Exclusive: New Study Finds People Drinking THC Beverages Reached for Alcohol Half as Often. Every Product Tested Is About to Be Banned.

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4,516 people logged what they drank for three weeks. On the days they had a THC beverage, their odds of also drinking alcohol fell by roughly half. The finding held for 23 of the 36 products tested, and moved the same direction in every one. The largest real-world study of hemp THC beverages has published…

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Matthew McConaughey Got So High He Missed His Own Birthday Party After Playing the Same Song 24 Times 

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Matthew McConaughey has apparently discovered the outer limit of how many consecutive plays of Janet Jackson’s “That’s the Way Love Goes” one man can handle before reevaluating his relationship with weed. For him, that number is 24. In a new Rolling Stone interview about the music that has shaped the soundtrack of his life, McConaughey…

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Athletes on Medical Cannabis Want Sleep and Focus, Not Muscle Recovery, Study Finds

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Every CBD-for-athletes pitch of the last decade has sold the same story: sore muscles, faster recovery, inflammation. A dataset covering 47,522 people who both train and use medical cannabis says the top complaints are something else entirely. Focus. Sleep. Stress. The recovery pitch has been the entire commercial thesis behind cannabis in sport. Sponsorships, product…

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Trump Signed an Order Paying Farmers to Heal Their Soil. Weed Growers Get Nothing.

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Sun-grown cannabis, living soil, and the growers building a regenerative future while federal money flows everywhere but their fields This past June, President Trump signed an executive order expanding a pilot program the USDA had already funded, routed through conservation programs like EQIP and the Conservation Stewardship Program, which pays farmers for building soil health.…

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A Plane Dropped 300 Feet. The Pilot Tested Positive for Weed. Almost Nobody Mentioned He Wasn’t the One Flying It.

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Headlines around the world tied a captain’s positive marijuana test to a terrifying midair plunge. He wasn’t the one flying. The first officer was at the controls, and Airbus says the aircraft registered pressure losses across all three hydraulic systems and that key flight controls stopped responding for four seconds. Every one of those headlines…

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Can THC Quiet PTSD Nightmares? New Research Offers Clues 

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We’ve all had nightmares at some point. The agitation, the fear, the scenarios our own minds create and take us into. The problem is that for people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), nightmares aren’t simply occasional bad dreams. They can become an endless loop that is desperately difficult to manage; a way of reliving that…

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Lev Parnas Says He Almost Became a Weed Mogul. Then Came Trump, Ukraine and Prison. Now He’s Running for Congress on a Legalization Platform.

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In 2018, Lev Parnas says he was offered ten percent of what became America’s biggest weed company. Trulieve says that never happened. Then Rudy Giuliani pulled him into Ukraine, and the case that later put him in federal prison included a scheme prosecutors said was aimed at buying political influence tied to marijuana licenses with…

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Modern Weed Etiquette: How to Share a Buzz Without Killing the Vibe

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Weed etiquette used to begin and end with puff, puff, pass. Now that cannabis shows up at cookouts, game nights, and dinner parties, being considerate takes a little more awareness.  Most people know the classics. Puff, puff, pass. Don’t bogart the joint. Ash it before you hand it over. Corner the bowl so the next…

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The Death of a Fifth-Generation Vermont Farm

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A Social Equity Applicant’s Story of Hope, Legalization, and Loss In a matter of weeks, I’ll lock the door to my family’s farmhouse for the last time and walk away. My great-great-grandfather, Bial, bought this Vermont farm in 1909. For 117 years, five generations of my family lived, worked, and died here. The old slate…

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‘I Was Kind of High for a Lot of This’: Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat on Getting Stoned to Make ‘The Wrong Girls’

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Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat on playing best-friend stoners, getting high on set on purpose and by accident, and the movie Dylan Meyer spent a decade pushing up the hill. The Wrong Girls, from writer and director Dylan Meyer, is a wholesome stoner comedy. The movie features an experimental drug, conspiracies, mad scientists, and, without…

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