Missouri’s Cannabis Market Grew Up Fast
The industry’s attention still gravitates toward the legacy states. But through operators like SWADE Cannabis and its parent, BeLeaf Medical Co., Missouri has become one of the most dynamic cannabis stories in the country. Ask most cannabis insiders which states matter, and you’ll hear the usual suspects: California. Colorado. Maybe Michigan or New York. Missouri…
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Metro Boomin Is Headlining Puffcon. The Hundred Glass Artists Under Him Are the Real Story.
Metro Boomin and Action Bronson are headlining Puffcon in October, and that alone is worth the ticket. But look further down the bill. More than a hundred glass artists will be there, and almost nobody in the art world will say their names out loud. Puffco announced its lineup for Puffcon Block Party 2026 in…
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The Return of Ali G: Crashed Wimbledon as ‘Official Ganja Dealer’, Almost Got Arrested
Sacha Baron Cohen has reportedly been filming a new Ali G movie in secret. Could that explain why this character is suddenly reappearing everywhere, dressed like a pothead and trying to sell bags of weed at Wimbledon? Probably. Reports surfaced in early July claiming that production has already wrapped on a new, still-untitled Ali G…
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‘It Feels Like 2016 Again’: A Week in Germany Reminded the Weed Industry (and Berner) How to Have Fun
Mary Jane Berlin brought tens of thousands of people into one building and reminded them why they fell for this plant. Then came the other side of Germany’s cannabis story, a pharmaceutical grow so strict it took half an hour of biosecurity just to reach the plants, and a castle where the industry felt like…
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You’ve Got Mail: Are Berlin Drug Dealers Really Leaving Free Samples in Mailboxes?
Berlin police are warning residents after receiving reports that suspected drug samples were being left in residential mailboxes, allegedly in an effort to attract new customers. While only a limited number of cases have been confirmed so far, the incidents highlight how the illegal drug market continues to adopt increasingly sophisticated marketing tactics. What Berlin…
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Cannabis Culture Needs Collaboration, Not Fragmentation
Cannabis culture survived through decentralized human connection. Its future depends on whether the people building it can start working together on purpose. There is a moment before every cannabis event that belongs only to the people building it. Before the doors open, before the booths are finished, before the crowd arrives and turns an empty…
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We Legalized Weed… So Why Does It Still Feel Broken?
This article originally appeared in High Times’ Spring/Summer 2026 print edition. Get yours here. Activists, investors, lawyers, growers and a plant scientist on what American cannabis legalization built, what it broke and where it goes from here. By the Numbers American cannabis legalization in eight stats. $30B+ US cannabis industry size 70% Americans who support…
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Five Years and $100,000 Later, New York Finally Let Me Sell Weed
After five years, two applications, six figures in expenses, and a maze of shifting rules, one New York cannabis entrepreneur finally secured a retail license—and learned how legalization can still punish the people it was supposed to help. The process to get to this point has been, in a word, farcical. From shifting goalposts to…
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Dabbling in Dabs: The History of 710
This article was originally published in 2023. From the hash and honey oil of the hippie era to the array of consistencies today, concentrates have evolved over time and they’ve come a long way. The 420 holiday, celebrating all things cannabis, gave way to another holiday: 710. The Brotherhood of Eternal Love first smuggled in…
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Watch: Berner Saved This ‘Throwaway’ Strain. Now It’s a High Times Strain of the Month.
Berner pulled a strain back from the scrap pile, then stood on the Mary Jane Berlin floor with 80,000 people and felt something the weed business had misplaced somewhere along the way. One of the loudest strains Berner is putting his name on this year almost didn’t make the cut. It got written off in…
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