New Jersey Is Kicking THC Drinks Out of Liquor Stores. High Tide Has a Plan.
New Jersey’s THC beverage market is heading into the most consequential stretch of its short life. A federal change to the definition of hemp takes effect in November 2026, and the state has set November 13 as the last day licensed liquor stores can sell hemp-derived THC drinks. After that date, any beverage carrying a…
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One of the ‘Mormon Wives’ Chooses Cannabis: Here’s What the Church Actually Says
Mormon Wives star Mikayla Matthews says medical cannabis was “literally life-changing” for her nerve pain and sleep, bringing weed into a show already built around the tensions between modern Utah life and Mormon expectations. But the Church’s position is more nuanced than a simple prohibition. Mikayla Matthews, one of the stars of Hulu’s The Secret…
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Chain vs. Indy: Which Dispensaries Do People Prefer?
Chains reorder every two weeks and earn twice the discounts. Independents stock the same breadth of product and win on everything that isn’t a spreadsheet. Dispensaries generally fall into one of two camps: part of a multi-state chain, or an independent operator. Those independents might own several stores within one state (a single-state operator), or…
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Twenty Brazilian Cannabis Patient Associations Are Meeting Inside a Free Arts Fair in Fortaleza
Twenty patient associations from across northeastern Brazil are meeting in Fortaleza this month, inside a free three-day arts fair. The agenda item that matters: how to keep supplying patients when every step of the chain, from seed to prescription, sits on unstable ground. Brazil’s medical cannabis system doesn’t look much like anything in the United…
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In 1968 I Faced 70 Years for Giving Away Joints. Fifty-Five Years Later, I Paid $32.16 at the Counter.
In 1968, a few joints I gave away left me facing the possibility of decades in prison. More than half a century later, I walked into a legal dispensary and paid for cannabis at the counter. My attorney peered at me from behind his imposing oak desk that night in January 1968 and told me…
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The Cold Stops the Clock: How Fresh Frozen Cannabis Becomes Live Rosin
For one hash maker the clock starts at harvest, and the flower is in the freezer within thirty minutes. A breeder, two operators and an extractor on the genetics, the equipment and the margin for error behind live rosin. In the realm of fantasy and longing, we often evoke summers of sun-dried buds and the…
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Prehistoric High: 25,000-Year-Old Teeth May Hold the Oldest Evidence of Psychoactive Drug Use
Researchers analyzing two ancient skeletons from Indonesia found dramatic dental wear and traces of arecoline, suggesting people may have sucked psychoactive areca nuts as far back as 25,000 years ago. The finding could represent the earliest known evidence of psychoactive plant use, while also shedding light on a practice that remains widespread today despite serious…
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Mexico’s Supreme Court Says Cooking With Cannabis Is Allowed—With a Personal-Use Permit
Mexico’s Supreme Court has pushed the boundaries of legal adult-use cannabis a little further. This time, the issue was not cultivation, possession or transport. It was cooking. The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, or SCJN, ruled that authorizations for recreational cannabis self-consumption may also cover the use of cannabis or THC in prepared…
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High Times Cannabis Cup Montana 2026: The Complete Winners List
Twenty-three brands took home 33 medals across 11 categories in Billings. Two farms split the flower board, one farm placed in every flower category, and solventless turned up in places it didn’t use to. The High Times Cannabis Cup Montana ran in Billings on Saturday, September 5, and the official results are in. They say…
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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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