Mormon Wives star Mikayla Matthews says medical cannabis changed how she manages nerve pain and sleep. Her experience also highlights a lesser-known reality: the Mormon Church allows medical cannabis under certain conditions, even as it rejects recreational use.
Research into pelvic pain, orgasmic difficulty, and reproductive health is beginning to reshape medical cannabis policy.
After three weeks of meditating with cannabis, the message was unexpected and sometimes painful. Cannabis is a mother and a healer. She is also, the writer says, angry.
A mother and cannabis consumer reflects on chronic pain, parenting stigma, and why she no longer hides part of who she is.
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.
“The babies with the most cannabis exposure did the best,” Dreher says. The study was published. Then they waited for backlash. Nothing happened. No outrage. No replication. No follow-up funding. “Either nobody read it,” she says, “or nobody wanted to touch it.”
For Mother’s Day, Maya Elisabeth asked mothers across the cannabis community to talk about the plant in their own words. What came back was honest, funny and completely their own.
Drag Race fan-favorite Laganja Estranja launches her first cannabis line, “Her Bold Sativa Blend,” on May 16, 2026 at Chicago’s SWAY Dispensary, Illinois’ first queer and Black-owned recreational cannabis dispensary. Cultivated by nuEra Cannabis, the line drops in 3.5g flower eighths and 5-pack pre-rolls, expanding statewide June 1 and built to outlast the typical Pride Month drop cycle.
At 55, Kimberly Ward is pushing back on old cannabis stereotypes with humor, motherhood, business experience and a phone full of viral videos. Kimberly Ward
Three woman-owned cannabis brands making beautiful, thoughtful gifts for the cannabis-loving mama in your life.
GÜD Essence CEO Jasmine Johnson has spent nearly a decade navigating Florida’s MMTC licensing system as a Black woman entrepreneur without institutional backing. In an exclusive High Times interview, she breaks down what equity in Florida cannabis actually looks like in practice, and what the state would need to change to make it real.
Two women in their 60s discover cannabis entrepreneurship and a growing network of women shaping the industry and supporting new consumers.
Mormon Wives star Mikayla Matthews says medical cannabis changed how she manages nerve pain and sleep. Her experience also highlights a lesser-known reality: the Mormon Church allows medical cannabis under certain conditions, even as it rejects recreational use.
Research into pelvic pain, orgasmic difficulty, and reproductive health is beginning to reshape medical cannabis policy.
After three weeks of meditating with cannabis, the message was unexpected and sometimes painful. Cannabis is a mother and a healer. She is also, the writer says, angry.
A mother and cannabis consumer reflects on chronic pain, parenting stigma, and why she no longer hides part of who she is.
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.
“The babies with the most cannabis exposure did the best,” Dreher says. The study was published. Then they waited for backlash. Nothing happened. No outrage. No replication. No follow-up funding. “Either nobody read it,” she says, “or nobody wanted to touch it.”
For Mother’s Day, Maya Elisabeth asked mothers across the cannabis community to talk about the plant in their own words. What came back was honest, funny and completely their own.
Drag Race fan-favorite Laganja Estranja launches her first cannabis line, “Her Bold Sativa Blend,” on May 16, 2026 at Chicago’s SWAY Dispensary, Illinois’ first queer and Black-owned recreational cannabis dispensary. Cultivated by nuEra Cannabis, the line drops in 3.5g flower eighths and 5-pack pre-rolls, expanding statewide June 1 and built to outlast the typical Pride Month drop cycle.
At 55, Kimberly Ward is pushing back on old cannabis stereotypes with humor, motherhood, business experience and a phone full of viral videos. Kimberly Ward is a cannabis creator, entrepreneur, mother of three and part of the Harbor Farmz cannabis business in Michigan. She does not fit the old stereotype. That is exactly the point. In a space still fighting
Three woman-owned cannabis brands making beautiful, thoughtful gifts for the cannabis-loving mama in your life.
GÜD Essence CEO Jasmine Johnson has spent nearly a decade navigating Florida’s MMTC licensing system as a Black woman entrepreneur without institutional backing. In an exclusive High Times interview, she breaks down what equity in Florida cannabis actually looks like in practice, and what the state would need to change to make it real.
Two women in their 60s discover cannabis entrepreneurship and a growing network of women shaping the industry and supporting new consumers.
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