The Last Master Of Rolling Paper: Meet The Woman Whose Hands Worked Over 1 Billion Paper Sheets This article originally appeared in High Times Magazine’s 50th Anniversary Print Issue. Order yours here and get it delivered to your door. The sound of the machines is hypnotic. A constant clatter, a rhythmic dance of gears that seem to breathe. Each turn, each metallic click, is the heartbeat of a fading craft. And at <p>The post The Last Master Of Rolling Paper: Meet The Woman Whose Hands Worked Over 1 Billion Paper Sheets…

The Best Weed Goes Head To Head For $120,000 Today Two undefeated runs collide in the Proper Cup High Rollers finals, where performance decides the winner live. <p>The post The Best Weed Goes Head To Head For $120,000 Today first appeared on High Times.</p>

What 900 Veterans Taught Me About Cannabis, Pain, and the Cost of Staying Alive After helping 900 veterans access cannabis, one advocate reflects on pain, PTSD, access, and why relief shouldn’t depend on money. <p>The post What 900 Veterans Taught Me About Cannabis, Pain, and the Cost of Staying Alive first appeared on High Times.</p>

How The NY Post Found a Boring Cannabis Study and Turned It Into a Scare Story A new review called for better research. The headline turned it into a warning. Here’s what the study actually says. <p>The post How The NY Post Found a Boring Cannabis Study and Turned It Into a Scare Story first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Hard Truth About Washington and Cannabis Reform: Time, Money, and More Time Why urgency, public support, and cultural momentum still aren’t enough to move federal policy. <p>The post The Hard Truth About Washington and Cannabis Reform: Time, Money, and More Time first appeared on High Times.</p>

Heavy Hangs the Head that Wears the Helmet: NFL Players Open Up About Psychedelic Use NFL players speak openly about brain trauma, concussions, and the growing interest in psychedelics as science and culture begin to intersect. <p>The post Heavy Hangs the Head that Wears the Helmet: NFL Players Open Up About Psychedelic Use first appeared on High Times.</p>

Music for Mushrooms Isn’t What You Think It Is A conversation with East Forest about music, psychedelics, and why attention, not escape, might be the real medicine. <p>The post Music for Mushrooms Isn’t What You Think It Is first appeared on High Times.</p>

Big Alcohol’s Weed Panic Isn’t Random. The Data Explains It As cannabis beverages gain ground, study after study shows alcohol consumption dropping. You don’t need a conspiracy to explain the panic. You just need the numbers. <p>The post Big Alcohol’s Weed Panic Isn’t Random. The Data Explains It first appeared on High Times.</p>

Costa Rica’s Election Draws Near: What Are the Candidates’ Positions on Weed? Presidential elections in Costa Rica are scheduled for February 1, 2026, and we’re looking at quite a broad landscape. Amid fragmentation and indecision, Costa Ricans will have to choose from a vast array of candidates. Some of them have publicly stated their positions on cannabis legalization. Since 2022, Law 10.113 has been in effect, regulating <p>The post Costa Rica’s Election Draws Near: What Are the Candidates’ Positions on Weed? first appeared on High Times.</p>

Skyworld Partners With Last Prisoner Project for Cannabis Justice Skyworld, a New York-based cannabis brand rooted in Indigenous tradition, has announced a partnership with the Last Prisoner Project (LPP), a nonprofit focused on freeing people incarcerated due to the War on Drugs and supporting them as they rebuild their lives. The collaboration, originally announced on January 6, 2026, is positioned as a public-facing campaign <p>The post Skyworld Partners With Last Prisoner Project for Cannabis Justice first appeared on High Times.</p>

Hemp’s Death Sentence Gets a Stay of Execution A bipartisan bill would push the federal hemp THC ban to 2028, buying time for farmers, brewers, and lawmakers to replace prohibition with regulation. <p>The post Hemp’s Death Sentence Gets a Stay of Execution first appeared on High Times.</p>

Inside the World’s First Plastic-Free Dispensary Grandma Jazz sets the bar as the world’s first plastic-free dispensary, proving it’s possible to forgo the mountain of waste. <p>The post Inside the World’s First Plastic-Free Dispensary first appeared on High Times.</p>

Teen Dies After Seeking AI Drug Advice: The Risks of Turning to a Chatbot for Comfort After a teen’s overdose, the use of AI for drugs-related questions exposes serious risks, ethical gaps, and the lack of human support. <p>The post Teen Dies After Seeking AI Drug Advice: The Risks of Turning to a Chatbot for Comfort first appeared on High Times.</p>

This Is What A $120,000 Cannabis Bracket Looks Like With $120,000 on the line, the Proper Cup High Rollers semifinals turn reputation, redemption and pressure into the real competition. <p>The post This Is What A $120,000 Cannabis Bracket Looks Like first appeared on High Times.</p>

37% of U.S. Hip-Hop and Rap Videos Show Weed, Study Finds According to research, more than 37% of hip-hop and rap music videos produced in the United States feature cannabis imagery. <p>The post 37% of U.S. Hip-Hop and Rap Videos Show Weed, Study Finds first appeared on High Times.</p>

Germany’s Medical Cannabis ‘Problem’ Is That It Worked. Prices Fell. Prescriptions Exploded Medical cannabis prescriptions jumped 3,300% after reclassification, prices dropped to €5.23 per gram, and the data shows no evidence of misuse. <p>The post Germany’s Medical Cannabis ‘Problem’ Is That It Worked. Prices Fell. Prescriptions Exploded first appeared on High Times.</p>

Legal Weed Didn’t Fix South Africa’s Cannabis Problem Inside South Africa’s cannabis gray zone—activists, private clubs, police chaos, and an export-first model leaving legacy growers behind. <p>The post Legal Weed Didn’t Fix South Africa’s Cannabis Problem first appeared on High Times.</p>

A Dispensary Burned. If This Was a Pharmacy Fire, Nobody Would Be Joking A Colorado dispensary fire was a real emergency. The jokes came later — and they say more about how cannabis is still framed than what actually happened. <p>The post A Dispensary Burned. If This Was a Pharmacy Fire, Nobody Would Be Joking first appeared on High Times.</p>

Libertarians and the Long Road to Cannabis Freedom For over 50 years, the Libertarian Party has pushed for cannabis legalization, challenging the War on Drugs through consistent advocacy and policy reform. <p>The post Libertarians and the Long Road to Cannabis Freedom first appeared on High Times.</p>

Tyson and Ric Flair Say Former Partners Ripped Them Off — Now They’re in Court A federal court filing outlines allegations tied to disputed cannabis branding deals involving the two celebrities. <p>The post Tyson and Ric Flair Say Former Partners Ripped Them Off — Now They’re in Court first appeared on High Times.</p>

From Prison to Pot Shop: Inside Coss Marte’s Con Empire This Lower East Side institution is rebuilding bodies and minds. <p>The post From Prison to Pot Shop: Inside Coss Marte’s Con Empire first appeared on High Times.</p>

What It Was Like Doing Mushrooms With Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir It's been said that Bob Weir's eyes are a vast ocean of wisdom. Perhaps mushrooms are the way in which the legend developed that vast well of Earthly intellect. <p>The post What It Was Like Doing Mushrooms With Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir first appeared on High Times.</p>

The War on Drugs Failed Because It Never Understood Why People Use Drugs From pleasure and connection to harm reduction and policy failure, a look at what decades of drug enforcement got wrong about human behavior. <p>The post The War on Drugs Failed Because It Never Understood Why People Use Drugs first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Government Admits Cannabis Has Medical Value. Now Comes the Fine Print A grounded explainer on cannabis rescheduling, followed by the questions too many celebratory takes are skipping. <p>The post The Government Admits Cannabis Has Medical Value. Now Comes the Fine Print first appeared on High Times.</p>

[Video] Corporate Weed Has a Problem. This Maine Field Might Be the Answer A 15-minute film follows one season of sun-grown cannabis in Maine and a partnership built to survive outside the corporate model. <p>The post [Video] Corporate Weed Has a Problem. This Maine Field Might Be the Answer first appeared on High Times.</p>

ICYMI: Watch the Award-Winning Animated Short Stoned for Christmas Stoned for Christmas, the award-winning animated short, is a love letter to weed, animation, and the people who make the holidays survivable. <p>The post ICYMI: Watch the Award-Winning Animated Short Stoned for Christmas first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Best Cannabis Breeders of 2025, As Voted by the Community A just-for-fun poll yielded a solid lineup of greatness including Bodhi, CSI Humboldt, Capulator, and Archive Seed Bank. <p>The post The Best Cannabis Breeders of 2025, As Voted by the Community first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Drug War’s Old Trick Returns in Venezuela How “narco-terrorism” language turns geopolitics into prosecution. <p>The post The Drug War’s Old Trick Returns in Venezuela first appeared on High Times.</p>

Fuck 12/12: Inside the Supercycle Crew Breaking the Cannabis Flowering Rule A global crew of growers is stretching the day past 24 hours and discovering cannabis doesn’t care about our clocks. <p>The post Fuck 12/12: Inside the Supercycle Crew Breaking the Cannabis Flowering Rule first appeared on High Times.</p>

When Pharma and MAGA World Agree on Weed Rescheduling, Something’s Up From medical groups to MAGA-linked operatives, the push for Schedule III reveals how differently the same policy can be sold. <p>The post When Pharma and MAGA World Agree on Weed Rescheduling, Something’s Up first appeared on High Times.</p>

Finding Calm in Cannabis Content: A Conversation With Ally Train of Cough Creative The mind behind Cough Creative talks creativity, censorship, and building something real in a noisy digital world. <p>The post Finding Calm in Cannabis Content: A Conversation With Ally Train of Cough Creative first appeared on High Times.</p>

Withdrawal, Nightmares & Dreams: What Really Happens When You Stop Smoking Weed Do your dreams get insanely wild when you stop using weed? Don't freak out: it's just temporary, and there's an explanation to that. <p>The post Withdrawal, Nightmares & Dreams: What Really Happens When You Stop Smoking Weed first appeared on High Times.</p>

Trip Your Way to Better Health? Researchers See Medical Potential in Ketamine, Mushrooms and Ibogaine The PhilaDelic’s Fall Forum sets a roadmap for wider use of ibogaine and mushrooms to treat addiction and depression as stigma fades. Leading chemists, psychiatrists, treatment pros, academics and activists gather to widen use of psychedelic drugs.  <p>The post Trip Your Way to Better Health? Researchers See Medical Potential in Ketamine, Mushrooms and Ibogaine first appeared on High Times.</p>

Legal Weed Finally Arrived in Kentucky. It Didn’t Last a Week Kentucky’s first medical cannabis dispensary sold out in just seven days, highlighting strong patient demand and the growing pains of a tightly controlled rollout. <p>The post Legal Weed Finally Arrived in Kentucky. It Didn’t Last a Week first appeared on High Times.</p>

It’s 4:20. Watch ‘Don’t Be A Clown,’ High Times’ Weed-Themed Short Film Dek: A dark, funny cannabis satire from writer/director Dan Levy Dagerman. Think “The Joker meets Reservoir Dogs,” reframed through modern weed culture. <p>The post It’s 4:20. Watch ‘Don’t Be A Clown,’ High Times’ Weed-Themed Short Film first appeared on High Times.</p>

High Times Is Back. Here’s What We Built in 5.5 Months High Times officially turned the lights back on July 16, 2025. We didn’t relaunch anything. We reopened the site and started publishing again. And pretty quickly, it became clear that the thing still worked. When the doors open and the work is real, people show up. Writers. Readers. Artists. Growers. Longtime supporters and people discovering <p>The post High Times Is Back. Here’s What We Built in 5.5 Months first appeared on High Times.</p>

A Powerful Group in Arizona Wants to Kill Weed Stores but Keep Weed Legal and Homegrown Arizona voters approved adult-use cannabis in 2020 by a wide margin, opening the door to a regulated market that now includes more than 100 licensed dispensaries across the state. Five years later, a new ballot initiative is attempting something unusual: keeping marijuana legal while dismantling the legal cannabis industry itself. The proposal, known as the <p>The post A Powerful Group in Arizona Wants to Kill Weed Stores but Keep Weed Legal and Homegrown first appeared…

Bosnia and Herzegovina Legalizes Medical Cannabis—Now What? Bosnia and Herzegovina legalizes medical cannabis after years of debate. But access isn’t immediate. What does this mean? <p>The post Bosnia and Herzegovina Legalizes Medical Cannabis—Now What? first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Year in Weed: 2025’s Biggest Moments From hemp recriminalization to Germany's cannabis boom, explore 2025's biggest cannabis moments — including New York's $1B milestone, Zangbanger's rise, and the shift away from alcohol. <p>The post The Year in Weed: 2025’s Biggest Moments first appeared on High Times.</p>

2025 Was the Year Governments Went to War With Weed Without Saying So Instead of outlawing cannabis outright, lawmakers targeted the culture, the chemistry, and the accessories, creating a strange new era of prohibition by proxy. <p>The post 2025 Was the Year Governments Went to War With Weed Without Saying So first appeared on High Times.</p>

Can I Even Grow? A Guide for the Aspiring Home Cultivator What does it take to grow your own weed? Find out where it's legal, learn about genetics, and how to keep your setup clean and free from pests and pathogens. <p>The post Can I Even Grow? A Guide for the Aspiring Home Cultivator first appeared on High Times.</p>

John Waters’ Holiday Drug Confessions: ‘I’ve Taken Every One’ A High Times great returns with holiday stories, hard-earned perspective, and the sharpest advice in show business, from pot-written movies to LSD at 70 and why “loving everybody” is his idea of a nightmare. <p>The post John Waters’ Holiday Drug Confessions: ‘I’ve Taken Every One’ first appeared on High Times.</p>

Chile at a Crossroads: What Does a Hard-Right Presidency Mean for the Future of Cannabis? Chile enters a new political cycle under President-elect José Antonio Kast. What could a hard-right government mean for cannabis policy, rights, and reform? <p>The post Chile at a Crossroads: What Does a Hard-Right Presidency Mean for the Future of Cannabis? first appeared on High Times.</p>

Ice-T On His Rick And Morty Cameo: ‘They Didn’t Roast Me. Thank God.’ The Law & Order legend explains how the cameo happened, why he feared getting clowned, and what it meant to be animated as a hero. <p>The post Ice-T On His Rick And Morty Cameo: ‘They Didn’t Roast Me. Thank God.’ first appeared on High Times.</p>

You Thought CBD Was for Boomers. College Students Are Using It to Survive School. Nearly half of college students say they’ve tried CBD, often for anxiety, stress and sleep, according to the largest survey of its kind. <p>The post You Thought CBD Was for Boomers. College Students Are Using It to Survive School. first appeared on High Times.</p>

High Times Greats: A Christmas Story – Which Real Meaning? Could Christmas be related to the great mushroom, Amanita muscaria? <p>The post High Times Greats: A Christmas Story – Which Real Meaning? first appeared on High Times.</p>

A Christmas Carol by Truman Capote, as told to Andy Warhol Two pop-culture icons discuss what they want for Christmas in the December, 1978 issue of High Times. <p>The post A Christmas Carol by Truman Capote, as told to Andy Warhol first appeared on High Times.</p>

The U.S. Military Is Funding MDMA-Assisted Therapy Research for PTSD (For Real) A Department of Defense (DoD)-funded clinical trial will study MDMA-assisted therapy paired with Massed Prolonged Exposure for PTSD in active-duty service members. <p>The post The U.S. Military Is Funding MDMA-Assisted Therapy Research for PTSD (For Real) first appeared on High Times.</p>

Even the Feds Say Teen Marijuana Use Is Declining Even as adult legalization expands. <p>The post Even the Feds Say Teen Marijuana Use Is Declining first appeared on High Times.</p>

How the Cannabis Lobby Finally Got Trump to Budge A year of pressure, polling, persistence and uncomfortable progress. <p>The post How the Cannabis Lobby Finally Got Trump to Budge first appeared on High Times.</p>

Trump Wants Marijuana Rescheduling Done Fast — Possibly by January An executive order urges the Justice Department to move quickly, though a January deadline has not been publicly confirmed. <p>The post Trump Wants Marijuana Rescheduling Done Fast — Possibly by January first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Cannabis Justice Crisis Still Haunting 2025: Parker Coleman’s 60-Year Sentence Is a National Shame As legalization expands and profits soar, a nonviolent cannabis conviction still keeps Parker Coleman behind bars for decades. <p>The post The Cannabis Justice Crisis Still Haunting 2025: Parker Coleman’s 60-Year Sentence Is a National Shame first appeared on High Times.</p>

Adventures with Santa: Puff, Puff, Pass with Josh Kesselman Santa pays a Christmas Eve visit to RAW founder and High Times publisher Josh Kesselman for plant medicine, animal blessings, and desert magic. <p>The post Adventures with Santa: Puff, Puff, Pass with Josh Kesselman first appeared on High Times.</p>

Wall Street Wants Stock Listings. Cannabis Wants Justice. Rescheduling cleans up taxes and headlines. It doesn’t free the plant, end prohibition, or fix the harm cannabis laws still cause. If your first question was “Can we uplist now?” you’re missing the point. <p>The post Wall Street Wants Stock Listings. Cannabis Wants Justice. first appeared on High Times.</p>

Operation Green Merchant: The Morning the Drug War Kissed Its Own Reflection In 1989, the DEA raided 46 states in a blitz called Operation Green Merchant. Thirty-five years later, its shadow still hangs over legal cannabis. <p>The post Operation Green Merchant: The Morning the Drug War Kissed Its Own Reflection first appeared on High Times.</p>

People Are Getting Their AI High: Paying to ‘Alter’ Chatbot’s Consciousness A new wave of code-based add-ons users are purchasing to modify their chatbots’ behavior, making them respond as if they were high on drugs. <p>The post People Are Getting Their AI High: Paying to ‘Alter’ Chatbot’s Consciousness first appeared on High Times.</p>

Cannabis Rescheduling: What the Executive Order Doesn’t Do — and Who It Actually Helps Despite the headlines, rescheduling cannabis would not deliver immediate tax relief, banking access, or interstate commerce for state-licensed operators. <p>The post Cannabis Rescheduling: What the Executive Order Doesn’t Do — and Who It Actually Helps first appeared on High Times.</p>

Rescheduling Is A Bread Sandwich: Same Law, Better PR A federal number changed. Prohibition did not. This is a nothing burger. <p>The post Rescheduling Is A Bread Sandwich: Same Law, Better PR first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Clock Saved Me: A Reckoning with Juvenile Injustice A powerful true story of juvenile probation, cannabis criminalization, and the broken system that failed a kid still trying to survive. <p>The post The Clock Saved Me: A Reckoning with Juvenile Injustice first appeared on High Times.</p>

Timothée Chalamet Just Dropped a Weed Rap and the Internet Lost Its Mind The actor appears on EsDeeKid’s “4 Raws Remix,” poking fun at months of internet theories that the masked UK rapper and Chalamet were secretly the same person. <p>The post Timothée Chalamet Just Dropped a Weed Rap and the Internet Lost Its Mind first appeared on High Times.</p>