UN Spotted 755 New Psychoactive Drugs, 331 Million Users and Why Governments Can’t Keep Up
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
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
“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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The New American Dispensary Is Becoming More Than a Store
Today’s leading dispensaries are moving beyond the sales counter to become community spaces, educational hubs, and cultural destinations. Missouri’s SWADE Cannabis offers a working example. For most of the legal era, the dispensary has been built around a single moment: the sale. A customer walked in knowing roughly what they wanted, talked to a budtender,…
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Cannabis Is a Team Sport: Why Summer Is Better With Friends
Fernway’s Squad Goals campaign is built on a simple premise: the good life is better shared. From World Cup watch parties to backyard cookouts, the best summer moments are the ones we spend together. Fernway starts from a simple belief: cannabis makes the good life even better. However you define the good life, the brand…
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The DEA Blocked the Cameras at This Cannabis Hearing. Here’s What They Didn’t Want You to See.
The DEA invited only opponents to its rescheduling hearing, turned reform supporters away and refused to livestream it. Then the government’s own witnesses stood up and made the case that cannabis has real medical value and is safer than substances sold at every gas station. Here is what has been happening inside a room the…
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Muck Sticky Has Worn Pajamas For 24 Years. He Says Weed And Comfort Are The Last Real Freedom.
Muck Sticky, the Memphis rapper who has lived in pajamas for 24 years, opens up about weed, creativity and radical self-acceptance. As he prepares to launch his own cannabis brand, the independent artist reflects on comfort and resisting a culture obsessed with productivity. In a world seemingly governed by algorithmic cynicism, the mind-numbing laconicism of…
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Never Mind Manchesterism, Britain’s Next PM Should Consider Marijuanaism
With Britain weeks away from a new Prime Minister, former UK parliamentary adviser James Matthewson argues that the incoming leader, widely expected to be Labour’s Andy Burnham, has a rare chance to be bold: end the war on weed and pour the proceeds into teen mental health. The grass isn’t always greener on the other…
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The Hottest Cannabis Strains in America Right Now, Picked by Our Experts
A running roundup of the hottest flower in legal America, pulled from recent High Times Strains of the Month and Terp Sherpa columns. Each pick is credited to the writer who made it and the month it ran. Listed alphabetically, not ranked. You don’t have to know a guy anymore. Between David Downs’ new Terp…
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Weed Doesn’t Make You Creative. It Just Gets Out of the Way
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…
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