The Holy Trinity: Ganja, Mushrooms, and a Steam Chalice in Jamaica

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Jamaica has always had ganja. Now it has the mushrooms too — and a growing number of retreats are finally putting them together. I’m taking a massive bong rip in the middle of a group sesh when a cop suddenly shows up unannounced right behind me. Alarm bells go off – the last time something…

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Watch: The Texas Lt. Governor Called Hemp Sellers ‘Terrorists.’ Our New Documentary Goes Inside The Fight.

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Episode 2 of High Times’ Texas Cannabis Chronicles goes inside the machinery of the crackdown, where the Lieutenant Governor called hemp operators “terrorists” and a multibillion-dollar industry waits to find out if its legal business becomes a crime. If Episode 1 of Texas Cannabis Chronicles showed the explosion, Episode 2 takes you inside the machine.…

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Cannabis Doesn’t Have a Marketing Problem: The Pitch Has Been Amiss From The Start

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Opinion / Guest Column The following is an opinion piece by Eric Offenberger, CEO of multistate cannabis operator Vext Science. The views are the author’s own and do not reflect High Times’ reporting. It originally appeared in Cannabis Confidential, Todd Harrison’s Substack, where Offenberger is a guest contributor, and is republished with permission. An MSO…

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Virginia’s Governor Says Legal Weed Was Moving Too Fast. The States That Moved Fast Are Doing Fine.

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Gov. Abigail Spanberger explained her cannabis veto: she didn’t want to rush like other states. The problem is that the states that rushed are doing fine, and her veto just froze a $50 million expansion and hundreds of jobs. A day after vetoing the bill that would have launched Virginia’s adult-use cannabis market, Gov. Abigail…

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ScHoolboy Q Quits Weed After Smoking 20 Times a Day. Here’s Why.

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ScHoolboy Q says he’s done smoking weed and, according to him, the decision came after years of heavy use, a sense that the habit had stopped doing anything for him, and a desire to set an example for his children. Still, he recognized its health benefits —distinguishing it from habits like alcohol— and how it…

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Are Joint Filters Making You Inhale 86% More Tar? Science Says You’re Being Scammed 3 Different Ways By An Old Big Tobacco Trick.

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Charcoal joint filters filter out terpenes, which are both tasty and beneficial. They barely reduce the tar. Here’s what nobody’s telling you: take the terpenes out, you get less high. So you smoke more to chase what you lost, and you end up with more tar, not less. Big Tobacco got caught running this same…

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The Feds Rescheduled Weed. Truckers Still Can’t Touch It, Medical Card Or Not.

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Schedule III didn’t change a thing for truckers. A new USDOT memo confirms that safety-sensitive transportation workers still can’t use marijuana, and a state medical card won’t save your drug test. If you drive a truck, fly a plane, or operate a bus for a living, the federal rescheduling of marijuana changed nothing for you.…

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Scary Movie Went All In On Marketing To Stoners. A Vape, A Bong Popcorn Bucket, The Whole Thing.

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The Wayans brothers’ new Scary Movie is leaning all the way into weed culture. There’s an official PAX vaporizer collab, a stoner parody series, a bong in the trailer, and a popcorn bucket shaped like a water pipe that the studio posted but nobody can confirm is actually for sale. The Wayans are back, and…

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Thailand’s Weed Boom Is Breaking—Here’s Who Survives

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Walk down Khao San Road, one of Bangkok’s main tourist hubs, and you’ll find dispensaries lining the street within just a few hundred meters. Their density exceeds that of convenience stores. And yet, only a handful are actually busy. Even on the same street, the gap between winners and losers is obvious. In 2025 alone,…

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Inside Scarlet Reserve Room and Jersey’s Legacy Weed Culture

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As legal cannabis drifts toward corporate sameness, Scarlet Reserve Room is holding onto something harder to manufacture: culture, authenticity, and the people who survived prohibition long before investors showed up.  Legal weed has gotten very good at looking expensive. Walk into enough dispensaries today and they start blurring together: white walls, glowing menus, polished branding,…

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