In mid-December, a small cannabis and CBD shop in Leadville, Colorado, caught fire. It was a structure fire in an old building, complicated by hidden voids in the walls. Fire crews from multiple counties responded. Nearby homes were evacuated as a precaution. Local officials issued an air quality alert, advising residents to stay indoors or… Keep Reading
“Prop 64 did that… Big corporations started buying up small family farms, thinking they could grow better… Maybe some of those smaller family farms can come back.” California Treasurer Fiona Ma didn’t stop at calling the state’s legalization framework a failure. In Part 1 of our coverage from IgniteIt’s Market Spotlight: California, she broke down… Keep Reading
Since August 2025, U.S. naval forces have carried out missile strikes on small boats off the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia — attacks the Trump administration claims target narcotics traffickers but which critics call a new front in political warfare. Yet the scale, targets, and rhetoric surrounding these operations suggest broader political aims, namely, the… Keep Reading
TL;DR: A new paper in Nature Communications looked at THC around eggs during IVF and saw a small dip in the share of embryos that look chromosomally “normal” in the lab. A local TV piece turned that into “weed causes infertility, miscarriages, and genetic defects.” That’s not what the study showed. It didn’t track pregnancies… Keep Reading
Microdosing is the often inexact practice of consuming small doses of psychedelics, notably psilocybin and LSD. While some measure 0.1 and 0.3 mg quantities, many eyeball it with an estimated pinch into their mouths or beverages. The microdosing trend kicked off around 2010, with its popularity surging by 2015, leading to notable publications running with… Keep Reading
It’s a big day! Change has come. At the bare minimum, on a very small scale, but change nonetheless. My name is Cody Lee. I’m the new Digital Editor here at High Times. It’s unbelievable that William S. Burroughs wrote for this magazine. I grew up idolizing him, and now here we are. The first… Keep Reading
