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. Now I’m taking what I’ve learned to India. In 1961, 13 years after its independence, India was forced by the U.S. to sign the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which included cannabis, or in India, ganja. However, as far as cannabis was…
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‘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…
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Dead Cats, Drag Clowns, and the Weirdest Awards in Indie Film
Dominatrix Mara’s Cocoon, winner of the festival’s WTF Award, finds sensuality and psychological tension in water, nylon stockings, thin latex, flowers, and two women engaged in what the filmmaker describes as a dynamic metamorphosis. Mara wanted the film to challenge the usual media treatment of kink and BDSM. Rather than framing intensity through aggression or…
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Cannabis Banking Is Still Broken. This Credit Union Built Around It.
In April 2026, the federal government moved medical cannabis to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act, the most significant change to marijuana’s federal status in more than 50 years. Over the summer, a Drug Enforcement Administration hearing took up the larger question of whether adult-use cannabis should follow, wrapping in mid-July with a recommendation…
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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 counts the whole edible toward its weight. An ounce of marijuana is still a misdemeanor. And the delta-9 gummies still on the shelf survive on a technicality that federal law is about to erase.…
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New Jersey Cannabis Comes Together at Shore House Canna’s Fall Fest
The free West Cape May gathering returns to Rea’s Farm on September 26 with New Jersey cannabis brands, longtime consumers, first-timers, and a live High Times broadcast. In West Cape May, NJ, on a stretch of farmland that’s been worked by the same family for over 100 years, something wonderful happens every fall: Shore House…
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Beware of the Chads
Berner has a word for the guys who show up with a term sheet and no feel for the plant. He calls them the Chads — like many others in the cannabis community do. A new wave of them is coming, and the last wave ate a generation of founders. On the morning of June…
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Hawaii Banned Smokable Hemp in 2020. Stores Sold It Openly for Five Years. Then the Crackdown Began.
The state says flower, pre-rolls and vapes were already prohibited. Hemp retailers say years of limited enforcement allowed a market to develop that is now being removed. Lance Alyas says other hemp retailers in Hawaii have contacted him privately since he sued the state over its hemp rules, but few are willing to discuss the…
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Ren and Chris Webby Got High in the Woods and Made the Best Album I’ve Heard All Year
They smoke an absurd amount of weed, rap about everything from ketamine to pharmaceutical trials, and bounce from reggae to soul to drum and bass without warning. Somehow, “Asylum” is also warm, funny and the best album I’ve heard all year. I’ve listened to Asylum sober. I’ve listened to it couch-locked. I’ve listened to it…
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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…
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