As cannabis becomes a booming global industry, America is stuck on the sidelines. While countries like Canada, Portugal and Colombia ship products around the world, U.S. federal laws block companies from exporting — and that delay could be costing up to $10 billion a year in lost trade, jobs and influence. When I first asked… Keep Reading
For the first time, Latin America will host a gathering of the world’s leading minds in psychedelics, mental health, and longevity. On October 8–10, Buenos Aires will become the stage for LaPsyConf, a three-day conference bringing together scientists, regulators, entrepreneurs, and investors to explore the future of therapeutic innovation. Psychedelics at the Center of a… Keep Reading
Even as cannabis legalization spreads across America, a stark injustice remains unresolved: veterans imprisoned for nonviolent cannabis offenses are still serving long sentences. This week, the Last Prisoner Project and the Balanced Veterans Network have joined forces to bring their stories to light and push Congress to stop penalizing those who served. Locked Up for… Keep Reading
Times Square has always been a billboard for America. Broadway musicals, candy brands, soda giants, sneakers, all glowing for the world to see. Now, cannabis is part of that light show. The Daily Green, a licensed New York dispensary, recently lit up a towering vertical sign spelling out CANNABIS across from the TKTS red stairs.… Keep Reading
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Currently there are approximately 140,000 college graduates in America who can’t find work commensurate with their level of education. While through-out the ’60s and ’70s American colleges feverishly pumped out a steadily increasing volume of highly trained and educated people, the local market for their services has actually diminished, thanks to computerization and the… Keep Reading
More than any big city in America, San Francisco has always been on the cutting edge of cannabis consumption––from the beats and poets smoking “mezz” while inhabiting the 1950s North Beach “beat scene” to the openly stoned hippies of 1960s Haight-Ashbury. Cannabis consumption in the “City by the Bay” continued with the groundbreaking use of… Keep Reading
Few cannabis operations in America can enjoy the level of respect from peers Preferred Gardens has through its rise in California to its massive Florida launch that has many calling its flower the Sunshine State’s finest. It’s the same story back home in California. Not only is Preferred Gardens a contender in the debate about… Keep Reading
Named recently as the fastest woman in America, Sha’Carri Richardson could miss the Olympics over reportedly failing a drug test. Read More Author: Addison Herron-Wheeler / High Times Keep Reading
Was David Wheeler the man who brought sinsemilla to North America, using David Crosby as a guinea pig? Read More Author: High Times / High Times Keep Reading
Businessmen who made a quick buck by hooking rural America on opioids are in for the court case of a lifetime. Will they pay or walk away? Read More Author: Tim Brinkhof / High Times Keep Reading
