Category: California

Weed Can’t Get Past 34%. The Labels Go to 42%. The System Rewards the Lie.

August 28, 2026 No Comments

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.

Sonoma County Sent Drones to Find Illegal Weed. Keni Meyer Lost Her Home Over Building-Code Violations Unrelated to Cannabis.

August 27, 2026 No Comments

Sonoma County launched its drone program in 2019 to find unpermitted cannabis grows. Keni Meyer lost her home over building codes and lives in a trailer park. Elias Stravenitis lost a $250,000 nursery and 20 jobs and is fighting a million-dollar fine. Jeremy Freitas, fully licensed, racked up $83,000 trying to comply. The county has paused the program while it negotiates with the ACLU.

Housing Crisis, Fentanyl, and Dogs With ODs: The Hidden Toll of Skid Row’s Opioid Epidemic

June 22, 2026 No Comments

Animal rescuers say dogs on Skid Row are suffering from neglect, abuse, lack of veterinary care, and alleged exposure to fentanyl-contaminated drugs, raising deeper questions about homelessness, addiction, and institutional accountability in Los Angeles.

Exclusive: Jerry Garcia’s Cannabis Brand Is Back In California, Betting Craft Can Survive The Cheap Weed Era

May 28, 2026 No Comments

Garcia Hand Picked, the cannabis brand built by Jerry Garcia’s family, is returning to California on June 5 after pulling out of the state years ago. It’s coming back to a market gutted by price compression and oversupply, betting on the small sun-grown farms getting squeezed hardest. In an exclusive interview, the brand’s team told High Times why now, why craft, and what coming home really means.

Trimmigrant Nightmares: The Side of California Cannabis No One Talks About

May 26, 2026 No Comments

Ana Bacigalupo left her office job in Buenos Aires and flew to California to trim cannabis. What she found was the part of harvest season nobody brags about: tents, isolation, armed bosses, raids, theft and a human cost that still isn’t easy to name. This is the first installment of Trimmigrant Nightmares, a High Times series on migrant cannabis labor.

$1,566 For A Single Cut: Inside California’s Biggest Clone Release Weekend Ever

May 6, 2026 No Comments

California hosts three major cannabis clone release events in May 2026, with elite cuttings of Tire Fire OG, Tom Hill Haze, Toad Venom and PCG’s Habibi selling for up to $1,566 each. Hendrx Nursery, Purple City Genetics, Haze Valley Nursery and Green Dragon are among the breeders releasing top-tier genetics at Clonetopia in the Bay Area and at separate LA events.

The Cannabis ‘Shit List’: Where Vendors Are Naming California’s Lowest-Rated Operators

May 1, 2026 No Comments

U.S. cannabis operators carried more than $3.8 billion in delinquent receivables at the end of 2023, according to Whitney Economics. California’s legislature has tried twice to mandate timely vendor payments and both bills failed. A public credit-scoring platform is now naming the operators with the lowest credit ratings.

L.A.’s Cannabis Market Is Cracking. Now City Leaders Say They’re Finally Ready to Fix It

November 11, 2025 No Comments

Los Angeles helped shape the early legal cannabis economy, a cultural hub, a brand engine, a magnet for operators who wanted to build the future.

California’s Adult-Use Cannabis Law ‘Failed Small Farmers,’ State Treasurer Says — Time to Start Over

November 10, 2025 No Comments

Fiona Ma argues California’s adult-use cannabis law favored big corporations over family growers and needs a total reset.

Why California’s Treasurer Says the State’s Adult-Use Cannabis Law Is a Failure

November 9, 2025 No Comments

California Treasurer Fiona Ma didn’t hold back at IgniteIt’s Market Spotlight: California. Calling the state’s adult-use legalization law “a failure,” she said enforcement is backward, taxes are punishing the compliant, and real reform starts with full descheduling, not half measures.

High Times and Hollywood Roll One Up: Join Our Cinema Sessions at The Woods Cannabis Lounge

November 6, 2025 No Comments

An open-air night of film, art, and cannabis culture brings Hollywood’s creative scene together under the stars.

OpEd: Dear California, This Isn’t Legalization

October 17, 2025 No Comments

In this powerful speech, industry leader Ben Larson critiques California’s restrictive cannabis policies and calls for smarter, more inclusive legalization that protects access to both regulated cannabis and innovative hemp-derived products.