Broken, Built and Bruised: Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of 9/11
He watched it happen from a window on the 24th floor, then spent the next decade not knowing what it had done to him. Todd Harrison on the morning, the friend he never got that last drink with, and where the weed came in. It’s been twenty-five years since first responders showed us what true…
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A Magazine From 1969 Made the Case the DEA Is Making Now. It Also Named the People Who Would Spend 57 Years Stalling.
Five years before High Times existed, a fifty-cent magazine out of a Buffalo dorm room made the exact argument the DEA just made in federal court. It also named, in 1969, the people who would spend the next half century saying we need more research first. The government’s closing brief in the marijuana rescheduling hearing…
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Inside the Mushroom-and-Hemp Coffin Designed to Return Bodies to the Earth
Dutch company Loop Biotech’s Living Cocoon is a biodegradable coffin made from mycelium and recycled hemp fibers that can break down in roughly 45 days while helping return nutrients to the soil. The concept gained fresh attention after a 70-year-old woman named Carolyn became the first person in Australia to be buried in one. What…
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CBG Protected Memory in a Schizophrenia Model. The Reason It Worked Wasn’t the One Scientists Expected.
A preclinical study found that repeated CBG treatment prevented a long-term recognition memory impairment induced by MK-801 in male rats, an experimental model used to study cognitive deficits relevant to schizophrenia. The effect did not appear to involve restoring reduced BDNF protein levels, though changes in TrkB messenger RNA point to a possible mechanism that…
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Magic Garden Botanicals Meets Sound System Culture
Cannabis and sound system culture have shared a history for decades. At Submersion Festival this fall, Magic Garden Botanicals’ Smoke Village continues it. Submersion Festival returns to Paradise Lakes Campground in Hammonton, New Jersey, from October 1 through 3, bringing three days of bass music to the edge of the Pine Barrens. Hosted by the…
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Trump Commutes Two Cannabis Sentences—But What About Rescheduling?
President Donald Trump commuted the federal marijuana sentences of Jerry Haymon IV and Kevin Harden as his administration continues a broader process that could move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. Their cases sharpen a longstanding question in cannabis reform: what happens to people punished under federal marijuana laws while the government is actively…
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New Zealand Joins Australia in Opening Restricted Access to MDMA for PTSD
New Zealand has authorized two psychiatrists to prescribe pharmaceutical-grade MDMA to selected adults with PTSD who have not responded to conventional treatments, while keeping the substance classified as an unapproved medicine. The move creates a tightly controlled access pathway that falls short of broad legalization and places the country somewhere between Australia’s existing model and…
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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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