Queer activists helped build legal cannabis from the ground up. The industry should remember that history before respectability politics leaves it with no real allies. Corporate Pride is retreating, even though the business case for supporting LGBTQ+ people has never been clearer. Queer consumers are loyal, vocal, culturally powerful, and connected to every taste-making industry… Keep Reading
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… Keep Reading
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… Keep Reading
From infused pasta to organic live rosin, four chefs are cooking weed into something Michelin should hand 420 stars for. There was a time, long ago, when the culinary horizon of the average stoner ended with a dry (so dry!) pot brownie, as brittle as dust. Back then, anything went: adding flower to any ultra-processed… Keep Reading
From robot canopy scanners to algorithmic breeders to AI-powered dispensary counters, artificial intelligence is remaking cannabis at every level. The question nobody has fully answered: does this help the people who built the culture, or does it replace them? Somewhere in Fredericton, New Brunswick, a robot is watching the weed grow. It moves along cables… Keep Reading
From a black currant sour to an espresso martini riff, here are five THC cocktails to pour this summer, plus the bottles worth keeping in the fridge. No hangover required. There is a moment at almost every summer party when the bar opens. The wines, the whiskeys, the canned cocktails, the cold beers. I am… Keep Reading
After getting fired from multiple legal-sector jobs, Fergie Baby started secretly filming music videos inside Empire’s offices. Instead of firing him, the label signed him. Fergie Baby’s signing story sounds less like a polished industry tale and more like the kind of Harlem legend that gets better every time somebody tells it outside the studio… Keep Reading
A new AI-assisted sci-fi satire from filmmaker Dan Levy Dagerman and the Space Weed Universe collective premiered its trailer at Cannes. Martians arrive, get high, and deliver a verdict on the difference between cinema and content. The cannabis angle is older than humanity. “Where I’m from, movies like the one you’re watching would never be… Keep Reading
Sam Adler grew up hyperactive in Manhattan, learned chess from a Russian janitor at age five, and eventually decided that cannabis and the Royal Game belong together. His father used to write record reviews for High Times. His mother hosts a PBS cooking show. Neither is particularly surprised by where he ended up. Sam Adler… Keep Reading
Notes from the road, and where pre-rolls are taking us Before you light up, think about what you reach for when you want a joint. A fat cone, a slim dog walker, an infused rocket, a glass tip blunt, a spliff cut with tobacco, a hand roll in thin paper that burns like a ribbon.… Keep Reading
