Thailand Tightens Cannabis Rules With License Suspensions and Prescription Controls

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Thailand has issued new enforcement guidelines for cannabis businesses, introducing license suspensions, possible revocations, stricter reporting rules, and tighter controls around prescriptions, advertising, online sales, and on-site use. The move signals a continued shift away from the country’s post-2022 cannabis boom toward a more controlled medical framework with heavier state oversight. Thailand has moved the…

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The Supreme Court Freed Weed Users’ Gun Rights. Now It Could Free The People Locked Up For It.

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The Supreme Court just ruled you can’t lose your gun rights for smoking weed. The real test is what happens to the people already locked up under that law. One of them gets out July 15. When the Supreme Court ruled last week that you can’t lose your gun rights just for smoking weed, it…

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Some Shamans Call Cannabis A Sacred Medicine. Others Say It Puts Holes In Your Aura.

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Ceremonial cannabis use is on the rise. So is a stranger phenomenon: cannabis getting demonized by other plant medicine practitioners. “You’re giving your life force to weed,” plant medicine facilitator Iván Chocron says on a 2025 episode of the Integrating Consciousness podcast. “And weed is giving you something so that you feel that giving your…

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Slapwoods Honors DJ Screw With Its First Official Collaboration

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Slapwoods is announcing its first-ever official collaboration with DJ Screw, the late Houston legend whose chopped-and-screwed sound changed the pace of hip-hop. The limited release, called The Screw Pack, pairs Slapwoods’ premium natural leaf wraps with a flavor profile inspired by purple soda and dirty Sprite, according to Slapwoods. For a Houston-born brand built around…

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Resistance Is Fertile: A Conversation With Logan Grendel of Focused on Infinity

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It could be so easy to believe that cannabis culture is something that has been fully claimed by the profit-driven forces of capitalism. The polished packaging that lines the shelves of dispensaries. The slick branding that populates the websites of many cannabis advocates and cannabis-centered companies. But somewhere on the streets of Harlem, Logan Grendel—artist,…

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Housing Crisis, Fentanyl, and Dogs With ODs: The Hidden Toll of Skid Row’s Opioid Epidemic

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Animal rescuers and advocacy groups say dogs living on Skid Row are suffering from neglect, abuse, inadequate veterinary care, and, in some cases, alleged exposure to fentanyl-contaminated drugs, while authorities dispute or caution against some of the most extreme claims. The situation has become a broader debate about housing insecurity, addiction, institutional accountability, and the…

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Cannabis Doesn’t Distort Reality. It Shows You the Director’s Cut.

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This article originally appeared in High Times’ 50th Anniversary print issue. It is an excerpt from Jason Silva’s book Sacred Derangement: A Field Guide to Outrageous Creativity, Radical Self-Expression and Living in Awe, published in August 2025 and available now on Amazon. An excerpt from Jason Silva’s new book Sacred Derangement. On cannabis, consciousness as…

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Regulated, Untamed, and Built to Last: Inside Montana Cannabis

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How Montana built a legal cannabis market from a thin medical marijuana law, federal raids, ballot fights, and two decades of stubborn local pressure.  “There’s marijuana stores in Montana?” When it comes to Famous Last Words, those were mine. It was October of 2009. I was sitting on my usual stool at the coffee counter…

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Why Serious Growers Stay Loyal to Hypno Seeds

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Most cannabis genetics are known for one standout trait: yield, potency, or terpene expression. Hypno Seeds built its reputation by refusing to settle for just one.  In cannabis breeding, the easiest path is specialization. Chase yield and you can fill a room with weight. Chase potency and you can push THC to the top of…

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The Trump DOJ Said Weed Smokers Were Too Dangerous To Own Guns. All 9 Supreme Court Justices Disagreed.

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A unanimous Supreme Court ruled the government can’t strip your gun rights just because you smoke weed, and Justice Neil Gorsuch used the government’s own rescheduling to twist the knife. Here is the short version. You can smoke weed every other day and still legally own a gun. The Supreme Court said so on June…

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