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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‘The First 30 Minutes Are Glorious’: Better Than Ezra, Say She She and Sébastien Tellier on Weed and the Creative Sweet Spot
Better Than Ezra, Say She She and Sébastien Tellier share their perspectives on how weed can work wonders when crafting a hit song. Ever been so stoned you thought you were dying? If you’re like most casual cannabis consumers, chances are you’ve experienced at least one smoke-filled session of panic paranoia. That’s because consumption is…
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Cheaper Flower, More Choice, No Surge in Use: The Netherlands’ Cannabis Pilot Delivers Its First Results
For decades, the Netherlands has lived with a long-standing contradiction known as the “backdoor problem”: coffeeshops could sell cannabis under certain conditions as part of the country’s tolerance policy, while the commercial cultivation supplying those shops remained outside the regulated framework. Since April 2025, the country has been trying to resolve that contradiction through a…
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Cannabis Costs $15 in One State and $52 in Another. Bourbon Doesn’t.
Four states that have never traded a gram with each other all charge about $18. Everywhere else, the difference is a decision somebody made, and patients are paying for it. By Shawn Collins via Policy, Decoded. An eighth of cannabis costs $15 in Washington and $52 in Kentucky, where every buyer is a patient. A…
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Your Doctor Won’t Talk About Medical Cannabis? Here Are Five Questions That Change That.
By Dr. Joseph Rosado, MD, MBA, DC | Rosado Advisory Medical cannabis has evidence supporting certain uses, but its potential benefits and risks vary depending on the condition, product, dose, medications and individual patient. If your doctor avoids the subject, asking specific questions about evidence, interactions, risks and their own cannabis training can help turn…
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Cannabis Cured Me Twice, and I’ll Show You My Medical Records
Seven years ago, Ed Rosenthal’s PSA numbers spiked and a biopsy confirmed prostate cancer. He declined the interventions his doctor laid out, stayed under monitoring, and took CBD. A month ago, another biopsy found nothing. When Colorado voters legalized cannabis in 2014, I was attending a big party in Denver. I remarked that cannabis was…
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Tom Forçade Wanted Legitimacy: Inside the Secretive, Paranoid Mind That Created High Times
In 1975, a young freelancer talked his way into a basement in the West Village. The man inside made three phone calls before letting him ask a single question. Then he talked for five hours. This article originally appeared in High Times’ Spring/Summer 2026 print edition. Get yours here. I was on assignment for [MORE], a journalism…
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TraxNYC Cast a Real Cannabis Nug in Solid Gold. The Flower Vanished. The Shape Didn’t.
A Diamond District jeweler took one of weed culture’s most temporary objects and tried to make it permanent. The finished piece looks like a luxury object. Getting there was not. Reported with Cesar Soriano Ahead of 4/20 last year, a bag of cannabis showed up at a Diamond District jewelry shop, and according to the…
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