Hawaii Banned Smokable Hemp in 2020. Stores Sold It Openly for Five Years. Then the Crackdown Began. Hawaii's Act 14 prohibited smokable hemp in 2020. For five years stores sold flower, pre-rolls and vapes openly, hired staff and built a customer base on top of it. Then the 2025 registration law gave the state inspection and seizure powers, enforcement began, and one Oahu retailer says he lost 90% of his revenue in weeks. Both things are true at once, and only one of them shows up in the statute. <p>The post…

Ren and Chris Webby Got High in the Woods and Made the Best Album I’ve Heard All Year I found Ren by accident in a Chicago hotel room and I've been interviewing Chris Webby since 2018. They met through a comment section, holed up in a house in the Connecticut woods and came out with fifteen songs that didn't exist when they walked in. It's the best album I've heard all year, and the documentary explains why: you can hear the friendship. <p>The post Ren and Chris Webby Got High in…

Can Weed Feel Like Magic Mushrooms? Johns Hopkins Researchers Put THC to the Test A four-person Johns Hopkins pilot study found that 25 mg of oral THC could produce altered-state profiles that qualitatively resembled those seen with 25 mg of psilocybin, particularly when consumed in a setting modeled on psychedelic research. The sample is far too small to establish cannabis as a psychedelic, but the findings add to earlier research suggesting that dose, context, and individual response can push THC experiences into unexpectedly psychedelic-like territory. <p>The post Can Weed Feel Like…

Trump Just Delayed the Hemp Ban. The New Deadline Is the Day Government Funding Runs Out. Trump signed H.R. 6500 on Wednesday, giving the hemp industry twenty-nine extra days. December 11 is also the day the stopgap funding bill expires, so if Congress needs another hemp fix it will be negotiating inside the next appropriations fight. And one deadline didn't move: products containing cannabinoids the cannabis plant can't naturally produce still lose federal hemp status on November 12, with the FDA list that would identify them still unpublished nearly seven months…

LEVIA’s Founders Sold Their Company. Then They Bought It Back. LEVIA founders Eric and Kristin built a cannabis beverage brand, watched it change inside an MSO, and returned to build the next version on their own terms. <p>The post LEVIA’s Founders Sold Their Company. Then They Bought It Back. first appeared on High Times.</p>

CBGB Festival Returns to Brooklyn With a Cannabis Tie-In CBGB Festival returns to Brooklyn September 26 with Morrissey, Patti Smith, Interpol, Sex Pistols, Woodstock Cannabis, and High Times in the mix. <p>The post CBGB Festival Returns to Brooklyn With a Cannabis Tie-In first appeared on High Times.</p>

Massachusetts Is Voting on Whether to Shut Down a $10B Legal Weed Market. Here’s What You Need to Know No American state has ever voted to repeal an existing adult-use marijuana legalization law. Massachusetts gets the chance in nine weeks. Question 8 would repeal two chapters of law, end licensed sales on January 1, 2028 and eliminate home growing. One donor paid for the entire campaign that put it on the ballot, and the side defending legalization spent most of the past year in court instead of on television. <p>The post…

At Hash Hole Island, the Joints Are Six Times the Standard Size Most hash holes are built with about a gram and a half of flower and half a gram of rosin. The ones going around at Hash Hole Island run six times that. Four years in, our photographer still can't finish one on his own. <p>The post At Hash Hole Island, the Joints Are Six Times the Standard Size first appeared on High Times.</p>

Are You an Intense, Slow or Double Puffer? Scientists Found Three Ways People Smoke Joints. Intense, slow and double puff. Researchers took a flowmeter to smoke sessions in five states, kept 51 usable readings and found the gentle pull moves more smoke than the hard one. All three profiles came in bigger than the cigarette settings cannabis smoke research has relied on for decades. <p>The post Are You an Intense, Slow or Double Puffer? Scientists Found Three Ways People Smoke Joints. first appeared on High Times.</p>

Are You Overpaying for Weed? High Times Brought Back Its 1974 Price Tracker to Tell You. High Times started printing weed prices in 1974 so buyers would stop getting fleeced by people who knew the going rate. Trans-High Market Quotations is now a live index built on daily dispensary point-of-sale data, free, sortable by state. And for the markets receipts never reach, we want your numbers. <p>The post Are You Overpaying for Weed? High Times Brought Back Its 1974 Price Tracker to Tell You. first appeared on High Times.</p>

Revelry Buyers’ Club Returns to Pier 36 After Record Hudson Turnout After drawing 2,800 attendees and 562 licensed retail stores in Hudson, Revelry brings Buyers’ Club Fall to Manhattan on September 18. <p>The post Revelry Buyers’ Club Returns to Pier 36 After Record Hudson Turnout first appeared on High Times.</p>

Massive Weed Lab Explosion Leaves Two Dead and a Trail of Questions   A deadly explosion at a cannabis extraction facility in Sand Springs left two workers dead, damaged at least 25 businesses and raised serious questions about licensing, hazardous materials and safety violations. <p>The post Massive Weed Lab Explosion Leaves Two Dead and a Trail of Questions   first appeared on High Times.</p>

Submersion Knows a Festival Lives or Dies in the Details Submersion’s founders built a boutique festival around careful curation, harm reduction, sunrise sets, and a cannabis lounge with a purpose. <p>The post Submersion Knows a Festival Lives or Dies in the Details first appeared on High Times.</p>

High Times Strains of the Month: September 2026 Terp Sherpa David Downs rounds up ten strains blazing up the charts in legal states for the start of fall, from the Zalympix-sweeping Giraffe P to a $20,000 Peach Tree clone, plus Maine Trees' BBL2, Fig Farms' Hijinx and a Michigan Fruit Loops on a four-win tear. <p>The post High Times Strains of the Month: September 2026 first appeared on High Times.</p>

In 40 Years, MAPS Partnered With Universities, Clinicians and the Pentagon. It Just Signed Its First Deal With a Weed Shop. The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies has worked with universities, clinicians and the Department of Defense. Its first partnership with a cannabis company is HoneyProjects, a three-store New Jersey operator whose newest dispensary opened August 29 in Elmwood Park. It's education and outreach at retail, not research, and that's what makes the venue interesting. <p>The post In 40 Years, MAPS Partnered With Universities, Clinicians and the Pentagon. It Just Signed…

The US Open Reeks of Weed, Again: Tennis Pros Have Thoughts  At the US Open, the smell of weed is back in force — like someone just cracked open Snoop Dogg’s laundry bag. From Court 17 to the park courts, players have plenty to say about it. <p>The post The US Open Reeks of Weed, Again: Tennis Pros Have Thoughts  first appeared on High Times.</p>

$10 Million Meant for Florida’s Children’s Health Care Was Misappropriated to Help Kill Legal Weed, Grand Jury Finds A Leon County grand jury concluded the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million owed to Florida's Healthy Kids program and moved it "as part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities," with $8.5 million landing in the committee that fought marijuana legalization. No one was charged, because no witness would say who made the decision. Uthmeier and Moody are both on the November ballot, and Republicans including Rick Scott are now criticizing the…

The New Rules of Shopping for Cannabinoids How cannabinoid combinations are formulated, what THC changes, and how to read the label and the lab report before you buy. <p>The post The New Rules of Shopping for Cannabinoids first appeared on High Times.</p>

Who Gets to Name a Weed Strain? Nobody. Everybody. There is no registry for strain names, no copyright and no authority to appeal to. James Loud, Jorge Cervantes, Kyle Kushman, Denise Yacar, Ramiro Gopar and Sergio Puerta explain who earns the right to name a plant, why the mother's name comes first, how Jack Herer got its name, and why reputation is the only enforcement mechanism the culture has ever had. <p>The post Who Gets to Name a Weed Strain? Nobody. Everybody. first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Industry Bet Against Bud. Flower Smokers Never Left. Grown Rogue CEO Obie Strickler argues cannabis leaders misread the market by predicting flower would lose its grip on regular consumers. <p>The post The Industry Bet Against Bud. Flower Smokers Never Left. first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Record That Decides Whether Weed Leaves Schedule I Just Needed 294 Corrections. A Few Reversed What Witnesses Said. A Tennessee investigator testified that cannabis shipments arrive with paperwork claiming legal levels of delta-9 THC, and the lab finds much higher. For six weeks the record said illegal. That was one of 294 corrections Judge Derek Julius ordered before the DEA published the full 2,533-page transcript. Most are clerical. A handful changed what a witness said, including one that had the direction of rescheduling backwards. <p>The post The Record That Decides…

The Future of Cannabis Tourism Starts on the Farm Cannabis farm visits can educate travelers, support small growers, and connect consumers with Northern California’s land, people, and history. <p>The post The Future of Cannabis Tourism Starts on the Farm first appeared on High Times.</p>

Weed Can’t Get Past 34%. The Labels Go to 42%. The System Rewards the Lie. Someone bought fifteen cannabis products off Denver shelves and sent them to a lab. Two came back legal. On average the labels claimed 34.2% more THC than the products held. A Spanish engineer who has spent sixteen years scanning flower explains why the incentive to inflate runs through every link in the chain, why California calculates that fixing it costs four times what consumers would gain, and what would actually break the loop. <p>The post Weed…

Dave Asprey Built Biohacking as a Trojan Horse for Higher Consciousness Dave Asprey talks psychedelics, plant intelligence, integration, surrender, and why biohacking was always a path toward higher consciousness. <p>The post Dave Asprey Built Biohacking as a Trojan Horse for Higher Consciousness first appeared on High Times.</p>

Sonoma County Sent Drones to Find Illegal Weed. Keni Meyer Lost Her Home Over Building-Code Violations Unrelated to Cannabis. Sonoma County launched its drone program in 2019 to find unpermitted cannabis grows. Keni Meyer lost her home over building codes and lives in a trailer park. Elias Stravenitis lost a $250,000 nursery and 20 jobs and is fighting a million-dollar fine. Jeremy Freitas, fully licensed, racked up $83,000 trying to comply. The county has paused the program while it negotiates with the ACLU. <p>The post Sonoma County Sent Drones to Find…

Did Tupac’s Friends Really Smoke His Ashes? The Full Story Behind the Legend Members of Outlawz have long claimed they mixed Tupac Shakur’s ashes with weed and smoked them after his death. Years later, Suge Knight offered a similar account, adding new details to one of hip-hop’s strangest legends. <p>The post Did Tupac’s Friends Really Smoke His Ashes? The Full Story Behind the Legend first appeared on High Times.</p>

Land of the Free? US Recorded More Than 200,000 Marijuana Possession Arrests in 2025 More than 200,000 people were arrested for marijuana possession in the US in 2025, accounting for nearly a quarter of all drug-related arrests nationwide. <p>The post Land of the Free? US Recorded More Than 200,000 Marijuana Possession Arrests in 2025 first appeared on High Times.</p>

A 10-Year-Old Built an AI “Nose” for Airports. Could It One Day Detect Drugs? A 10-year-old inventor from Taiwan built an AI-assisted “electronic nose” designed to analyze the air around luggage. It started as a pork detector, but the same concept could one day help identify drugs like fentanyl. <p>The post A 10-Year-Old Built an AI “Nose” for Airports. Could It One Day Detect Drugs? first appeared on High Times.</p>

Stacey Rusch Knows How to Sell a Story Stacey Rusch went from yoga and QVC to reality TV and cannabis. SHAYO may be her latest act, but the real story is how she learned to command a room. <p>The post Stacey Rusch Knows How to Sell a Story first appeared on High Times.</p>

Black Cannabis Week Returns to Philadelphia Sept. 25-27, With a Free Expungement Clinic The ninth annual Cannabis Opportunities Conference anchors three days of policy panels, workforce programming, scholarships and a pitch event for early-stage founders. Sunday's Community Day is free and open to the public. <p>The post Black Cannabis Week Returns to Philadelphia Sept. 25-27, With a Free Expungement Clinic first appeared on High Times.</p>

Barney’s Farm: 40 Years of Cannabis Seed Genetics Barney's Farm marks 40 years of award-winning cannabis genetics — with new F1 precision hybrids, autoflower F1s, and expansion across the US and Germany. <p>The post Barney’s Farm: 40 Years of Cannabis Seed Genetics first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Americans Most Convinced Weed Is Bad for You Don’t Smoke It Themselves. So, How Do They Know? 10% of Republicans smoke cannabis and 24% call its effect very negative. Among adults 18 to 34 it's 27% and 8%. Where use is highest, condemnation is lowest, and the reverse. The one thing Gallup's crosstabs actually show, and the several things they don't. <p>The post The Americans Most Convinced Weed Is Bad for You Don’t Smoke It Themselves. So, How Do They Know? first appeared on High Times.</p>

The FDA Wants to Know How You Use Cannabis—Useful or Concerning? The FDA is seeking outside data and analytics services to better understand how people use cannabis, CBD, and other emerging products through public social-media conversations, consumer surveys, and market intelligence. The request does not establish access to private messages, but it does point to a much more systematic federal effort to analyze how cannabis consumers <p>The post The FDA Wants to Know How You Use Cannabis—Useful or Concerning? first appeared on High Times.</p>

Chile’s Cannabis Crackdown Is Officially Here: Inside Operación Imperio Ámsterdam Chile’s Operación Imperio Ámsterdam has intensified a sweeping crackdown on medical cannabis networks, leaving more than 16,000 patients facing disrupted access and exposing deep legal gaps around collective cultivation and the right to health. <p>The post Chile’s Cannabis Crackdown Is Officially Here: Inside Operación Imperio Ámsterdam first appeared on High Times.</p>

100% More THC = 15% Stronger High. So Why Did Weed Spend 30 Years Chasing the Number? Doubling an inhaled dose of THC from 5 mg to 10 mg moves the self-reported high from 34 to 39 on a 100-point scale. The market spent 30 years chasing the number anyway. Four researchers on what a percentage does and doesn't tell you, and what replaces it. <p>The post 100% More THC = 15% Stronger High. So Why Did Weed Spend 30 Years Chasing the Number? first appeared on High Times.</p>

Who Are the Latino Leaders Cannabis Should Know? Nominations Open Friday for the First Latino Power 100. High Times, the National Hispanic Cannabis Council and El Planteo are launching a new annual list recognizing 100 Latino and Hispanic leaders shaping cannabis worldwide. Nominations open August 21 and close September 11. Anyone can put forward a candidate, including themselves, from anywhere in the world. <p>The post Who Are the Latino Leaders Cannabis Should Know? Nominations Open Friday for the First Latino Power 100. first appeared on High Times.</p>

‘Marijuana Can No Longer Remain in Schedule I’: Inside the Government’s Final Case for Rescheduling Weed—and the Witnesses It Tore Apart The government's 50-page closing argument asks Judge Derek Julius to "expeditiously recommend" moving marijuana to Schedule III. Its closing section attacks the credibility of nearly every witness who opposed the change and quotes several of them making the medical case anyway. The DEA's own pharmacologist appears once. The opposition's brief cites her 25 times. Plus: the judge's transcript-correction order, filed Thursday. <p>The post ‘Marijuana Can No Longer Remain in Schedule…

Rush’s Alex Lifeson Quit Weed at 72—Says He Never Expected to Feel This Good Alex Lifeson quit cannabis at 72 while preparing for Rush’s return to the road, saying he wanted better focus, discipline, memory, and mental sharpness. After decades of openly enjoying weed, he says the change has been unexpectedly positive—even if he initially hoped it wouldn’t be. At 72, after decades of having a pretty open relationship <p>The post Rush’s Alex Lifeson Quit Weed at 72—Says He Never Expected to Feel This Good first appeared on High Times.</p>

Gillian Anderson Opens Up About Drugs: Meth, a School Arrest, and a Bad Weed Trip  Before becoming Dana Scully and spending years investigating unexplained phenomena on The X-Files, Gillian Anderson found herself in a teenage episode that could easily have ended up in one of those files. The actress recounted that, as a teenager, she was arrested after breaking into her school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at night. As she <p>The post Gillian Anderson Opens Up About Drugs: Meth, a School Arrest, and a Bad Weed Trip  first appeared on High…

The Universal Baller Put My Daily Driver in the Ground After years of testing vaporizers, the Universal Baller replaced the author’s longtime daily driver in a week. Here’s why the $500 ball vape won. <p>The post The Universal Baller Put My Daily Driver in the Ground first appeared on High Times.</p>

Speed Without Compromise: Eight New Autoflower Strains From Barney’s Farm Meet eight new autoflower strains from Barney's Farm: dessert-sweet Cookies cuts, landrace Afghan power and diesel punch, all in a fast, light-independent cycle. <p>The post Speed Without Compromise: Eight New Autoflower Strains From Barney’s Farm first appeared on High Times.</p>

Barcelona’s Plan Druida Is Turning Up the Pressure on Cannabis Clubs Barcelona’s new Plan Druida ramps up police presence, surveillance and enforcement across the city, with cannabis clubs firmly in the crosshairs. Authorities call it a modern public-safety strategy, but its critics see a familiar prohibitionist playbook with a new name. <p>The post Barcelona’s Plan Druida Is Turning Up the Pressure on Cannabis Clubs first appeared on High Times.</p>

Exclusive: New Study Finds People Drinking THC Beverages Reached for Alcohol Half as Often. Every Product Tested Is About to Be Banned. MoreBetter tracked 4,516 people across 36 hemp THC beverages for three weeks each. On days participants drank one, their modeled probability of also drinking alcohol fell from 22.9% to 10.9%, significant for 23 of the 36 products and moving the same direction in every case. Fifty days after the study ended, 63% of those surveyed said they were still drinking less. None of the 36 products would clear the…

Matthew McConaughey Got So High He Missed His Own Birthday Party After Playing the Same Song 24 Times  Matthew McConaughey says one unexpectedly intense high left him sitting outside his own birthday party, replaying Janet Jackson’s “That’s the Way Love Goes” 24 times—and ultimately rethinking weed altogether. <p>The post Matthew McConaughey Got So High He Missed His Own Birthday Party After Playing the Same Song 24 Times  first appeared on High Times.</p>

Athletes on Medical Cannabis Want Sleep and Focus, Not Muscle Recovery, Study Finds Every CBD-for-athletes pitch has sold recovery. A report on 47,522 patients who train and use medical cannabis points somewhere else entirely. <p>The post Athletes on Medical Cannabis Want Sleep and Focus, Not Muscle Recovery, Study Finds first appeared on High Times.</p>

Trump Signed an Order Paying Farmers to Heal Their Soil. Weed Growers Get Nothing. In June, Trump signed an executive order paying farmers to rebuild their soil. Hemp growers qualify. State-licensed cannabis growers do not. Inside the certifiers and the small farms doing the work anyway, from mycorrhizal inoculation to a Vermont field fed by dairy manure and spent brewery grain. <p>The post Trump Signed an Order Paying Farmers to Heal Their Soil. Weed Growers Get Nothing. first appeared on High Times.</p>

A Plane Dropped 300 Feet. The Pilot Tested Positive for Weed. Almost Nobody Mentioned He Wasn’t the One Flying It. Air India flight AI2379 dropped roughly 300 feet over the Odisha coast on August 4, injuring 24 people. Its captain later tested positive for cannabis, and that became the story. What most of the coverage buried: the first officer was at the controls, the captain was standing behind his seat, and Airbus says all three hydraulic systems lost pressure while the elevators and ailerons went unresponsive for about four seconds. <p>The…

Can THC Quiet PTSD Nightmares? New Research Offers Clues  A new study published in Nature Medicine found that dronabinol, a pharmaceutical form of THC, significantly reduced trauma-related nightmares in people with PTSD. The findings raise new questions about the relationship between cannabis, REM sleep, and how the brain processes traumatic experiences at night. <p>The post Can THC Quiet PTSD Nightmares? New Research Offers Clues  first appeared on High Times.</p>

Lev Parnas Says He Almost Became a Weed Mogul. Then Came Trump, Ukraine and Prison. Now He’s Running for Congress on a Legalization Platform. He almost became a weed mogul. Instead, he became Trump's man in Ukraine, a central figure in the first impeachment and a federal inmate. Lev Parnas on the Trulieve deal that got away, the memo he brought Trump on legalizing marijuana and why he's running for Congress as an independent. <p>The post Lev Parnas Says He Almost Became a Weed Mogul. Then Came Trump, Ukraine and Prison.…

Modern Weed Etiquette: How to Share a Buzz Without Killing the Vibe A fun, no-stress guide to modern cannabis etiquette, and how low-key options like Levia let you join in without smoking up the whole party. <p>The post Modern Weed Etiquette: How to Share a Buzz Without Killing the Vibe first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Death of a Fifth-Generation Vermont Farm A fifth-generation Vermont farmer recounts how hemp collapse, debt, COVID, and cannabis oversaturation contributed to losing his family farm. <p>The post The Death of a Fifth-Generation Vermont Farm first appeared on High Times.</p>

‘I Was Kind of High for a Lot of This’: Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat on Getting Stoned to Make ‘The Wrong Girls’ Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat play best-friend stoners on the run in Dylan Meyer's "The Wrong Girls," a decade in the making. They talk about getting high on set, why Shawkat's two accidental highs produced some of the best scenes in the movie, and the two-shot as an art form. <p>The post ‘I Was Kind of High for a Lot of This’: Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat on…

‘I Want to go Home’: The Time Blink-182 Got Stupid High With Cypress Hill Before a Show Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge once got extremely high with Cypress Hill before a Blink-182 show, turning the night into what felt like an endless ordeal. Somehow, fans remember it as one of the band’s most electrifying performances. <p>The post ‘I Want to go Home’: The Time Blink-182 Got Stupid High With Cypress Hill Before a Show first appeared on High Times.</p>

Australia Bans ‘Halloween’ Video Game Over Weed, Not Its Brutal Violence Australia banned Halloween: The Game, but not because of its brutal violence. A cannabis-related gameplay mechanic was enough to earn the horror title a Refused Classification. <p>The post Australia Bans ‘Halloween’ Video Game Over Weed, Not Its Brutal Violence first appeared on High Times.</p>

Can Jamaica’s New Cannabis Permits Deliver for Legacy Growers? Jamaica’s new cannabis permits promise traditional ganja farmers a path into the legal market. Whether that path works remains to be seen. <p>The post Can Jamaica’s New Cannabis Permits Deliver for Legacy Growers? first appeared on High Times.</p>

Colombia Wants to Spray Illicit Crops Again. The ’80s Offer a Warning  Colombia is turning back to crop spraying as a weapon in the War on Drugs. But the rise and fall of the Bonanza Marimbera offers a warning: destroying a crop doesn’t necessarily destroy the economy built around it. <p>The post Colombia Wants to Spray Illicit Crops Again. The ’80s Offer a Warning  first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Steering Wheel: How Crop Steering Became Cultivation’s Loudest Conversation Crop steering moved from greenhouse science into everyday grow-room talk. Here's why cultivators are rethinking how they guide plants, and where nutrition fits in. <p>The post The Steering Wheel: How Crop Steering Became Cultivation’s Loudest Conversation first appeared on High Times.</p>

Highdro’s New Video Turns a Vegas Pool Cleaning Into a Smoke Session The Las Vegas rapper's new video follows a pool maintenance worker who gets pulled into a backyard session that keeps escalating, with cameos from DJ Bonics, Grasshoppa, The Bearded Larry and a FaceTime appearance from RAW founder Josh Kesselman. <p>The post Highdro’s New Video Turns a Vegas Pool Cleaning Into a Smoke Session first appeared on High Times.</p>

King Gizzard Built Its Own Festival Instead of Touring. It Starts Friday. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard headline all three nights of their own festival at Meadow Creek in Buena Vista, Colorado, August 14 to 16, with a 24-act bill, a fan-run bootlegger alley and most of the campground already sold out. <p>The post King Gizzard Built Its Own Festival Instead of Touring. It Starts Friday. first appeared on High Times.</p>

What Happened to the Cannabis Goody Bag? Cannabis goody bags used to overflow with free weed. Hannah Eko wonders what their decline says about generosity, community, and cannabis culture. <p>The post What Happened to the Cannabis Goody Bag? first appeared on High Times.</p>