Five Years In: What New York Cannabis Got Wrong—and What’s Finally Going Right
By Sasha Nutgent, VP of Cannabis Retail at Housing Works Cannabis Co Five years after New York created the Office of Cannabis Management (OCM), the state’s legal cannabis industry is still finding its footing. When New York created the OCM, it felt like the state had a chance to rewrite the cannabis playbook and address…
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San Francisco’s Weed Week Is Back: SF Space Walk Returns This April
Running April 14 through April 20, SF Space Walk 2026 brings growers, lounges, new flower releases and citywide cannabis culture back into focus, with a month of related programming beginning April 3. San Francisco is getting its weed week back. SF Space Walk, the city’s annual 4/20-season cannabis festival curated by journalist and author David…
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Even the DEA Says Teen Weed Use Is Down. WSJ Still Ties Teen Access to Legalization. Why Ignore the Data?
The Wall Street Journal keeps pairing real concerns about teen cannabis with a familiar implication: legalization made the problem worse. But national trend data, recent policy research (and even the DEA’s own youth-facing materials) still don’t show that legal adult markets drove a youth-use surge. The Wall Street Journal has now run back-to-back pieces nudging…
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Less MDMA, More Cocaine and Ketamine: Wastewater Data Reveals Shifts in Drug Use in Europe
The world’s waters are polluted: no news there. We’ve been living with this issue for decades, which shows little sign of abating… But if we can’t fight it, we can at least study it. Indeed, analyzing our river systems can offer valuable insights into population health. That’s the aim of the new study by the…
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The Rolling Paper King You’ve Never Heard Of Beat Zig-Zag to the Pop-Up Booklet
Long before modern brands existed, a Sephardic merchant built a rolling-paper empire that stretched across Europe. His name faded, but his influence shaped how generations smoked, played, and lived. Before monopolies and mass marketing shaped how Europe smoked, there was Saul David Modiano: a Sephardic Jewish industrialist who turned rolling papers and playing cards into…
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How Little Beach Harvest Is Building Tribal Cannabis Power on Long Island
Out in Southampton, where Range Rovers and summer rentals usually dominate the conversation, there’s a different kind of destination taking shape. Little Beach Harvest isn’t just another New York dispensary trying to survive a messy recreational rollout. It’s a tribally owned operation on Shinnecock territory, built with a clear purpose: create economic independence, build community,…
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Steve DeAngelo Talks Smuggling Weed And Why Legalization Still Isn’t Working In Jerry Chu’s New Podcast Video
The first episode of Jerry Chu’s new long-form video podcast, produced with En Volá and distributed through High Times’ YouTube channel, opens with Steve DeAngelo on legacy cannabis, corporate drift, hemp wars and the legalization fight he says the industry still hasn’t finished. A new cannabis interview series just landed, and its first move was…
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AEW’s Marina Shafir Hits Hard, Smokes Weed, and Would Rather Talk About Family
The AEW star gets candid about loss, love, life on the road, and the role cannabis has played in helping her stay grounded through it all. There’s nothing subtle about Marina Shafir. I learned this last week after sitting down with the former mixed martial artist turned wrestling icon, who cheerfully sparked one up while…
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Marijuana Reform Isn’t This White House’s Drug Policy Priority
Sara Carter, the former investigative journalist and Fox News contributor now serving as White House drug czar, has spent her early months emphasizing fentanyl, trafficking and addiction, not marijuana reform. Cannabis may still move through federal channels, but it is clearly not the part of drug policy this White House wants to lead with. If…
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Cannabis Can Cost You Your Visa: Immigration Risks for Non-Citizens in the United States
For millions of people living in the United States, buying cannabis can be as simple as walking into a licensed store. In many states, marijuana is legal for recreational or medical use and is sold openly through regulated businesses. Yet for non-U.S. citizens residing in the country, the consequences of cannabis use can be severe.…
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