For a year, the loudest opponents of rescheduling have called reform a corporate payday. In a July 2 filing defending rescheduling, the Justice Department told a federal court the money is on the other side: the two groups trying to freeze the policy are guarding a commercial interest the drug laws were never written to… Keep Reading
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… Keep Reading
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… Keep Reading
For nearly a decade, the Netherlands has been trying to put Europe’s most dangerous drug lord behind bars. The cost has been lawyers in prison, journalists shot in the street, and a justice system that no longer feels safe defending its own rules. Key Takeaways The Marengo trial exposed a criminal network so deeply embedded… Keep Reading
For Mother’s Day, Maya Elisabeth asked mothers across the cannabis community to talk about the plant in their own words. What came back was honest, funny and completely their own. Motherhood made me who I am. So did cannabis. I’ve found the two go hand in hand in ways I didn’t expect: stress relief, staying… Keep Reading
For Craig Palmer, ending up in High Times still feels slightly unreal. He’s been reading the magazine since he was a teenager. Now, after placing in the first official High Times New York Cannabis Cup, he’s part of the story instead of just flipping through it. Palmer isn’t a newcomer riding legalization hype. He’s been… Keep Reading
For a decade, cannabis brands expanded like tech startups. They were fast and loud, maybe overestimated, perhaps a bit unsustainable. New states opened, investors flooded in, and expansion became the metric of legitimacy. Jetty Extracts didn’t follow that script. While many California operators rushed to plant flags across the country, Jetty stayed home. The brand… Keep Reading
