New Study Reports Up to 99% Lower Harmful Byproducts With Vaporization vs Smoking A PAX-authored study compares vaporized cannabis to joint smoke, finding lower levels of certain byproducts under lab conditions. <p>The post New Study Reports Up to 99% Lower Harmful Byproducts With Vaporization vs Smoking first appeared on High Times.</p>

How Free Do You Actually Feel as a Cannabis Consumer? NORML Wants to Know NORML's 2026 Cannabis Freedom Survey asks how free consumers actually feel, not just what the law says. Takes one minute. Results matter. <p>The post How Free Do You Actually Feel as a Cannabis Consumer? NORML Wants to Know first appeared on High Times.</p>

She Paid $150,000 for a Florida Cannabis License and Got Nothing. Then She Found Another Way In. GÜD Essence CEO Jasmine Johnson has spent nearly a decade navigating Florida's MMTC licensing system as a Black woman entrepreneur without institutional backing. In an exclusive High Times interview, she breaks down what equity in Florida cannabis actually looks like in practice, and what the state would need to change to make it real. <p>The post She Paid $150,000 for a Florida Cannabis License and Got Nothing. Then She Found Another Way In. first…

High Times Cannabis Cup Hits Atlantic City, NJ: Beanie Sigel, Smoke DZA and New Jersey’s Best Weed All on One Stage The first-ever New Jersey Cannabis Cup comes to Atlantic City's Steel Pier on May 1. Smoke DZA hosts. Beanie Sigel performs. Judging closes April 24. <p>The post High Times Cannabis Cup Hits Atlantic City, NJ: Beanie Sigel, Smoke DZA and New Jersey’s Best Weed All on One Stage first appeared on High Times.</p>

From Royal Balls to Weed Walls: Massive Grow Found in Mansion Linked to King Charles III Police uncovered a massive cannabis grow inside a historic mansion tied to King Charles III of Britain, reviving yet another strange royal connection to weed. <p>The post From Royal Balls to Weed Walls: Massive Grow Found in Mansion Linked to King Charles III first appeared on High Times.</p>

Argentina’s Cannabis Paradox: Access First, Market Later Argentina has built a patient-first cannabis framework with real access, but the commercial and regulatory pieces still have not fully aligned into a cohesive market. <p>The post Argentina’s Cannabis Paradox: Access First, Market Later first appeared on High Times.</p>

Texas Hemp Flower Is Back On Shelves, For Now A Travis County judge temporarily blocked Texas from enforcing new hemp rules that had effectively pushed smokable THCA flower and pre-rolls off shelves, handing the industry a short-term win in one of the country’s most chaotic hemp markets. <p>The post Texas Hemp Flower Is Back On Shelves, For Now first appeared on High Times.</p>

Georgia’s Forgotten Stoner Food: Inside the Lost Cannabis Cuisine of the Caucasus In the mountains of Georgia, a centuries-old cannabis cuisine vanished under Soviet rule. What remains is a fading cultural memory. <p>The post Georgia’s Forgotten Stoner Food: Inside the Lost Cannabis Cuisine of the Caucasus first appeared on High Times.</p>

Clean Label Cannabis: Returning to the Plant That Started It All Clean label cannabis is pushing back on distillates, isolates, and overprocessing—bringing the focus back to the plant itself. <p>The post Clean Label Cannabis: Returning to the Plant That Started It All first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Real Cost of Cannabis Prohibition Cannabis prohibition impacts patients, safety, and jobs. Here’s how outdated policy continues to affect American families. <p>The post The Real Cost of Cannabis Prohibition first appeared on High Times.</p>

The NBA Put Al Harrington Through 12 Surgeries. Cannabis Helped Him Cope. Science Made Him Look Closer. After years of surgeries, rehab and a recovery machine built for return-to-play, the former NBA forward stopped asking whether cannabis could help and started asking harder questions about how it actually worked. <p>The post The NBA Put Al Harrington Through 12 Surgeries. Cannabis Helped Him Cope. Science Made Him Look Closer. first appeared on High Times.</p>

Everything You Know About CBD Is Probably Wrong New interpretations of global drug treaties are reshaping CBD policy, hemp regulation, and medical cannabis access worldwide. <p>The post Everything You Know About CBD Is Probably Wrong first appeared on High Times.</p>

B-Real and Xzibit on Brick Weed, Backwoods and Why They Still ‘Rap Circles’ Around Younger Rappers 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 <p>The post B-Real and Xzibit on Brick Weed, Backwoods and Why They Still ‘Rap Circles’ Around Younger Rappers first appeared…

The THC Arms Race Is Starting To Look Stupid, New Harris Poll Finds A new Harris Poll suggests cannabis consumers are questioning the old potency-first sales pitch, with many saying they care more about clean, trustworthy weed than raw THC numbers. <p>The post The THC Arms Race Is Starting To Look Stupid, New Harris Poll Finds first appeared on High Times.</p>

Psychedelics at the Heart of Ancient Greece: Unveiling the Eleusinian Mysteries Did ancient Greece use psychedelics? New research sheds light on the Eleusinian Mysteries and their possible psychoactive rituals. <p>The post Psychedelics at the Heart of Ancient Greece: Unveiling the Eleusinian Mysteries first appeared on High Times.</p>

Exclusive: YG Marley Launches Young Gong Cannabis Brand YG Marley is entering cannabis as co-founder and brand ambassador of Young Gong, a new venture with Glenmere Farms set to launch April 19 in New York. <p>The post Exclusive: YG Marley Launches Young Gong Cannabis Brand first appeared on High Times.</p>

Who Is the Greatest Joint Roller on Earth? RAW Wants to Know. There’s Cash on the Line RAW’s World Rolling Championship 2026 is now open, with a $2,000 first prize and a nationwide search for the weirdest, sharpest and most ambitious rolling creations in the game. <p>The post Who Is the Greatest Joint Roller on Earth? RAW Wants to Know. There’s Cash on the Line first appeared on High Times.</p>

Snoop Just Brought Death Row Seeds To U.S. Growers Snoop has put his name on plenty of weed. This one hits differently. Death Row’s new Sensi Seeds collaboration is coming to the U.S. with five strains aimed not at shoppers staring at jars, but growers ready to run them. <p>The post Snoop Just Brought Death Row Seeds To U.S. Growers first appeared on High Times.</p>

Cannabis Cup Winner Craig Palmer Took 6 Point From Illicit to Legal in New York Legacy grower Craig Palmer built Sixpoint Cannabis from decades in the underground to a standout brand in New York’s legal market. <p>The post Cannabis Cup Winner Craig Palmer Took 6 Point From Illicit to Legal in New York first appeared on High Times.</p>

How $10 Million Meant for Florida Taxpayers Ended Up in the Anti-Marijuana War A $10 million payment tied to a Florida Medicaid settlement moved through the Hope Florida Foundation, into two anti-drug nonprofits, and then into a political committee fighting marijuana legalization. Public filings also show a major funding surge at SAM Action during the same period. The full picture remains incomplete, but the overlap, timing, and money <p>The post How $10 Million Meant for Florida Taxpayers Ended Up in the Anti-Marijuana War first appeared on High Times.</p>

It’s No Joke: The Oakland ‘Blazers’ Are About to Light Up the East Bay Fan response to the Ballers' April Fools' Day gag convinced the team to go all-in on an alt-identity that's a nod to the city's connection to cannabis culture. <p>The post It’s No Joke: The Oakland ‘Blazers’ Are About to Light Up the East Bay first appeared on High Times.</p>

New Book Explores Tripping, Microdosing And The Expanding World Of Psychedelics DoubleBlind is taking seven years of psychedelic journalism, workshops and community-building and turning it into a hardcover guide aimed at both curious newcomers and seasoned psychonauts. The book arrives April 14. <p>The post New Book Explores Tripping, Microdosing And The Expanding World Of Psychedelics first appeared on High Times.</p>

Jimmy Kimmel Made a Weed Doc for Hulu. Of Course High Times Is In It Jimmy Kimmel’s new Hulu series for 4/20 includes a documentary short on High Times, alongside films on Harold & Kumar, glass art and the cult oddity Ganjasaurus Rex. <p>The post Jimmy Kimmel Made a Weed Doc for Hulu. Of Course High Times Is In It first appeared on High Times.</p>

Scarlett Johansson On Her First Concert Ever (It Was Cypress Hill And She Was Super High) Scarlett Johansson tells Stephen Colbert she got high at her first Cypress Hill concert, recalling a massive blunt and her early experiences with weed. <p>The post Scarlett Johansson On Her First Concert Ever (It Was Cypress Hill And She Was Super High) first appeared on High Times.</p>

Inside the DEA’s Crisis of Legitimacy A long trail of corruption cases, oversight failures, and drug-war contradictions has left the DEA with a credibility problem, even as it continues to influence how cannabis is scheduled, researched, and regulated in the United States. <p>The post Inside the DEA’s Crisis of Legitimacy first appeared on High Times.</p>

An Edibles Rotation Worth Keeping: Rare Cannabinoid Company Review Testing Rare Cannabinoid Company’s mood mints, gummies, and sleep formulas—what actually makes the rotation. <p>The post An Edibles Rotation Worth Keeping: Rare Cannabinoid Company Review first appeared on High Times.</p>

Can Cannabis Save Us From the Antibiotic Apocalypse? As antibiotic resistance accelerates, researchers are exploring cannabinoids for antimicrobial potential. Could cannabis help slow a growing global crisis? <p>The post Can Cannabis Save Us From the Antibiotic Apocalypse? first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Keeper of Thai Weed On Koh Tao, KD has spent decades preserving landrace genetics, sharing seeds across generations, and treating cannabis less like a product than a living inheritance. <p>The post The Keeper of Thai Weed first appeared on High Times.</p>

Weed’s Most Detail-Obsessed Smokers Just Linked Up With High Times Proper Doinks, the cannabis competition platform behind the Proper Smoke League and High Rollers bracket, is teaming up with High Times for a series of collaborations including future Cannabis Cup activations. <p>The post Weed’s Most Detail-Obsessed Smokers Just Linked Up With High Times first appeared on High Times.</p>

Big Finance Found A New Way To Go After Cannabis: By Policing Speech A new book from civil liberties advocate Rainey Reitman digs into “financial censorship,” and one of its sharpest chapters lands right in cannabis, where debanking, stigma and corporate overreach have shaped far more than balance sheets. <p>The post Big Finance Found A New Way To Go After Cannabis: By Policing Speech first appeared on High Times.</p>

50 Years After “Legalize It,” the Fight Isn’t Over Fifty years after Peter Tosh’s “Legalize It,” his daughter Niambe McIntosh carries the fight forward through advocacy, reform, and personal loss. <p>The post 50 Years After “Legalize It,” the Fight Isn’t Over first appeared on High Times.</p>

Trump Fired Pam Bondi. What Changes For Marijuana Rescheduling? Pam Bondi is out, Todd Blanche is in, and the immediate question for cannabis is whether that changes the fate of marijuana rescheduling. The early answer appears to be no, or at least not much. The harder question is the one High Times has been asking all along: if Schedule III arrives, who actually benefits? <p>The post Trump Fired Pam Bondi. What Changes For Marijuana Rescheduling? first appeared on High Times.</p>

Pizza Movie Takes the Old Stoner Comedy Blueprint and Lets It Hallucinate A pizza run, a stash of mystery drugs and a pair of college freshmen are enough to launch Pizza Movie into full freakout mode, but what makes it stick is how smartly it mutates the old stoner-comedy formula for a faster, stranger generation. <p>The post Pizza Movie Takes the Old Stoner Comedy Blueprint and Lets It Hallucinate first appeared on High Times.</p>

A $160K Bracket, Live Finals and Glass Heat: Proper Smoke Network Will Host a Connoisseur Event on Apr. 25 The High Rollers Live Show brings Proper Doinks off the screen and into a six-hour event built around competition, connoisseurship and people who actually care how the joint smokes. <p>The post A $160K Bracket, Live Finals and Glass Heat: Proper Smoke Network Will Host a Connoisseur Event on Apr. 25 first appeared on High Times.</p>

The UK’s ‘Cannabis Martyr’ Keeps Opening Weed Cafes. Britain Keeps Locking Him Up. Gary Youds has spent nearly 20 years opening cannabis cafes in Liverpool, getting raided, getting jailed, and refusing to stop. <p>The post The UK’s ‘Cannabis Martyr’ Keeps Opening Weed Cafes. Britain Keeps Locking Him Up. first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Feds Just Started Reimbursing Hemp CBD And THC Products. Anti-Weed Groups Immediately Sued A new federal program that took effect April 1 lets certain participating care models furnish up to $500 a year in eligible hemp-derived CBD and low-THC products for approved patients. It also triggered an immediate lawsuit from SAM and other anti-marijuana groups trying to shut it down. <p>The post The Feds Just Started Reimbursing Hemp CBD And THC Products. Anti-Weed Groups Immediately Sued first appeared on High Times.</p>

Uruguay Slashes Illicit Cannabis Market to 6.7%—But Faces New Challenges More than a decade after making history as the first country to legalize adult-use cannabis, Uruguay has entered a new phase: the system works, but it’s no longer enough. <p>The post Uruguay Slashes Illicit Cannabis Market to 6.7%—But Faces New Challenges first appeared on High Times.</p>

Why Ganja Should Be Re-Legalized in India Ed Rosenthal traces how international pressure criminalized a plant long woven into Indian life, and why he believes it is time to bring ganja back under regulation. <p>The post Why Ganja Should Be Re-Legalized in India first appeared on High Times.</p>

This Cult Book Mixed Race, Weed and American Chaos Long Before the Culture Caught Up. Now It’s Back Originally published in 2003, Ghetto Celebrity: Searching for My Father in Me grew out of a Tupac-triggered LA Weekly assignment, passed through Dave Eggers’ literary orbit, and arrived years before cannabis memoirs or unruly Black autobiographical writing had much room in the mainstream. Now Donnell Alexander is giving the book a second life, starting with a very L.A. celebration in chef Wendy Zeng’s garden. <p>The post This Cult Book Mixed Race, Weed and…

A Single Cannabis Offense No Longer Disqualifies You From Joining the Army: Why Now? The U.S. Army announced that, starting April 20, 2026 individuals with a single conviction for cannabis possession or drug paraphernalia will be able to enlist without a waiver. <p>The post A Single Cannabis Offense No Longer Disqualifies You From Joining the Army: Why Now? first appeared on High Times.</p>

Iceland Is Too Smart for Lazy Cannabis Panic: Inside the Hemp4Future Conference Policy experts and global researchers break down the data, the myths and the next steps for a country on the edge of reform. <p>The post Iceland Is Too Smart for Lazy Cannabis Panic: Inside the Hemp4Future Conference first appeared on High Times.</p>

Bam Margera: ‘Weed Does Not Lead To Other Drugs. It Leads To Fucking Carpentry.’ In an exclusive High Times interview, the Jackass icon and his wife Dannii Marie talk recovery, sleep, bad trips, psychedelic ceremonies and why their new brand feels less like a launch and more like a life. <p>The post Bam Margera: ‘Weed Does Not Lead To Other Drugs. It Leads To Fucking Carpentry.’ first appeared on High Times.</p>

Newly-Formed Latino Cannabis Alliance Wants Power, Not Symbolism Launching March 31, the new national coalition says Latino communities have spent years shaping cannabis reform while being sidelined in the rooms where policy, capital and power move. Its leaders say the mission is bigger than visibility: build organized influence at the intersection of cannabis, immigration and drug policy. <p>The post Newly-Formed Latino Cannabis Alliance Wants Power, Not Symbolism first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Vape I Reach For Daily: Universal Baller Review After testing 500+ vaporizers, one stands above the rest. A deep look at the Universal Baller and why it’s my daily driver. <p>The post The Vape I Reach For Daily: Universal Baller Review first appeared on High Times.</p>

Meet Hypno Seeds: Art, Genetics, and a New Cannabis Wave Hypno Seeds blends cannabis genetics, global art, and modern culture—positioning itself at the intersection of creativity and cultivation. <p>The post Meet Hypno Seeds: Art, Genetics, and a New Cannabis Wave first appeared on High Times.</p>

‘Cannabis Is an Act of Rebellion’: Latin Superstar Farruko on Weed, Healing and Fighting the System The Puerto Rican hitmaker says cannabis is bigger than business, framing the plant as medicine, resistance, and a way to challenge the machine that taught people to fear it. <p>The post ‘Cannabis Is an Act of Rebellion’: Latin Superstar Farruko on Weed, Healing and Fighting the System first appeared on High Times.</p>

Not Every Weed Vaper Wants A Battery Vapman and Lotus are betting there’s still room for flame, ritual, and manual control in a category dominated by chargers and buttons. <p>The post Not Every Weed Vaper Wants A Battery first appeared on High Times.</p>

Are Social Media Platforms Designed to Be Addictive? Courts Say ‘Yes’ and Order Meta and YouTube to Pay Millions Since 2010, data show a steady rise in suicide rates and anxiety among young people.It’s hard to ignore that this timeline aligns closely with the social media boom, especially the emergence of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg created the Facebook in 2004, likely without anticipating the massive popularity it would achieve in the years to come, or <p>The post Are Social Media Platforms Designed to Be Addictive? Courts Say ‘Yes’ and Order Meta and…

Trippin’ With The Ganja Traveler: Trinity County, the Emerald Triangle’s Best-Kept Secret The first installment of a new High Times x Beard Bros x Ganja Traveler series heads to Trinity County, the overlooked edge of the Emerald Triangle where cannabis still feels rooted in land, culture, and connoisseur craft. <p>The post Trippin’ With The Ganja Traveler: Trinity County, the Emerald Triangle’s Best-Kept Secret first appeared on High Times.</p>

Cannabis Has Never Respected My Emotional Boundaries, and Honestly, Thank God Cannabis doesn’t knock. It opens doors, loosens guards, and drags feelings into the light—whether you asked for it or not. <p>The post Cannabis Has Never Respected My Emotional Boundaries, and Honestly, Thank God first appeared on High Times.</p>

[Watch] High Times’ New Travel Series Goes From Mallorca’s Underground To Portugal’s Cannabis Boom 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. <p>The post [Watch] High Times’ New Travel Series Goes From Mallorca’s Underground To Portugal’s Cannabis Boom first appeared on High Times.</p>

A Psychedelic Jewish Experience Artist Steve Marcus fuses Jewish identity with cannabis and psychedelics in Psychedelicatessen, a bold exhibition redefining cultural boundaries. <p>The post A Psychedelic Jewish Experience first appeared on High Times.</p>

The War On Texas Cannabis Just Got Its Own High Times Docuseries: Watch It Here Directed by JT Barnett, the new High Times series Texas Cannabis Chronicles opens inside one of the fastest-moving and most politically contested cannabis markets in America, where farmers, veterans, patients and small operators are bracing for a crackdown they say could wipe out an entire industry. <p>The post The War On Texas Cannabis Just Got Its Own High Times Docuseries: Watch It Here first appeared on High Times.</p>

Colorado Tried To Ban Intoxicating Hemp. It Still Made Its Way Into Legal Weed A new ProPublica investigation found that Colorado banned chemically converted intoxicating hemp on paper, but weak testing rules, enforcement gaps and industry carve-outs helped questionable products keep reaching consumers through the country’s oldest legal marijuana market. <p>The post Colorado Tried To Ban Intoxicating Hemp. It Still Made Its Way Into Legal Weed first appeared on High Times.</p>

High Times’ New Cannabis Docuseries Is Following The World Cup Into The Streets A new series, Kicking Back, aims to explore the 2026 World Cup host cities through community, cannabis and the people who make both cultures matter. <p>The post High Times’ New Cannabis Docuseries Is Following The World Cup Into The Streets first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Last Garden: Maine’s Medical Cannabis Program Under Siege Maine built one of the most vibrant, patient-driven medical cannabis markets in America. Now a contamination panic, a powerful tracking company and a regulatory crackdown threaten to squeeze it into something else entirely. <p>The post The Last Garden: Maine’s Medical Cannabis Program Under Siege first appeared on High Times.</p>

Big Alcohol’s Push to Save Hemp THC Drinks Comes With a Catch As a federal ban nears, alcohol industry power players are pushing to keep hemp THC beverages alive by bringing them under their own regulatory system. <p>The post Big Alcohol’s Push to Save Hemp THC Drinks Comes With a Catch first appeared on High Times.</p>

Before the Jury Sided With Afroman, the Crowd Already Had On a run of 2025 California dates, Afroman was already turning “Lemon Pound Cake,” weed-leaf guitar theatrics, and full-contact fan energy into something bigger than a nostalgia act. Afroman’s court win may have pushed him back into the headlines, but the road was already telling part of that story. Before a jury sided with the <p>The post Before the Jury Sided With Afroman, the Crowd Already Had first appeared on High Times.</p>

Legal Weed May Bounce Back In 2026. Small Operators Might Not Whitney Economics projects legal cannabis sales will resume growing in 2026 after a rough 2025. But falling prices, weaker state performance and a more mature market raise a harder question for consumers and small operators alike: what kind of industry is this growth actually building? <p>The post Legal Weed May Bounce Back In 2026. Small Operators Might Not first appeared on High Times.</p>

He May Be the Only American Sent to Prison for the Pot Tax In this first-person commentary, Ryan Richmond argues that after marijuana charges failed, federal authorities turned to tax law—specifically Section 280E—to win the conviction that sent him to prison. <p>The post He May Be the Only American Sent to Prison for the Pot Tax first appeared on High Times.</p>