Can Weed Feel Like Magic Mushrooms? Johns Hopkins Researchers Put THC to the Test
A four-person Johns Hopkins pilot study found that 25 mg of oral THC could produce altered-state profiles that qualitatively resembled those seen with 25 mg of psilocybin, particularly when consumed in a setting modeled on psychedelic research. The sample is far too small to establish cannabis as a psychedelic, but the findings add to earlier…
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Trump Just Delayed the Hemp Ban. The New Deadline Is the Day Government Funding Runs Out.
He signed it Wednesday. Most of the federal hemp restrictions now take effect on December 11 instead of November 12. That date is also when the stopgap funding bill expires. One deadline did not move at all. The hemp industry got its extension. It did not get much else. On Wednesday, September 2, President Trump…
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LEVIA’s Founders Sold Their Company. Then They Bought It Back.
The founders of LEVIA took opposite paths after selling the brand. What they learned on either side of the deal eventually brought them back together. When Eric and Kristin Rogers built LEVIA, they were not exactly entering a market that was begging for another cannabis beverage. They were laughed out of rooms. Then came 2018…
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CBGB Festival Returns to Brooklyn With a Cannabis Tie-In
Morrissey, Patti Smith, Interpol, Sex Pistols and generations of punk descend on Brooklyn September 26 as Woodstock Cannabis joins the festival and High Times gets in on the action. CBGB and Woodstock came out of very different versions of American counterculture. One grew from a cramped Bowery club where punk bands learned how loud they…
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Massachusetts Is Voting on Whether to Shut Down a $10B Legal Weed Market. Here’s What You Need to Know
On November 3, the state that opened New England’s first legal cannabis market decides whether to close it. What Question 8 does, who paid to put it there, and why almost nobody moved to stop it. 9weeks until the vote $9.88Badult-use sales since 2018 388active retailers, July 2025 14,524unique registered agents, FY2025 $1.55Mraised by the…
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At Hash Hole Island, the Joints Are Six Times the Standard Size
Four years running, a field in Brentwood, California, fills up with people passing joints the size of cigars. RBL Posse and the Mendo Dope Band played this one. The smoke did the rest. A hash hole is a joint with hash rosin running down the center. The rosin burns slower than the flower around it,…
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Are You an Intense, Slow or Double Puffer? Scientists Found Three Ways People Smoke Joints.
Researchers hooked a flowmeter to pre-rolls at social smoke sessions in five states and found three distinct ways people pull on a joint. All three moved more smoke than the cigarette settings cannabis research has been running for decades. Researchers found three ways people smoke a joint, and you are almost certainly one of them.…
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Revelry Buyers’ Club Returns to Pier 36 After Record Hudson Turnout
The September 18 trade gathering heads back to Manhattan after Revelry says its spring event drew 2,800 attendees and representatives from 562 licensed New York retail stores. Revelry is bringing Buyers’ Club back to Manhattan on September 18, and this time it arrives with numbers behind the pitch. According to figures released by On The…
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Are You Overpaying for Weed? High Times Brought Back Its 1974 Price Tracker to Tell You.
High Times started printing weed prices in 1974 so buyers would stop getting fleeced by people who knew the going rate. Trans-High Market Quotations is now a live index at index.hightimes.com, and we want your numbers next. In the summer of 1974, High Times magazine, under the guidance of its very young editor-in-chief, Ed Dwyer,…
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Massive Weed Lab Explosion Leaves Two Dead and a Trail of Questions
The blast tore through a Sand Springs business complex in the middle of the night. Now, court documents are revealing a history of inspection problems, questionable licensing and hazardous materials. At around 1:15 a.m. on August 27, residents of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, got a very rude wake-up call: an explosion at a cannabis extraction facility.…
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