The legal weed business taught customers to chase the next deal, and independent dispensaries are paying the price. Twenty percent off flower. Buy two vapes, get the third for a penny. Thirty percent off the entire store until noon. Double loyalty points on Wednesday, unless Thursday’s sale turns out to be better. Cannabis retail has… Keep Reading
Muck Sticky, the Memphis rapper who has lived in pajamas for 24 years, opens up about weed, creativity and radical self-acceptance. As he prepares to launch his own cannabis brand, the independent artist reflects on comfort and resisting a culture obsessed with productivity. In a world seemingly governed by algorithmic cynicism, the mind-numbing laconicism of… 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
Travelers flooded the comments admitting they fly with weed. A top cannabis lawyer says that is not the federal exposure people think it is. The confession that counts is the one operators are signing to go legal. High Times posted a routine update. The TSA had quietly changed a line on its website about traveling… Keep Reading
ScHoolboy Q says he’s done smoking weed and, according to him, the decision came after years of heavy use, a sense that the habit had stopped doing anything for him, and a desire to set an example for his children. Still, he recognized its health benefits —distinguishing it from habits like alcohol— and how it… Keep Reading
The Wayans brothers’ new Scary Movie is leaning all the way into weed culture. There’s an official PAX vaporizer collab, a stoner parody series, a bong in the trailer, and a popcorn bucket shaped like a water pipe that the studio posted but nobody can confirm is actually for sale. The Wayans are back, and… Keep Reading
Strips your terpenes. Wastes your weed. Charges you for the privilege. Tobacco proved this fifty years ago. Cannabis is running it again. The Short Version The chemistry: activated carbon strips volatile terpenes heavily, traps particulate-bound tar only modestly. The tobacco precedent: bench-test reductions disappeared because smokers compensated, then “light” and “low-tar” claims got banned in… 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
How weed, music, and the mountains shaped my life—and put me in office. I didn’t set out to become a mayor. If you had met me years ago—somewhere in a crowd at a Grateful Dead show, completely wrapped up in the music and the feeling of connection—you probably wouldn’t have guessed politics was anywhere in… Keep Reading
B-Real, Xzibit and Demrick have spent decades around rap and weed. On “This Thing of Ours,” the Serial Killers trio sound loose, sharp and fully in command. In this conversation with High Times, B-Real and Xzibit look back on first smokes, touring in the pre-legal era, building cannabis businesses and why age still means nothing… Keep Reading
