On pleasure, respectability, and the parts of cannabis culture worth protecting. The other night I got high with a few friends. Not to unlock my third eye, crush a deadline, or biohack my nervous system into a state of tantric productivity. We weren’t chasing enlightenment or insight or growth. We just wanted to laugh. To… Keep Reading
On occasion, geography offers up some profoundly useful glitches. Other times, with skill and ingenuity, humankind turns that geography into an asset. And in the case of the park bench that stars in this story, you’d swear the hand of God intervened purely for the people’s enjoyment. In Plaza Abaroa, in La Paz’s posh Sopocachi… Keep Reading
Joshua Kesselman, the man behind the RAW® brand of rolling papers and other smoking accessories, didn’t name his brand after a process. He named it after a feeling. A feeling of realness, energy, and truth. The word came to him “through the emotion in a classic hip-hop track’s lyrics; a raw expression of honesty and… Keep Reading
Workers lit the fire, and now the industry’s feeling the heat. You gotta fight for it: there’s no other way. After forty-five days walking the picket line through Pennsylvania’s early-winter chill, the cannabis workers at RISE Dispensary in York proved something simple yet revolutionary: collective action works. What started as a demand for equal pay… Keep Reading
While cannabis is now legal in almost half the country, thousands are still arrested in other parts of the United States simply for carrying weed. In 2024, more than 20% of drug arrests were for cannabis possession, according to NORML’s analysis of FBI Crime Data Explorer figures. To put that into perspective, last year saw… Keep Reading
In Germany, as in so many other countries, soccer transcends sport and is woven into the fabric that brings neighborhoods together, integrates diverse communities, and builds a sense of national identity. 1. FC Union Berlin is living proof of that. Born in a working-class district, its community identity was strengthened through gestures that are now… Keep Reading
“Cannabis is dangerous.” “Weed leads you to other drugs.” “Marijuana opens the door to harder substances.” How many times have we heard these claims, without clear support or solid scientific evidence behind them? Too many to count, right? Now, a study backed by the Japanese government itself is using hard data to dismantle one of… Keep Reading
How can you ever apply this to any other brand of nutrients? Or on soil? This will only work with General Hydroponics in a hydroponics system. What about lighting? That would also change a plants needs, right? Read More Author: Sanne van Schie / High Times Keep Reading
A life-size statue of Optimus Prime and other Transformers characters were packed with massive amounts of ketamine, Thai police say. Police in Bangkok, Thailand intercepted about 705 pounds of ketamine hidden inside Transformers statues, marking one of the country’s biggest busts in recent years. The estimated market value is as high as NT$600 million (about… Keep Reading
By Karen Bettez Halnon Marijuana-smokers, like members of other close-knit groups, have a special language. But often people in the straight-and-narrow world just don’t understand it. Strange and alien to outsiders are words such as nugs, dank, permagrin, wake’n’bake, blunt, bogarting, Rastafarian, Towlie, or even coffeeshops. After 30 years of full-blown marijuana counterculture, outsiders still… Keep Reading
