Krayzie Bone Nearly Died, Put the Weed Down, and Found a New Purpose. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Are Back.

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Three years after a ruptured artery in his lung nearly killed him, Krayzie Bone is back with a renewed sense of purpose, a new Bone Thugs-n-Harmony album in the works, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star on the way, and, notably, no weed in his life anymore. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony are one of the only rap…

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Scary Movie’s Officer Doofy Became a Stoner Icon. Nobody Is More Surprised Than the Guy Who Played Him.

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Dave Sheridan played Officer Doofy in Scary Movie, the bumbling deputy ultimately revealed to be the man behind the Ghostface-style mask. The “Wazzup” face became a cannabis icon somewhere along the way, and 25 years later, now on a PAX vape, Sheridan is still trying to work out how the culture got there first. Dave…

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Turns Out It’s Not ‘Just the Tip’: Inside the Art of the Joint Crutch

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A closer look at the past, present, and future of that tiny thing at the end of the joint you’re either totally ignoring or celebrating as high art. There was a time when the business end of your joint — the part that touched your lips — consisted of nothing more than rolling paper material…

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Garcia Hand Picked’s California Homecoming Put the Growers in the Room

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By High Times Staff, with reporting and photography by Brett Churchill The Berkeley stop of Garcia Hand Picked’s California tour brought sungrown flower, legacy farmers, Jerry Garcia photography, and live Dead songs under one roof. The jars came first. At the Chapel of the Flowers in Berkeley, guests approached a tasting table, lifted the lids,…

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Cannabis Price Wars Are Training Shoppers to Stop Caring

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The legal weed business taught customers to chase the next deal, and independent dispensaries are paying the price. Twenty percent off flower. Buy two vapes, get the third for a penny. Thirty percent off the entire store until noon. Double loyalty points on Wednesday, unless Thursday’s sale turns out to be better.  Cannabis retail has…

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Weed Doesn’t Make You Creative. It Just Gets You Out of the Way.

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Cannabis doesn’t give you talent you don’t already have. A psychiatrist specializing in cannabis and entheogens breaks down what THC actually does to the creative brain, and why the myth of the green muse is more complicated than it looks. The myth of the green muse has coasted through history, dodging potholes between the weed…

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The Weed Moral Panic Afroman Mocked in 2001 Is Back. His Song Aged Into a Weapon.

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Rolling Stone just told the story of how Afroman turned a botched police raid into a viral hit and a First Amendment win. Here is the piece that did not fit in that story: why the song that made him famous a quarter century ago lands harder now than it did then. Rolling Stone just…

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UN Spotted 755 New Psychoactive Drugs, 331 Million Users and Why Governments Can’t Keep Up

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Global drug markets are expanding, diversifying, and adapting through new routes, technologies, substances, and consumer patterns, while public policy often struggles to keep pace. The latest UN report shows that drugs are no longer only a matter of substances, but also of markets, public health, inequality, violence, gender, youth, regulation, and state capacity. The new…

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Watch: Our World Cup Cannabis Docuseries Hits Philly With a Weed Cheesesteak and 2 Survivor Winners

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Episode two of our World Cup cannabis series heads down the shore and into Philadelphia. The cheesesteak comes infused. The dispensary has a roll-up window. And the edible catches up with Ethan Zohn right on camera. A dispensary with a roll-up window. A cheesesteak with THC in everything but the bread. A Survivor winner slowly…

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I Was a Teenage Vegetarian Until the Munchies Hit

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“You smoke Marlboro Reds. You can do this too,” my friend Justin wheezed, passing me his glass pipe. I groped around in the dark under the bleachers until I found the lighter, then took a deep breath. At 17, I had finally decided I was ready to get high for the first time. My friends…

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