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Prehistoric High: 25,000-Year-Old Teeth May Hold the Oldest Evidence of Psychoactive Drug Use
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.
Mexico’s Supreme Court Says Cooking With Cannabis Is Allowed—With a Personal-Use Permit
Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that cooking with cannabis can be covered under a personal-use permit, expanding the scope of recreational self-consumption without legalizing commercial edibles.
High Times Cannabis Cup Montana 2026: The Complete Winners List
Wild Sky Farms won both hybrid and indica. Funk Farm placed in all three flower categories and finished with more medals than anyone. And three of the six edible and gummy medals went to products that lead with their extraction method. Every winner from the High Times Cannabis Cup Montana.
Broken, Built and Bruised: Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of 9/11
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Todd Harrison reflects on what he saw from 40 Fulton Street, the friend he lost at Cantor Fitzgerald and how trauma eventually led him to cannabis.
A Magazine From 1969 Made the Case the DEA Is Making Now. It Also Named the People Who Would Spend 57 Years Stalling.
The Marijuana Review, published out of a Buffalo dorm room in January 1969 with Allen Ginsberg listed among its advisers, argued that the science on cannabis was already sufficient and that the people demanding more research would never be satisfied. Fifty-seven years later, the DEA made the same argument in a federal proceeding, against the same objection.
Inside the Mushroom-and-Hemp Coffin Designed to Return Bodies to the Earth
Dutch company Loop Biotech’s Living Cocoon is a biodegradable coffin made from mycelium and recycled hemp fibers that can break down in roughly 45 days while helping return nutrients to the soil. The concept gained fresh attention after a 70-year-old woman named Carolyn became the first person in Australia to be buried in one. What […]
CBG Protected Memory in a Schizophrenia Model. The Reason It Worked Wasn’t the One Scientists Expected.
Repeated CBG treatment prevented a long-term recognition memory deficit in male rats given MK-801, a compound used to model the cognitive impairments seen in schizophrenia. CBG did not restore the BDNF protein levels MK-801 had lowered, but it raised TrkB messenger RNA in the medial prefrontal cortex, pointing to a mechanism the researchers had not expected.
Magic Garden Botanicals Meets Sound System Culture
At Submersion Festival, Magic Garden Botanicals’ Smoke Village connects a Tri-State cannabis brand to a music tradition long associated with the plant.
Trump Commutes Two Cannabis Sentences—But What About Rescheduling?
President Donald Trump commuted the federal marijuana sentences of Jerry Haymon IV and Kevin Harden as his administration continues a broader process that could move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. Their cases sharpen a longstanding question in cannabis reform: what happens to people punished under federal marijuana laws while the government is actively […]
New Zealand Joins Australia in Opening Restricted Access to MDMA for PTSD
New Zealand has authorized two psychiatrists to prescribe pharmaceutical-grade MDMA to selected adults with PTSD, creating a tightly controlled treatment pathway while the drug remains officially unapproved.
High Times Cannabis Cup Montana 2026: The Complete Winners List
Wild Sky Farms won both hybrid and indica. Funk Farm placed in all three flower categories and finished with more medals than anyone. And three of the six edible and gummy medals went to products that lead with their extraction method. Every winner from the High Times Cannabis Cup Montana.
Broken, Built and Bruised: Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of 9/11
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Todd Harrison reflects on what he saw from 40 Fulton Street, the friend he lost at Cantor Fitzgerald and how trauma eventually led him to cannabis.
A Magazine From 1969 Made the Case the DEA Is Making Now. It Also Named the People Who Would Spend 57 Years Stalling.
The Marijuana Review, published out of a Buffalo dorm room in January 1969 with Allen Ginsberg listed among its advisers, argued that the science on cannabis was already sufficient and that the people demanding more research would never be satisfied. Fifty-seven years later, the DEA made the same argument in a federal proceeding, against the same objection.
Inside the Mushroom-and-Hemp Coffin Designed to Return Bodies to the Earth
Dutch company Loop Biotech’s Living Cocoon is a biodegradable coffin made from mycelium and recycled hemp fibers that can break down in roughly 45 days while helping return nutrients to the soil. The concept gained fresh attention after a 70-year-old woman named Carolyn became the first person in Australia to be buried in one. What […]
India Was Forced to Outlaw Cannabis. I Think It’s Time to Undo That Mistake.
I’ve spent more than 50 years fighting cannabis prohibition in the United States. In 1980 I photographed a legal, government-regulated ganja harvest in India. Six years later it was criminalized, under a treaty India signed at U.S. insistence. Now I’m taking what I’ve learned there.
‘They Used It as a Weapon Against My Father’: Fela Kuti’s Sons on Weed and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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 […]
In Texas, One Delta-8 THC Gummy Can Carry More Prison Time Than an Ounce of Weed
A single four-gram delta-8 gummy can now expose its owner to a felony bracket that runs to twenty years, because Texas weighs the whole product and a gummy is mostly sugar. An ounce of marijuana is still a misdemeanor. The Legislature never voted for any of it, and the delta-9 gummies that survived the crackdown are legal on a technicality federal law erases in November.
Beware of the Chads
Berner calls them the Chads: the ones who arrive with contracts and agendas and no feel for the plant. A new wave of institutional money is about to be free to deploy into cannabis, and the last one took MedMen, Flow Kana, Canopy and High Times itself from the people who built them. Rolando García on what the term sheets did, and what the founders who kept control did differently.
Hawaii Banned Smokable Hemp in 2020. Stores Sold It Openly for Five Years. Then the Crackdown Began.
Hawaii’s Act 14 prohibited smokable hemp in 2020. For five years stores sold flower, pre-rolls and vapes openly, hired staff and built a customer base on top of it. Then the 2025 registration law gave the state inspection and seizure powers, enforcement began, and one Oahu retailer says he lost 90% of his revenue in weeks. Both things are true at once, and only one of them shows up in the statute.
Ren and Chris Webby Got High in the Woods and Made the Best Album I’ve Heard All Year
I found Ren by accident in a Chicago hotel room and I’ve been interviewing Chris Webby since 2018. They met through a comment section, holed up in a house in the Connecticut woods and came out with fifteen songs that didn’t exist when they walked in. It’s the best album I’ve heard all year, and the documentary explains why: you can hear the friendship.
Trump Just Delayed the Hemp Ban. The New Deadline Is the Day Government Funding Runs Out.
Trump signed H.R. 6500 on Wednesday, giving the hemp industry twenty-nine extra days. December 11 is also the day the stopgap funding bill expires, so if Congress needs another hemp fix it will be negotiating inside the next appropriations fight. And one deadline didn’t move: products containing cannabinoids the cannabis plant can’t naturally produce still lose federal hemp status on November 12, with the FDA list that would identify them still unpublished nearly seven months past its deadline.
Massachusetts Is Voting on Whether to Shut Down a $10B Legal Weed Market. Here’s What You Need to Know
No American state has ever voted to repeal an existing adult-use marijuana legalization law. Massachusetts gets the chance in nine weeks. Question 8 would repeal two chapters of law, end licensed sales on January 1, 2028 and eliminate home growing. One donor paid for the entire campaign that put it on the ballot, and the side defending legalization spent most of the past year in court instead of on television.
High Times Strains of the Month: September 2026
Terp Sherpa David Downs rounds up ten strains blazing up the charts in legal states for the start of fall, from the Zalympix-sweeping Giraffe P to a $20,000 Peach Tree clone, plus Maine Trees’ BBL2, Fig Farms’ Hijinx and a Michigan Fruit Loops on a four-win tear.
Are You an Intense, Slow or Double Puffer? Scientists Found Three Ways People Smoke Joints.
Intense, slow and double puff. Researchers took a flowmeter to smoke sessions in five states, kept 51 usable readings and found the gentle pull moves more smoke than the hard one. All three profiles came in bigger than the cigarette settings cannabis smoke research has relied on for decades.
$10 Million Meant for Florida’s Children’s Health Care Was Misappropriated to Help Kill Legal Weed, Grand Jury Finds
A Leon County grand jury concluded the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million owed to Florida’s Healthy Kids program and moved it “as part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities,” with $8.5 million landing in the committee that fought marijuana legalization. No one was charged, because no witness would say who made the decision. Uthmeier and Moody are both on the November ballot, and Republicans including Rick Scott are now criticizing the administration too.
Submersion Knows a Festival Lives or Dies in the Details
Submersion’s founders built a boutique festival around careful curation, harm reduction, sunrise sets, and a cannabis lounge with a purpose.
Who Gets to Name a Weed Strain? Nobody. Everybody.
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.
The Industry Bet Against Bud. Flower Smokers Never Left.
Grown Rogue CEO Obie Strickler argues cannabis leaders misread the market by predicting flower would lose its grip on regular consumers.
Weed Can’t Get Past 34%. The Labels Go to 42%. The System Rewards the Lie.
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.
The Future of Cannabis Tourism Starts on the Farm
Cannabis farm visits can educate travelers, support small growers, and connect consumers with Northern California’s land, people, and history.
Must Reads
Dead Cats, Drag Clowns, and the Weirdest Awards in Indie Film
Dead cats, devil babies, drag-clown cannibals, and a Best 420 award marked the Weird Short Film Festival’s gloriously unhinged debut.
Cannabis Banking Is Still Broken. This Credit Union Built Around It.
Rescheduling didn’t fix cannabis banking. Black Hills Federal Credit Union explains what operators need, where the system falls short, and what compliance takes.
New Jersey Cannabis Comes Together at Shore House Canna’s Fall Fest
Shore House Canna’s Fall Fest returns to Rea’s Farm in West Cape May for a free day of cannabis, community, brands, games, and live coverage.
Can Weed Feel Like Magic Mushrooms? Johns Hopkins Researchers Put THC to the Test
A four-person Johns Hopkins pilot study found that 25 mg of oral THC could produce altered-state profiles that qualitatively resembled those seen with 25 mg of psilocybin, particularly when consumed in a setting modeled on psychedelic research. The sample is far too small to establish cannabis as a psychedelic, but the findings add to earlier research suggesting that dose, context, and individual response can push THC experiences into unexpectedly psychedelic-like territory.
LEVIA’s Founders Sold Their Company. Then They Bought It Back.
LEVIA founders Eric and Kristin built a cannabis beverage brand, watched it change inside an MSO, and returned to build the next version on their own terms.
CBGB Festival Returns to Brooklyn With a Cannabis Tie-In
CBGB Festival returns to Brooklyn September 26 with Morrissey, Patti Smith, Interpol, Sex Pistols, Woodstock Cannabis, and High Times in the mix.
At Hash Hole Island, the Joints Are Six Times the Standard Size
Most hash holes are built with about a gram and a half of flower and half a gram of rosin. The ones going around at Hash Hole Island run six times that. Four years in, our photographer still can’t finish one on his own.
Are You Overpaying for Weed? High Times Brought Back Its 1974 Price Tracker to Tell You.
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.
Revelry Buyers’ Club Returns to Pier 36 After Record Hudson Turnout
After drawing 2,800 attendees and 562 licensed retail stores in Hudson, Revelry brings Buyers’ Club Fall to Manhattan on September 18.
Massive Weed Lab Explosion Leaves Two Dead and a Trail of Questions
A deadly explosion at a cannabis extraction facility in Sand Springs left two workers dead, damaged at least 25 businesses and raised serious questions about licensing, hazardous materials and safety violations.
Sonoma County Sent Drones to Find Illegal Weed. Keni Meyer Lost Her Home Over Building-Code Violations Unrelated to Cannabis.
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.
We Legalized Weed… So Why Does It Still Feel Broken?
We legalized weed in most states. So why does it still feel broken? Ten voices on the cannabis frontline explain what got built, what got broken and what’s still worth saving.
The Weed Moral Panic Afroman Mocked in 2001 Is Back. His Song Aged Into a Weapon.
Rolling Stone tracked Afroman’s path from novelty rapper to free-speech folk hero. Here is the part that got cut: why “Because I Got High” plays completely differently in 2026 than it did in 2001.
Never Mind Manchesterism, Britain’s Next PM Should Consider Marijuanaism
Andy Burnham wants to be bold. James Matthewson argues there’s no better way to do it than finally ending the war on weed and pouring the proceeds into teen mental health.
The Stony Awards Are Back: Meet the Class of 2026
Cannabis culture doesn’t live in boardrooms. It lives in grow rooms, backyards, studios and the backseat of a Honda Civic. The Stonys are back, and we’re celebrating the people who keep the culture alive.
Why Legal Cannabis Doesn’t Belong Next to Gambling and Porn
Legal cannabis may carry risks. But treating it like gambling or AI pornography flattens the debate and ignores the public health, economic and regulatory benefits legalization can create.
Light It Up: Why NORML Still Matters in the 21st Century
Cannabis feels normal in 2026. But the fight isn’t over. NORML’s Christopher Cano on why the movement needs you more than ever.
Mexico’s Congress Has Had Four Years to Pass a Cannabis Law. 15,000 People Just Ran Out of Patience.
15,000 people marched down Paseo de la Reforma on May 2nd demanding the cannabis law Mexico’s Congress has owed since 2021. A firsthand chronicle of a march that also had streets in Colombia and Chile.
Legal Weed, Unequal Justice: Mary Bailey’s Fight to Free Cannabis Prisoners
Mary Bailey co-founded Last Prisoner Project after a social media video stopped her cold. Since then, LPP has provided millions in legal services and helped free some of the longest-serving cannabis prisoners in the country. She’s not done.
Matt Zorn and the Next Phase of America’s Drug Policy Revolution
The renegade litigator who spent a decade suing federal drug agencies is now writing their policy from inside the building. What his trajectory tells us about how social movements actually succeed — and fail.
What Happens When Cannabis Magazines are Too Scandalous for Dispensaries?
When a partner dispensary refused to carry Fat Nugs Magazine’s Kids and Cannabis issue, it raised a harder question: who decides what cannabis conversations are allowed to happen?
Rescheduling Doesn’t Free Anyone. Advocates Are Calling on Trump to Add Clemency.
The Trump administration rescheduled medical marijuana to Schedule III. Advocates from Last Prisoner Project, NORML and MPP say the move falls short without clemency for people still incarcerated for cannabis.
High Times And Last Prisoner Project Launch Ongoing Partnership To Fight For Cannabis Prisoners
High Times and Last Prisoner Project are launching an ongoing partnership aimed at keeping cannabis prisoners at the center of the movement. The collaboration will amplify prisoner stories, support justice efforts and encourage readers to take action.
Legalization Was Supposed to Be Bad for Kids. It Turned Out to Be the Opposite
Thirty years into the transition to regulated cannabis markets, teen use and ease of access are at or near the lowest levels ever recorded. It’s prohibition — not legalization — that put kids most at risk. This is an op-ed contribution from Adam J. Smith, Executive Director of the Marijuana Policy Project. The views expressed […]
He Spent 50 Years Fighting for Cannabis Freedom. Now He’s in an Idaho Prison Being Held for Marijuana Addiction Treatment
Dana Beal helped build the cannabis legalization movement — organizing smoke-ins, founding the Global Marijuana March, bringing ibogaine to Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines. He appeared in a Hulu documentary that premiered today. He is also 79 years old, sitting in an Idaho prison, and being held longer than his sentence requires.
This 4/20, Remember The Cannabis Prisoners Legalization Left Behind
Stephanie Shepard writes that 4/20 should not only celebrate cannabis culture, but also confront the people still serving decades and life sentences for the same plant.
How Free Do You Actually Feel as a Cannabis Consumer? NORML Wants to Know
NORML’s 2026 Cannabis Freedom Survey asks how free consumers actually feel, not just what the law says. Takes one minute. Results matter.
She Paid $150,000 for a Florida Cannabis License and Got Nothing. Then She Found Another Way In.
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.
This Is What Cannabis Prohibition Actually Costs American Families
Cannabis prohibition impacts patients, safety, and jobs. Here’s how outdated policy continues to affect American families.
The UK’s ‘Cannabis Martyr’ Keeps Opening Weed Cafes. Britain Keeps Locking Him Up.
Gary Youds has spent nearly 20 years opening cannabis cafes in Liverpool, getting raided, getting jailed, and refusing to stop.
In 40 Years, MAPS Partnered With Universities, Clinicians and the Pentagon. It Just Signed Its First Deal With a Weed Shop.
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.
The US Open Reeks of Weed, Again: Tennis Pros Have Thoughts
At the US Open, the smell of weed is back in force — like someone just cracked open Snoop Dogg’s laundry bag. From Court 17 to the park courts, players have plenty to say about it.
The New Rules of Shopping for Cannabinoids
How cannabinoid combinations are formulated, what THC changes, and how to read the label and the lab report before you buy.
The Record That Decides Whether Weed Leaves Schedule I Just Needed 294 Corrections. A Few Reversed What Witnesses Said.
A Tennessee investigator testified that cannabis shipments arrive with paperwork claiming legal levels of delta-9 THC, and the lab finds much higher. For six weeks the record said illegal. That was one of 294 corrections Judge Derek Julius ordered before the DEA published the full 2,533-page transcript. Most are clerical. A handful changed what a witness said, including one that had the direction of rescheduling backwards.
Dave Asprey Built Biohacking as a Trojan Horse for Higher Consciousness
Dave Asprey talks psychedelics, plant intelligence, integration, surrender, and why biohacking was always a path toward higher consciousness.
Did Tupac’s Friends Really Smoke His Ashes? The Full Story Behind the Legend
Members of Outlawz have long claimed they mixed Tupac Shakur’s ashes with weed and smoked them after his death. Years later, Suge Knight offered a similar account, adding new details to one of hip-hop’s strangest legends.
Weed Is Legal in Half of America. There’s Still an Arrest Every 157 Seconds.
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.
Trump Signed an Order Paying Farmers to Heal Their Soil. Weed Growers Get Nothing.
In June, Trump signed an executive order paying farmers to rebuild their soil. Hemp growers qualify. State-licensed cannabis growers do not. Inside the certifiers and the small farms doing the work anyway, from mycorrhizal inoculation to a Vermont field fed by dairy manure and spent brewery grain.
A 10-Year-Old Built an AI “Nose” for Airports. Could It One Day Detect Drugs?
A 10-year-old inventor from Taiwan built an AI-assisted “electronic nose” designed to analyze the air around luggage. It started as a pork detector, but the same concept could one day help identify drugs like fentanyl.
Stacey Rusch Knows How to Sell a Story
Stacey Rusch went from yoga and QVC to reality TV and cannabis. SHAYO may be her latest act, but the real story is how she learned to command a room.
Why Does Watching The World Cup Feel Like A Panic Attack? Weed Can Help, If You Don’t Screw It Up.
A World Cup match can hit your nervous system like a real threat and send your cortisol through the roof. A psychiatrist with a cannabis specialty breaks down how THC, CBD, breathing and the right crowd can keep 90 minutes of tension from turning into a panic attack.
How Cannabis Creators Beat Social Media Censorship — One ‘Broccoli’ at a Time
Cannabis creators are fighting a war of semantics against social media algorithms — and losing accounts in the process. Here’s the survival playbook, straight from those who’ve cracked the code.
Does Rescheduling Help Home Growers? Even Cannabis Lawyers Are Split
Four prominent cannabis attorneys read the same rescheduling order and reached different conclusions about home growers. The strict reading says personal cultivation stays Schedule I. The broader reading says licensed patient cultivation drops to Schedule III. The warning: qualifying for Schedule III may bring federal obligations, not freedom.
Marijuana Reclassification Explained: What the Trump Administration’s Schedule 3 Move Actually Means
The Trump administration officially reclassified medical marijuana to Schedule III. It’s not legalization. Here’s what the move actually does and doesn’t change for dispensaries, patients and the industry.
Air Fryer Changed Your Life? Now You Can Also Decarb Weed
Decarboxylation is the first step for cooking with cannabis, which implies applying heat. This is where the air-fryer comes in, replacing the oven and adding precision to the process.
Cannabis Rescheduling May Sound Like a Win. Here’s Why It’s Complicated
Rescheduling could ease taxes and acknowledge medical use, but it also raises serious questions about who wins, who loses and what still stays illegal.
The High Times Guide to THCA: What It Is, How It Works, and Why Everyone’s Talking About It
THCA is the loophole lighting up the weed world. Here’s how it works, why it’s legal (for now), and what really happens when you spark it.
Can Weed Mend a Broken Heart? A High Times Survival Guide
Can weed assist heartbreak? Could it pull us out of the doldrums of love? When we light up, is there life beyond love? We talked to experts.
Here’s How Much Your Old ‘High Times’ Issues May Be Worth
From first-print identifiers to grading standards and signed copies, here’s what actually moves prices for High Times collectors.
Past the Quick Hit: Tips for Storing Cannabis
Growers share the best ways to preserve the potency and flavor of weed.
A Beginner’s Guide for Watering Cannabis Plants
Water is an essential part of a cannabis plant’s life; however, as a beginner grower, it can be challenging to know just how much water to give them. We have all been there as first-time growers, wondering what the right amount to provide them with is. In this article, I will cover everything you need […]
High Times Guide To Talking Sex With Your Partner While Smoking Weed
After a few puffs, many couples feel more relaxed, more introspective and willing to open up emotionally. The right setting, next to the right person, can lead to deep, loving, and crazy conversations.
No Pesticides, No Problem: How Tiny Predators Keep Your Cannabis Safe From Pests
Bugs, not pesticides, are helping cannabis growers protect their plants. Here’s how natural predators keep your weed pest-free.
A Resinous Fruit, A Cloud Of Smoke: A Beginner’s Guide To Spotting Fresh Bud
How to tell if your weed is really fresh: no mold, no mildew, no nasty surprises. A simple guide to finding buds worth smoking.
High Five: Five Health Organizations that Support Cannabis Research
Many national health organizations support medical cannabis research.
Manage Your Munchies: This Year’s Top 420 Meal Deals
Del Taco, Popeyes, Jimmy John’s, Wingstop, Fatburger, Cheba Hut, Ben & Jerry’s, QDOBA, and Ike’s Sandwiches dropped their 420 deals for the holiday weekend.
Spring Planting Tips
A beginner’s guide to growing a happy and healthy plant.
How To Navigate the Perils of Pre-Roll Automation
Industry veterans share advice and cautionary tales on investing in pre-roll automation.
Cannabeginners: What is Humulene?
From bitter to sweet this common cannabis terpene gives hops its unique flavor.
Jon’s Stone-Cold Cop List #48: Americans in Spain
For March’s Cop List our VP of Content includes a collection of products from both America and Spain. This month’s list includes Hall of Flame, Heirbloom, Bando Farmers, No Till Kings, the Bud Professor and more…
HIGH TIMES RETURNS: The Counterculture Giant Reclaims Its Roots
For nearly five decades, High Times stood as the unapologetic voice of cannabis counterculture. More than just a magazine, it was a platform that elevated music, politics, psychedelics, activism, and the plant itself. It was a symbol of rebellion, freedom, and community. Then came the spectacular fall, the kind that made it feel like High […]
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Chile Sent 500 Police to Raid a Cannabis Patient Organization Serving 16,000 People. Prosecutors Call It Organized Crime.
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.
Who Are the Latino Leaders Cannabis Should Know? Nominations Open Friday for the First Latino Power 100.
High Times, the National Hispanic Cannabis Council and El Planteo are launching a new annual list recognizing 100 Latino and Hispanic leaders shaping cannabis worldwide. Nominations open August 21 and close September 11. Anyone can put forward a candidate, including themselves, from anywhere in the world.
‘Marijuana Can No Longer Remain in Schedule I’: Inside the Government’s Final Case for Rescheduling Weed—and the Witnesses It Tore Apart
The government’s 50-page closing argument asks Judge Derek Julius to “expeditiously recommend” moving marijuana to Schedule III. Its closing section attacks the credibility of nearly every witness who opposed the change and quotes several of them making the medical case anyway. The DEA’s own pharmacologist appears once. The opposition’s brief cites her 25 times. Plus: the judge’s transcript-correction order, filed Thursday.
Lev Parnas Says He Almost Became a Weed Mogul. Then Came Trump, Ukraine and Prison. Now He’s Running for Congress on a Legalization Platform.
He almost became a weed mogul. Instead, he became Trump’s man in Ukraine, a central figure in the first impeachment and a federal inmate. Lev Parnas on the Trulieve deal that got away, the memo he brought Trump on legalizing marijuana and why he’s running for Congress as an independent.
Rush’s Alex Lifeson Quit Weed at 72—Says He Never Expected to Feel This Good
Alex Lifeson quit cannabis at 72 while preparing for Rush’s return to the road, saying he wanted better focus, discipline, memory, and mental sharpness. After decades of openly enjoying weed, he says the change has been unexpectedly positive—even if he initially hoped it wouldn’t be. At 72, after decades of having a pretty open relationship […]
Gillian Anderson Opens Up About Drugs: Meth, a School Arrest, and a Bad Weed Trip
Before becoming Dana Scully and spending years investigating unexplained phenomena on The X-Files, Gillian Anderson found herself in a teenage episode that could easily have ended up in one of those files. The actress recounted that, as a teenager, she was arrested after breaking into her school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at night. As she […]
Barcelona’s Plan Druida Is Turning Up the Pressure on Cannabis Clubs
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.
Matthew McConaughey Got So High He Missed His Own Birthday Party After Playing the Same Song 24 Times
Matthew McConaughey says one unexpectedly intense high left him sitting outside his own birthday party, replaying Janet Jackson’s “That’s the Way Love Goes” 24 times—and ultimately rethinking weed altogether.
A Plane Dropped 300 Feet. The Pilot Tested Positive for Weed. Almost Nobody Mentioned He Wasn’t the One Flying It.
Air India flight AI2379 dropped roughly 300 feet over the Odisha coast on August 4, injuring 24 people. Its captain later tested positive for cannabis, and that became the story. What most of the coverage buried: the first officer was at the controls, the captain was standing behind his seat, and Airbus says all three hydraulic systems lost pressure while the elevators and ailerons went unresponsive for about four seconds.
Can THC Quiet PTSD Nightmares? New Research Offers Clues
A new study published in Nature Medicine found that dronabinol, a pharmaceutical form of THC, significantly reduced trauma-related nightmares in people with PTSD. The findings raise new questions about the relationship between cannabis, REM sleep, and how the brain processes traumatic experiences at night.
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Black Cannabis Week Returns to Philadelphia Sept. 20-27, With a Free Expungement Clinic
The ninth annual Cannabis Opportunities Conference anchors three days of policy panels, workforce programming, scholarships and a pitch event for early-stage founders. Sunday’s Community Day is free and open to the public.
Barney’s Farm: 40 Years of Cannabis Seed Genetics
Barney’s Farm marks 40 years of award-winning cannabis genetics — with new F1 precision hybrids, autoflower F1s, and expansion across the US and Germany.
The Americans Most Convinced Weed Is Bad for You Don’t Smoke It Themselves. So, How Do They Know?
10% of Republicans smoke cannabis and 24% call its effect very negative. Among adults 18 to 34 it’s 27% and 8%. Where use is highest, condemnation is lowest, and the reverse. The one thing Gallup’s crosstabs actually show, and the several things they don’t.
The FDA Wants to Know How You Use Cannabis—Useful or Concerning?
The FDA is seeking outside data and analytics services to better understand how people use cannabis, CBD, and other emerging products through public social-media conversations, consumer surveys, and market intelligence. The request does not establish access to private messages, but it does point to a much more systematic federal effort to analyze how cannabis consumers […]
100% More THC = 15% Stronger High. So Why Did Weed Spend 30 Years Chasing the Number?
Doubling an inhaled dose of THC from 5 mg to 10 mg moves the self-reported high from 34 to 39 on a 100-point scale. The market spent 30 years chasing the number anyway. Four researchers on what a percentage does and doesn’t tell you, and what replaces it.
The Universal Baller Put My Daily Driver in the Ground
After years of testing vaporizers, the Universal Baller replaced the author’s longtime daily driver in a week. Here’s why the $500 ball vape won.
Speed Without Compromise: Eight New Autoflower Strains From Barney’s Farm
Meet eight new autoflower strains from Barney’s Farm: dessert-sweet Cookies cuts, landrace Afghan power and diesel punch, all in a fast, light-independent cycle.
Exclusive: New Study Finds People Drinking THC Beverages Reached for Alcohol Half as Often. Every Product Tested Is About to Be Banned.
MoreBetter tracked 4,516 people across 36 hemp THC beverages for three weeks each. On days participants drank one, their modeled probability of also drinking alcohol fell from 22.9% to 10.9%, significant for 23 of the 36 products and moving the same direction in every case. Fifty days after the study ended, 63% of those surveyed said they were still drinking less. None of the 36 products would clear the federal cap arriving in November.
Athletes on Medical Cannabis Want Sleep and Focus, Not Muscle Recovery, Study Finds
Every CBD-for-athletes pitch has sold recovery. A report on 47,522 patients who train and use medical cannabis points somewhere else entirely.
The Death of a Fifth-Generation Vermont Farm
A fifth-generation Vermont farmer recounts how hemp collapse, debt, COVID, and cannabis oversaturation contributed to losing his family farm.
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‘I Was Kind of High for a Lot of This’: Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat on Getting Stoned to Make ‘The Wrong Girls’
Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat play best-friend stoners on the run in Dylan Meyer’s “The Wrong Girls,” a decade in the making. They talk about getting high on set, why Shawkat’s two accidental highs produced some of the best scenes in the movie, and the two-shot as an art form.
‘I Want to Go Home’: The Time Blink-182 Got Stupid High With Cypress Hill Before a Show
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.
Opinion: Cannabis Should Be Mandatory. The ‘Normie’ World Needs a Joint More Than Anyone.
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.
Australia Bans ‘Halloween’ Video Game Over Weed, Not Its Brutal Violence
Australia banned Halloween: The Game, but not because of its brutal violence. A cannabis-related gameplay mechanic was enough to earn the horror title a Refused Classification.
Highdro’s New Video Turns a Vegas Pool Cleaning Into a Smoke Session
The Las Vegas rapper’s new video follows a pool maintenance worker who gets pulled into a backyard session that keeps escalating, with cameos from DJ Bonics, Grasshoppa, The Bearded Larry and a FaceTime appearance from RAW founder Josh Kesselman.
What Happened to the Cannabis Goody Bag?
Cannabis goody bags used to overflow with free weed. Hannah Eko wonders what their decline says about generosity, community, and cannabis culture.
Stoners Warned Us About Flock Cameras. Turns Out It Wasn’t Paranoia.
A criminal complaint in Wisconsin describes Michigan as a “known source State for marijuana, as it is legal there.” A Michigan dispensary was ordered to point a police camera at its own parking lot. And Roseville, California’s own analysis found Flock misread the plate in 71% of the alerts it sent officers. The people who warned about this weren’t being paranoid. They were remembering.
Snoop Dogg’s Father Can Get Almost Any Weed He Wants. He Still Can’t Find Panama Red.
Vernell Varnado bought his first weed in a red-topped matchbox in 1966. Sixty years later, Snoop Dogg’s father walks into legal dispensaries in Arizona and still can’t find what he’s looking for. On Vietnam, the Post Office, backyard grows and the strains that don’t exist anymore.
Mike Jones Can’t Smoke With Unmotivated People
The “Still Tippin’” legend on his health journey, why California still wins, brushing his teeth before during and after, and the one thing that can ruin a smoke session: somebody who ain’t motivated.
Rick Ross Doesn’t Want Dispensary Weed
Rick Ross lights up for High Times and talks control, the black market, dispensary weed he can’t stand, turning 50, and why he never sold his cannabis life like a gimmick. “We want the best dope on the planet.”
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Congress Wants To Ban The Drink That Helped Rosario Dawson’s Dad Through Chemo. She’s Not Having It.
Rosario Dawson’s father took some of his cancer medications off the pile, and a low-dose THC drink was one of the things he used to manage how he felt. Now she’s fighting a change in federal law that would clear most of those drinks from hemp shelves this November, and making the case that the mildest product in cannabis reached the people who needed it most.
‘Super Troopers 3’ Was Written By Stoners. Director Jay Chandrasekhar Wants You To Watch It Like One.
Jay Chandrasekhar sat down, smoked up and got surprisingly candid about legal weed, stoner movies, and why a good R-rated comedy might be exactly what the country needs right now.
Watch: Berner Saved This ‘Throwaway’ Strain. Now It’s a High Times Strain of the Month.
Berner pulled a written-off strain back from the scrap pile, then stood in a Berlin hall with 80,000 people and felt the unity the weed business had lost. His rule has not changed: trust the nose and the people, not the paperwork.
Scary Movie’s Officer Doofy Became a Stoner Icon. Nobody Is More Surprised Than the Guy Who Played Him.
Dave Sheridan played Officer Doofy in Scary Movie, the deputy revealed as the man behind the Ghostface-style mask. That grinning face became a cannabis icon somewhere along the way, and 25 years later, with it now on a PAX vape, Sheridan is still working out how the culture got there first.
Yesod Williams Brought the Ohana to Point Break Festival
Pepper drummer Yesod Williams reflects on Point Break Festival, reggae rock’s family spirit, Hawaiian cannabis, Sublime, surfing, and fatherhood.
Oliver Tree Deals Art: Remembering The Late Singer Through His 2020 High Times Interview
The bowl cut aficionado chats music, filmmaking, and excelling as a high school weed dealer.
Bradley Nowell Died At 28 And Never Saw Sublime Blow Up. 30 Years Later, His Son Is Fronting The Band.
Drummer Bud Gaugh and former manager Jon Phillips on Sublime’s chaotic rise, Bradley Nowell’s death a month before stardom, and how his son Jakob, the baby from the “What I Got” video, became the band’s frontman 30 years later.
Twenty-One Years Later, Conor Oberst Is More Wide Awake Than Ever
Twenty-one years after Bright Eyes changed indie music, Conor Oberst reflects on cannabis, sobriety, survival, and revisiting the albums that shaped a generation.
Kal Penn Knows Exactly Why People Keep Offering Him Weed
Kal Penn talks to High Times about finally meeting Cheech Marin, the strain deal he should have gotten years ago and why Harold & Kumar’s accidental ambassador is still getting offered weed everywhere he goes.
Bam Margera: ‘Weed Does Not Lead To Other Drugs. It Leads To Fucking Carpentry.’
In an exclusive High Times interview, the Jackass icon and his wife Dannii Marie talk recovery, sleep, bad trips, psychedelic ceremonies and why their new brand feels less like a launch and more like a life.
‘Cannabis Is an Act of Rebellion’: Latin Superstar Farruko on Weed, Healing and Fighting the System
The Puerto Rican hitmaker says cannabis is bigger than business, framing the plant as medicine, resistance, and a way to challenge the machine that taught people to fear it.
AEW’s Marina Shafir Hits Hard, Smokes Weed, and Would Rather Talk About Family
The AEW star gets candid about loss, love, life on the road, and the role cannabis has played in helping her stay grounded through it all.
Before Weed Learned To Fake Female Empowerment, Harlee Case Made It Real. Now She’s Giving It A Soundtrack.
Before New Constellations started turning heads with dreamy synth-pop and soft-focus heat, Harlee Case was already building a different kind of scene in Portland: femme, weird, welcoming, and very, very stoned.
A Republican Weed CEO Wants To Be Governor. Can Cannabis Be His Bridge Issue?
Duke Rodriguez runs Ultra Health and is running for governor of New Mexico as a Republican. In a moment when “rescheduling” is still only a federal directive, not a finished reality, he argues cannabis can shift from a partisan fight to a practical test of governance: rules people can follow, honest labeling, real oversight, and a legal market that can actually compete with the illicit one.
From Fear to Obsession: Meet Highdro, the Serpentine Prophet Who Blends Rap, Weed & Reptiles
Two sharp fangs pierce a thin layer of skin. There have been several bites throughout his life, but he still remembers that first one. “I’ll never forget it.” His muscles twitch in a chaotic melody, and in that sudden burst, far from terrifying him, something clicked in his brain. Was that what had been scaring […]
Weir All on Weed: What Bob Weir Really Thought About Pot
“Calling the Grateful Dead a ‘drug band’ is technically true — and utterly bullshit,” says David Gans. Here’s what Weir did, didn’t, and never judged.
He Was Sentenced to 55 Years for Weed. Now He’s the Connector Behind Trump’s Cannabis Push.
Once a federal marijuana defendant facing a stacked sentence, Angelos now works the same levers that crushed him, arguing rescheduling could change who gets charged, how hard, and what happens next.
‘Survivor’ Didn’t Break Them. Real Life Did. Then They Found Weed.
Two Survivor champions on illness, aging bodies, and discovering cannabis when it finally made sense.
Music for Mushrooms Isn’t What You Think It Is
A conversation with East Forest about music, psychedelics, and why attention, not escape, might be the real medicine.
From Prison to Pot Shop: Inside Coss Marte’s Con Empire
This Lower East Side institution is rebuilding bodies and minds.
Wu-Tang Is for the Children—Now ODB’s Son Has to Prove It
On the anniversary of Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s death, Icelene Jones reflects on her late husband—and her son’s mission now.
John Waters’ Drug Confessions: ‘I’ve Taken Every One’
A High Times great returns with holiday stories, hard-earned perspective, and the sharpest advice in show business, from pot-written movies to LSD at 70 and why “loving everybody” is his idea of a nightmare.
Jessimae Peluso Didn’t Use Weed to Numb Grief — She Used It to Face It
After losing both parents, the comedian turned to cannabis not to escape the pain, but to sit with it — and built a community around honesty, humor and healing.
Parliament-Funkadelic’s George Clinton: ‘America Made More Money Pretending to Stop Weed Than Selling It’
The P-Funk legend teams with Wiz Khalifa on The Funk—and says the system made more money pretending to stop weed than selling it.
Legacy in Action: A Conversation with Rohan Marley and the Mission Behind The Whine Down
When I sat down with Rohan Marley ahead of The Whine Down—our cultural benefit experience supporting the Bob & Rita Marley Foundation’s hurricane relief efforts in Jamaica—our conversation moved quickly into the teachings that have shaped his life. Before we talked logistics, food, or philanthropy, he returned to something much older: a lesson from his […]
Freedom Fighter of the Month: The Cop Who Broke With the Drug War — and Is Now Suing the U.S. Government Over Gun Rights
A 34-year police veteran who once enforced the War on Drugs is now fighting the federal government to protect the constitutional rights of medical cannabis patients.
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Cannabis and mushroom medicine are helping senior dogs fight dementia—offering new hope for natural healing in our beloved pets.
[Watch] Rick Doblin: ‘We Taxed Ecstasy Dealers To Fund Our DEA Lawsuit’
An exclusive High Times interview with Rick Doblin.
When Shit Got Weird: The Cool Kids on Weed, Rap and Their New Album ‘Hi Top Fade’
Retro boom bap, stubborn friendship, and an album born from loss. Chuck Inglish and Sir Michael Rocks look back at first highs, grief, and why Hi Top Fade sounds like a new chapter.
Prehistoric High: 25,000-Year-Old Teeth May Hold the Oldest Evidence of Psychoactive Drug Use
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.
Mexico’s Supreme Court Says Cooking With Cannabis Is Allowed—With a Personal-Use Permit
Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that cooking with cannabis can be covered under a personal-use permit, expanding the scope of recreational self-consumption without legalizing commercial edibles.
High Times Cannabis Cup Montana 2026: The Complete Winners List
Wild Sky Farms won both hybrid and indica. Funk Farm placed in all three flower categories and finished with more medals than anyone. And three of the six edible and gummy medals went to products that lead with their extraction method. Every winner from the High Times Cannabis Cup Montana.
Broken, Built and Bruised: Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of 9/11
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Todd Harrison reflects on what he saw from 40 Fulton Street, the friend he lost at Cantor Fitzgerald and how trauma eventually led him to cannabis.
A Magazine From 1969 Made the Case the DEA Is Making Now. It Also Named the People Who Would Spend 57 Years Stalling.
The Marijuana Review, published out of a Buffalo dorm room in January 1969 with Allen Ginsberg listed among its advisers, argued that the science on cannabis was already sufficient and that the people demanding more research would never be satisfied. Fifty-seven years later, the DEA made the same argument in a federal proceeding, against the same objection.
Inside the Mushroom-and-Hemp Coffin Designed to Return Bodies to the Earth
Dutch company Loop Biotech’s Living Cocoon is a biodegradable coffin made from mycelium and recycled hemp fibers that can break down in roughly 45 days while helping return nutrients to the soil. The concept gained fresh attention after a 70-year-old woman named Carolyn became the first person in Australia to be buried in one. What […]
CBG Protected Memory in a Schizophrenia Model. The Reason It Worked Wasn’t the One Scientists Expected.
Repeated CBG treatment prevented a long-term recognition memory deficit in male rats given MK-801, a compound used to model the cognitive impairments seen in schizophrenia. CBG did not restore the BDNF protein levels MK-801 had lowered, but it raised TrkB messenger RNA in the medial prefrontal cortex, pointing to a mechanism the researchers had not expected.
Magic Garden Botanicals Meets Sound System Culture
At Submersion Festival, Magic Garden Botanicals’ Smoke Village connects a Tri-State cannabis brand to a music tradition long associated with the plant.
Trump Commutes Two Cannabis Sentences—But What About Rescheduling?
President Donald Trump commuted the federal marijuana sentences of Jerry Haymon IV and Kevin Harden as his administration continues a broader process that could move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. Their cases sharpen a longstanding question in cannabis reform: what happens to people punished under federal marijuana laws while the government is actively […]
New Zealand Joins Australia in Opening Restricted Access to MDMA for PTSD
New Zealand has authorized two psychiatrists to prescribe pharmaceutical-grade MDMA to selected adults with PTSD, creating a tightly controlled treatment pathway while the drug remains officially unapproved.