I Spent My Life Chasing Flavor. Eventually, It Led Me to Weed
Illness kept changing the rules of my life. Tea, whisky, and eventually cannabis became ways of finding something worth chasing anyway. It’s 7:38 a.m., and it’s time for my medication. I grab my pill strip off my desk and pop the lid open. Gotta check that it’s all there; otherwise I’m screwed. The pills for…
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If ‘Niche’ Is the New ‘Cool,’ Then Pressed Hash Is Ice Cold: A Golden State Hash Report
It’s a great time to be an old-school hash lover. Award-winning journalist David Downs, a contributor to the “Beyond Buds” book and organizer of the 3rd annual SF Hash Week, rounds up 2026’s top traditional hashes in the world’s biggest legal market, California. The small Solful retail store on Irving Street was packed and roaring…
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Good Times Is Done With Potency Theater
The New Jersey brand is betting that shoppers would rather understand a formula than stare at another giant THC number. Legal weed has a horsepower problem. Open a dispensary menu and the products often collapse into the same pitch: stronger, louder, faster, higher. The THC number gets the biggest type. Everything else gets pushed toward…
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90% of Americans Want Legal Weed. Lawmakers in Both Parties Keep Punishing Them for It.
From South Dakota to Michigan, red states are trying to overturn legalization votes and blue states are taxing the market to death. Nearly 90% of Americans want legal cannabis. It’s time consumers acted like the majority they are. This article originally appeared in High Times’ Spring/Summer 2026 print edition. Get yours here. Nearly 90% of…
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The Case That Just Beat Trump’s Press Ban Started With High Times’ Founder and a Pie
In 1970, Tom Forçade put a pie in a federal commissioner’s face. The Secret Service used it to deny him a White House press pass. The case he filed became the precedent a judge invoked this week to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico. On Wednesday night a federal judge ordered the White…
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Thailand Advances Medical-Only Cannabis Bill as Adult-Use Era Fades
Thailand is moving closer to putting its medical-only cannabis model into national law, with a new bill that would require licenses across the supply chain, restrict sales to medical and research purposes, and prohibit advertising and promotion. Thousands of existing dispensaries could continue operating until their current licenses expire, but many would then need to…
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The Best Flower I Got This Month Is Going Into the Freezer Without Being Smoked
The best flower that showed up at my place this month is going into the freezer without ever getting smoked. That is happening more often, and this month’s haul explains why. Most Wanted did an outstanding job growing this Guava Tart clone from Purple City Genetics. It is covered in trichomes, the smell is pungent…
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The Generational Flip: Are Teens Ditching Weed While Seniors Are Using More? What the Latest US Data Shows
Cannabis use among U.S. teens has declined substantially even as adult-use legalization has expanded, challenging predictions that regulated markets would necessarily drive higher consumption among young people. Meanwhile, national data show cannabis use rising among adults 65 and older, while a recent New York City study highlights both the reasons seniors are using it and…
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This Company Wants to Sell the ‘World’s First’ CBD Pain Tablet. Its Own Trial Didn’t Beat a Placebo.
An Australian company says its THC-free tablet could become the world’s first registered prescription CBD painkiller. Its chief executive also says the trial didn’t outperform a placebo. Both things ran on the same day, in different outlets. An Australian company has asked regulators to register what it calls the world’s first prescription CBD tablet for…
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High Life, Low Life: Steven Froelich’s Cocaine-Fueled Journey Through Guatemala
There are two Steven Froelichs in Guatemala: High Life, Low Life. One of them lived it: loaded, reckless, and thrilled about it. The other one wrote it down, stone-cold sober, years later and an ocean away in London. The surprising part is how little the second Froelich wants to correct the first. For about a…
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