Produced with Matca Films, the new High Times Travel Series opens with two very different stops: a discreet cannabis club culture shaped by island rhythm and neighborhood respect in Mallorca, and a fast-growing medical cannabis infrastructure boom just outside Lisbon.
High Times has a new travel series on YouTube, and the smart thing about it is that it does not treat cannabis culture like a souvenir.
Produced with Matca Films, the High Times Travel Series is starting from a simple but useful premise: if you really want to understand cannabis somewhere, you have to look beyond the laws and the clichés. You have to see how it actually lives in a place, how people move around it, what local customs shape it and what unspoken rules hold it together. That is the thread running through the first two episodes, which jump from Mallorca to Portugal without flattening either place into generic “weed tourism” content.
The first episode, “Inside the Cannabis Underground of a Mediterranean Paradise,” goes to Mallorca, where the cannabis scene is framed less as a party attraction than as something quieter, more local and more careful. The episode’s guide, Roger, describes the island as a place with its own rhythm, one where cannabis culture sits alongside food, history, climbing, cycling, sea sports and a more discreet way of moving through the world. “Mallorca isn’t just another Mediterranean island,” he says. “Every sunrise here reminds you that this place has its own rhythm.”
That tone matters, because the episode is clearly trying to avoid the usual lazy image of Spain as nonstop social-club hedonism. Instead, it spends time on a hemp-related agricultural project, then heads into Palma to look at how private membership clubs actually function inside tightly packed neighborhoods where discretion is not optional. Roger explains …
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