yet legal recognition of sacramental ganja use remains uneven across the Caribbean and beyond. Some countries have created varying forms of religious protections, often accompanied by licensing requirements, cultivation limits, or enforcement problems. Believe it or not, the cannabis plant has connections to a surprising number of religious
We take a trip down memory lane tracing Paul McCartney’s multiple cannabis-related run-ins with the law, from minor fines to his nine-day detention in Japan in 1980. The relationship between music and weed surprises exactly no one. In particular, the connection between the plant and The Beatles, one of the most successful bands in history, has been fertile ground for
A new study questions how we diagnose addiction and warns against overpathologizing everyday habits with serious social and medical consequences.
Did ancient Greece use psychedelics? New research sheds light on the Eleusinian Mysteries and their possible psychoactive rituals.
Scarlett Johansson tells Stephen Colbert she got high at her first Cypress Hill concert, recalling a massive blunt and her early experiences with weed.
Wastewater data from across Europe reveals shifting drug use trends, with rising cocaine and ketamine levels and declining MDMA consumption.
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