Cannabis dispensaries logged 679 events in the first half of 2026, more than in all of 2025. Capri King of Kings House of Fire, marketing consultant Jamie Cooper and Event-Hi’s Adelia Fakhri on why timing decides whether a pop-up pays for itself, what swag people actually keep, and what gets a brand ambassador sent home.
Chain dispensaries earn twice the wholesale discounts and reorder every two weeks. Independents order every 24 days and stock the same eight SKUs per order. Operators and wholesale data on where the two models actually diverge, and where they don’t.
The Netherlands’ regulated cannabis experiment is already reshaping coffeeshop shelves, expanding product variety and driving down flower prices. But early findings show little change in consumption, health outcomes, or public safety—and the illicit market hasn’t disappeared.
An eighth costs $15 in Washington and $52 in Kentucky, where every buyer is a patient. Former Massachusetts cannabis regulator Shawn Collins uses High Times’ price index and a bourbon thought experiment to explain why state borders force every legal market to rebuild an entire supply chain, what license caps cost patients, and what’s holding the border shut.
The national price of an eighth moved seven cents in a year, but 24 of 34 states cut theirs. Medical patients look gouged until you weight by how much each state actually sells, and then the gap vanishes to a single cent. What’s left is store count: states with fewer than 25 dispensaries sell an eighth at $43.89, states with more than 300 sell it at $18.50.
High Times started printing weed prices in 1974 so buyers would stop getting fleeced by people who knew the going rate. Trans-High Market Quotations is now a live index built on daily dispensary point-of-sale data, free, sortable by state. And for the markets receipts never reach, we want your numbers.
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies has worked with universities, clinicians and the Department of Defense. Its first partnership with a cannabis company is HoneyProjects, a three-store New Jersey operator whose newest dispensary opened August 29 in Elmwood Park. It’s education and outreach at retail, not research, and that’s what makes the venue interesting.
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.
Someone bought fifteen cannabis products off Denver shelves and sent them to a lab. Two came back legal. On average the labels claimed 34.2% more THC than the products held. A Spanish engineer who has spent sixteen years scanning flower explains why the incentive to inflate runs through every link in the chain, why California calculates that fixing it costs four times what consumers would gain, and what would actually break the loop.
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.
After five years, two applications, six figures in expenses, and a maze of shifting rules, one New York cannabis entrepreneur finally secured a retail license—and
Premo expands into Morris County with Premo Dover, bringing its culture-first retail model, community work, and family-run approach to a second New Jersey location.
Cannabis dispensaries logged 679 events in the first half of 2026, more than in all of 2025. Capri King of Kings House of Fire, marketing consultant Jamie Cooper and Event-Hi’s Adelia Fakhri on why timing decides whether a pop-up pays for itself, what swag people actually keep, and what gets a brand ambassador sent home.
Chain dispensaries earn twice the wholesale discounts and reorder every two weeks. Independents order every 24 days and stock the same eight SKUs per order. Operators and wholesale data on where the two models actually diverge, and where they don’t.
The Netherlands’ regulated cannabis experiment is already reshaping coffeeshop shelves, expanding product variety and driving down flower prices. But early findings show little change in consumption, health outcomes, or public safety—and the illicit market hasn’t disappeared.
An eighth costs $15 in Washington and $52 in Kentucky, where every buyer is a patient. Former Massachusetts cannabis regulator Shawn Collins uses High Times’ price index and a bourbon thought experiment to explain why state borders force every legal market to rebuild an entire supply chain, what license caps cost patients, and what’s holding the border shut.
The national price of an eighth moved seven cents in a year, but 24 of 34 states cut theirs. Medical patients look gouged until you weight by how much each state actually sells, and then the gap vanishes to a single cent. What’s left is store count: states with fewer than 25 dispensaries sell an eighth at $43.89, states with more than 300 sell it at $18.50.
High Times started printing weed prices in 1974 so buyers would stop getting fleeced by people who knew the going rate. Trans-High Market Quotations is now a live index built on daily dispensary point-of-sale data, free, sortable by state. And for the markets receipts never reach, we want your numbers.
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies has worked with universities, clinicians and the Department of Defense. Its first partnership with a cannabis company is HoneyProjects, a three-store New Jersey operator whose newest dispensary opened August 29 in Elmwood Park. It’s education and outreach at retail, not research, and that’s what makes the venue interesting.
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.
Someone bought fifteen cannabis products off Denver shelves and sent them to a lab. Two came back legal. On average the labels claimed 34.2% more THC than the products held. A Spanish engineer who has spent sixteen years scanning flower explains why the incentive to inflate runs through every link in the chain, why California calculates that fixing it costs four times what consumers would gain, and what would actually break the loop.
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.
After five years, two applications, six figures in expenses, and a maze of shifting rules, one New York cannabis entrepreneur finally secured a retail license—and learned how legalization can still punish the people it was supposed to help. The process to get to this point has been, in a word, farcical. From shifting goalposts to inexplicable delays, New York’s recreational
Premo expands into Morris County with Premo Dover, bringing its culture-first retail model, community work, and family-run approach to a second New Jersey location.
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