The Cannabis ‘Shit List’: Where Vendors Are Naming California’s Lowest-Rated Operators
Whitney Economics says U.S. cannabis operators carried more than $3.8 billion in delinquent receivables at the end of 2023, projected to top $4.2 billion in 2024. California’s legislature has tried twice to mandate timely vendor payments. Both bills died. A public credit-scoring platform is now filling the gap. The cannabis industry has a payment problem.…
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Mother’s Day Gifts From Canna-Mamas, For Canna-Mamas
Mother’s Day is coming. If the mama in your life is a cannabis consumer, she deserves something that actually reflects who she is. Here are three woman-owned brands worth celebrating this year. When it comes to cannabis-friendly Mother’s Day gifts, we wanted to spotlight women who are actually building something in the space. These three…
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Massachusetts Could Become The First State To Repeal Legal Weed. The Community Is Fighting Back.
A November ballot question backed by Smart Approaches to Marijuana would shut down the state’s $1.6 billion adult-use market, end home grow and put an estimated 27,000 jobs at risk. Massachusetts would be the first state in the country to undo a regulated cannabis program through a voter referendum. Massachusetts could become the first state…
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Big Pharma Gave Up On Superbugs. This Pharmacist Asked The Cannabis Plant Instead.
Dr. Dana Lambert left hospital pharmacy in 2013 to study cannabinoid pharmacology, learned plant medicine from indigenous elders, and bet her career on the whole plant. A new Oxford-published study shows two cannabinoids most dispensary customers have never asked for, CBC and CBG, can make silver work 64 times harder against MRSA, E. coli and…
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The Drug That Almost Destroyed Me Was Legal. The One That Helped Me Walk Away Was Not.
In Indiana, the drugs that nearly destroyed my life were perfectly legal. Doctors administered them through IV lines while I lay in hospital beds: morphine, fentanyl, Dilaudid. I wasn’t chasing a high. I was a patient, and I trusted the system. Between 2014 and 2019, my life became a revolving door of hospital admissions. I…
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Jadakiss Smoked With Biggie, Dodged Cops For Sour Diesel and Lived To See Legal Weed In Harlem
The LOX legend and Dynasty Commodities co-founder Rich Jospitre talk to High Times about Biggie sessions, Sour, Haze, Harlem ownership and the long road from dimes and dubs to marble walls. There was liquid hash. Mason jars. Cognac. A room full of people getting impossibly high. Notorious B.I.G. was there. Jason Phillips, better known as…
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World’s Oldest Cannabis Plant May Have Been Found in a Berlin Museum — and It’s 56 Million Years Old
A fossilized leaf imprint found near Eisleben, Germany may be 56 million years old, doubling the previously accepted timeline for the Cannabis genus and raising new questions about where the plant actually came from. Researchers say further investigation is underway. The implications are enormous either way. It had been sitting in a museum drawer for…
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Pax Cannabica: How the Plant Became a Geopolitical Tool in a World at War
Cannabis is quietly emerging as a geopolitical tool in 2026, reshaping global trade, diplomacy and soft power amid energy crises and shifting alliances. From U.S. policy shifts to exports in Latin America and reconstruction efforts in Ukraine, the plant is increasingly positioned as a strategic asset in a changing world order. Rarely, perhaps not since…
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THC Drinks Hit Governors Ball With ayrloom—And New York Culture Won’t Look The Same
New York has always been a proving ground for culture. Music, fashion, street energy—it all collides here first, then ripples outward. Cannabis spent decades orbiting that world just outside the spotlight. This June, that changes. At Governors Ball in Queens, THC beverages are stepping inside the gates. No workaround, no side-eye, no hiding in the…
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Buddhist Monks Caught Smuggling $3.6M in Weed Through Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan authorities arrested 22 individuals after uncovering a sophisticated cannabis trafficking operation involving Buddhist monks carrying over 220 pounds of weed hidden under their robes. The case raises questions about recruitment tactics, deception, and the exploitation of religious trust in organized drug networks. Buddhist monks with pounds and pounds of weed, carefully distributed under…
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