‘The First 30 Minutes Are Glorious’: Better Than Ezra, Say She She and Sébastien Tellier on Weed and the Creative Sweet Spot
Better Than Ezra, Say She She and Sébastien Tellier share their perspectives on how weed can work wonders when crafting a hit song. Ever been so stoned you thought you were dying? If you’re like most casual cannabis consumers, chances are you’ve experienced at least one smoke-filled session of panic paranoia. That’s because consumption is…
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Cheaper Flower, More Choice, No Surge in Use: The Netherlands’ Cannabis Pilot Delivers Its First Results
For decades, the Netherlands has lived with a long-standing contradiction known as the “backdoor problem”: coffeeshops could sell cannabis under certain conditions as part of the country’s tolerance policy, while the commercial cultivation supplying those shops remained outside the regulated framework. Since April 2025, the country has been trying to resolve that contradiction through a…
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Cannabis Costs $15 in One State and $52 in Another. Bourbon Doesn’t.
Four states that have never traded a gram with each other all charge about $18. Everywhere else, the difference is a decision somebody made, and patients are paying for it. By Shawn Collins via Policy, Decoded. An eighth of cannabis costs $15 in Washington and $52 in Kentucky, where every buyer is a patient. A…
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Your Doctor Won’t Talk About Medical Cannabis? Here Are Five Questions That Change That.
By Dr. Joseph Rosado, MD, MBA, DC | Rosado Advisory Medical cannabis has evidence supporting certain uses, but its potential benefits and risks vary depending on the condition, product, dose, medications and individual patient. If your doctor avoids the subject, asking specific questions about evidence, interactions, risks and their own cannabis training can help turn…
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Cannabis Cured Me Twice, and I’ll Show You My Medical Records
Seven years ago, Ed Rosenthal’s PSA numbers spiked and a biopsy confirmed prostate cancer. He declined the interventions his doctor laid out, stayed under monitoring, and took CBD. A month ago, another biopsy found nothing. When Colorado voters legalized cannabis in 2014, I was attending a big party in Denver. I remarked that cannabis was…
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Tom Forçade Wanted Legitimacy: Inside the Secretive, Paranoid Mind That Created High Times
In 1975, a young freelancer talked his way into a basement in the West Village. The man inside made three phone calls before letting him ask a single question. Then he talked for five hours. This article originally appeared in High Times’ Spring/Summer 2026 print edition. Get yours here. I was on assignment for [MORE], a journalism…
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TraxNYC Cast a Real Cannabis Nug in Solid Gold. The Flower Vanished. The Shape Didn’t.
A Diamond District jeweler took one of weed culture’s most temporary objects and tried to make it permanent. The finished piece looks like a luxury object. Getting there was not. Reported with Cesar Soriano Ahead of 4/20 last year, a bag of cannabis showed up at a Diamond District jewelry shop, and according to the…
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Venezuela, Drugs and Oil: How Washington’s Policy Has Changed
Washington has removed Venezuela from the group of countries deemed to have “failed demonstrably” in their anti-drug obligations while maintaining it on the broader list of major drug-transit and producing countries, citing growing cooperation with Delcy Rodríguez’s interim government. At the same time, U.S. oil companies and policymakers are rapidly deepening their involvement in Venezuela’s…
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The Piece That Outlasts the Session
Flower gets smoked and disappears, but the right piece stays behind, becoming part of the room, the ritual, and eventually, the memories. There is something unusual about the object at the center of a smoking ritual. The thing purchased for consumption is temporary by design. Flower gets ground, packed, lit, pulled through water, and eventually…
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Ecuador’s Hemp Market Is Growing Fast—and It’s Not Just About Cultivation
Ecuador’s hemp sector is projected to approach or surpass $20 million in 2026 as companies move beyond raw biomass into chocolates, cosmetics, supplements, veterinary products and other finished goods. With more than 700 companies operating across the supply chain, the industry is now looking to capture more value domestically while expanding finished-product exports into international…
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