If You Can Keep a Cannabis Mother Plant Alive, You Can Bake Sourdough

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Cannabis grower and edibles pioneer Maya Elisabeth makes the case that your sourdough starter is basically a mother plant. You feed her, she feeds you, and she carries your culture across generations. A warm love letter to two of life’s simplest pleasures, and why the things that bring the most joy always seem to get…

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Autoflowers Aren’t Weak Anymore: Inside Hypno Seeds’ High-THC Autos

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For years, growers filed autoflowers under “easy but weak.” Hypno Seeds is one of the breeders rewriting that rule, applying the same rigorous selection to its autos as its photoperiod line, and posting potency numbers to prove it. Ask a grower about autoflowers a decade ago, and the verdict rarely changed: easy to grow, not…

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The Frank Gallagher Thesis Shaped Welfare For Decades. The Data Just Demolished It.

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For decades, governments assumed poor people couldn’t be trusted with unconditional cash. A wave of new evidence says they were wrong. There is a documented phenomenon in the research literature: drug-related hospitalizations spike measurably in the first days of the month, when government disability and welfare checks land. Among SSI recipients with preexisting addictions, within-hospital…

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Pickle Vapes, Beach Soccer, and the Road to Philly

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During the Philadelphia leg of Kicking Back, Ethan Zohn follows soccer and cannabis from Massachusetts to the Jersey Shore and into the city, finding the people who turn a road trip into a squad. Ethan Zohn loves pickles enough that he had a pickle bar at his wedding. So when he walks into Shore House…

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Krayzie Bone Nearly Died, Put the Weed Down, and Found a New Purpose. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Are Back.

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Three years after a ruptured artery in his lung nearly killed him, Krayzie Bone is back with a renewed sense of purpose, a new Bone Thugs-n-Harmony album in the works, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star on the way, and, notably, no weed in his life anymore. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony are one of the only rap…

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Scary Movie’s Officer Doofy Became a Stoner Icon. Nobody Is More Surprised Than the Guy Who Played Him.

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Dave Sheridan played Officer Doofy in Scary Movie, the bumbling deputy ultimately revealed to be the man behind the Ghostface-style mask. The “Wazzup” face became a cannabis icon somewhere along the way, and 25 years later, now on a PAX vape, Sheridan is still trying to work out how the culture got there first. Dave…

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Turns Out It’s Not ‘Just the Tip’: Inside the Art of the Joint Crutch

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A closer look at the past, present, and future of that tiny thing at the end of the joint you’re either totally ignoring or celebrating as high art. There was a time when the business end of your joint — the part that touched your lips — consisted of nothing more than rolling paper material…

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Garcia Hand Picked’s California Homecoming Put the Growers in the Room

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By High Times Staff, with reporting and photography by Brett Churchill The Berkeley stop of Garcia Hand Picked’s California tour brought sungrown flower, legacy farmers, Jerry Garcia photography, and live Dead songs under one roof. The jars came first. At the Chapel of the Flowers in Berkeley, guests approached a tasting table, lifted the lids,…

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Cannabis Price Wars Are Training Shoppers to Stop Caring

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The legal weed business taught customers to chase the next deal, and independent dispensaries are paying the price. Twenty percent off flower. Buy two vapes, get the third for a penny. Thirty percent off the entire store until noon. Double loyalty points on Wednesday, unless Thursday’s sale turns out to be better.  Cannabis retail has…

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Weed Doesn’t Make You Creative. It Just Gets You Out of the Way.

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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 weed…

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