Thailand Says Weed Is Medical-Only Now. I Bought Four Joints Without a Prescription. Thailand's July 2026 Cannabis and Hemp Act permanently banned recreational consumption and pushed every shop into a medical-only regime with doctors on site. Jeremy Berke went looking for that protocol in Bangkok and found no prescription, no questions, and four joints for about 500 baht. <p>The post Thailand Says Weed Is Medical-Only Now. I Bought Four Joints Without a Prescription. first appeared on High Times.</p>

Stoners Warned Us About Flock Cameras. Turns Out It Wasn’t Paranoia. A criminal complaint in Wisconsin describes Michigan as a "known source State for marijuana, as it is legal there." A Michigan dispensary was ordered to point a police camera at its own parking lot. And Roseville, California's own analysis found Flock misread the plate in 71% of the alerts it sent officers. The people who warned about this weren't being paranoid. They were remembering. <p>The post Stoners Warned Us About Flock Cameras. Turns Out It Wasn’t Paranoia. first appeared on…

Hemp Just Got 29 More Days Before the Ban. The White House Has Already Promised There Won’t Be Another Delay. A 2018 loophole built a multibillion-dollar industry. Congress moved to close it last year. Now the Senate has bought hemp 29 more days, eleven Democrats voted against the reprieve, Rand Paul voted for it, and the White House has already told senators not to ask again. <p>The post Hemp Just Got 29 More Days Before the Ban. The White House Has Already Promised There Won’t Be Another Delay. first appeared on…

New York to Allow Weed Sales at Farmers Markets, Giving Small Growers a Fighting Chance New York is expanding Cannabis Showcase Events, allowing licensed microbusinesses to reach consumers at farmers’ markets while keeping sales under strict state regulations. <p>The post New York to Allow Weed Sales at Farmers Markets, Giving Small Growers a Fighting Chance first appeared on High Times.</p>

Snoop Dogg’s Father Can Get Almost Any Weed He Wants. He Still Can’t Find Panama Red. Vernell Varnado bought his first weed in a red-topped matchbox in 1966. Sixty years later, Snoop Dogg's father walks into legal dispensaries in Arizona and still can't find what he's looking for. On Vietnam, the Post Office, backyard grows and the strains that don't exist anymore. <p>The post Snoop Dogg’s Father Can Get Almost Any Weed He Wants. He Still Can’t Find Panama Red. first appeared on High Times.</p>

Opinion: Cannabis Should Be Mandatory. The ‘Normie’ World Needs a Joint More Than Anyone. In Cheech & Chong's Last Movie, the duo lands a line the theater takes as a punchline: cannabis should be mandatory. Then you read the news. The "normie" world running the planet is a machine of stress, ego and endless acceleration, and the real danger may not be getting high but staying exactly as sober as the people currently steering. <p>The post Opinion: Cannabis Should Be Mandatory. The ‘Normie’ World Needs a Joint More Than Anyone. first…

Stop Spraying and Hoping. Your Pests Already Outsmarted You: Inside the Everswarm Fungal pathogens account for more than 70% of reported disease in U.S. cannabis, the corn earworm has evolved past insecticides, Bt and biocontrols alike, and powdery mildew has been adapting to plants for 100 million years. IPM specialist Matthew Gates calls the answer the Everswarm: stop treating pests as static enemies and build a rotating, holistic defense that expects them to adapt. Jorge Cervantes lays out the science, the 2026 threat map and the playbook. <p>The post Stop Spraying…

The Convenience Revolution Has Finally Reached Cannabis Food, groceries, and prescriptions all arrive at the door. Cannabis and THC gummies are finally catching up. Here's how delivery and direct shipping are reshaping how Americans buy THC. <p>The post The Convenience Revolution Has Finally Reached Cannabis first appeared on High Times.</p>

Cannabis in Germany: Club Licenses Stall While Medical Access Shrinks Germany has received nearly 900 applications for cannabis cultivation associations, but only just over half have been approved as clubs struggle with licensing, location rules, financial risk, and inconsistent enforcement. At the same time, medical cannabis patients face new reimbursement restrictions that could force tens of thousands to pay out of pocket, switch treatments, or <p>The post Cannabis in Germany: Club Licenses Stall While Medical Access Shrinks first appeared on High Times.</p>

So Will the Hemp Ban Be Delayed or Not? Tensions Rise Between the GOP and the White House A Senate stopgap funding bill would delay the federal prohibition on most hemp-derived THC products until December 11, but Republican senators Ted Budd and Pete Ricketts are trying to block the reprieve. The White House is urging GOP lawmakers to accept the short delay, warning that the dispute could stall the broader spending bill and <p>The post So Will the Hemp Ban Be Delayed or Not? Tensions Rise Between the GOP and the…

Rick Ross Doesn’t Want Dispensary Weed Rick Ross lights up for High Times and talks control, the black market, dispensary weed he can't stand, turning 50, and why he never sold his cannabis life like a gimmick. "We want the best dope on the planet." <p>The post Rick Ross Doesn’t Want Dispensary Weed first appeared on High Times.</p>

One Plant, Seven Perspectives: The Art From Our 50th Anniversary Print Issue Liam Wesley Goodman drew fifty years of cannabis culture into one colored-pencil mural, 36 faces in 16 days. Around it, five photographers and illustrators from LA to Uruguay to Italy show the plant the way only High Times sees it. <p>The post One Plant, Seven Perspectives: The Art From Our 50th Anniversary Print Issue first appeared on High Times.</p>

They Were Arrested for Cannabis. Now California Gives Activists Medals and Home Growers Golden Bears. At the 2026 California Cannabis Awards, Dale Gieringer asked how many people in the room had been arrested for medical marijuana. Hands went up. Then came the medals. Inside a night that closed a thirty-year loop, plus the full Golden Bear list and the country's first state-sanctioned home grow champion. <p>The post They Were Arrested for Cannabis. Now California Gives Activists Medals and Home Growers Golden Bears. first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Hemp Ban Could Slip a Month. Read the Fine Print Before You Celebrate. Senate leaders released a funding bill that would push most of the federal hemp deadline to December 11. Cannabinoids the plant cannot make would still lose federal hemp status on November 12, both chambers have to agree on identical text and state restrictions move on their own clocks. <p>The post The Hemp Ban Could Slip a Month. Read the Fine Print Before You Celebrate. first appeared on High Times.</p>

Congress Wants To Ban The Drink That Helped Rosario Dawson’s Dad Through Chemo. She’s Not Having It. Rosario Dawson's father took some of his cancer medications off the pile, and a low-dose THC drink was one of the things he used to manage how he felt. Now she's fighting a change in federal law that would clear most of those drinks from hemp shelves this November, and making the case that the mildest product in cannabis reached the people who needed it most. <p>The post Congress Wants To Ban The Drink…

‘Super Troopers 3’ Was Written By Stoners. Director Jay Chandrasekhar Wants You To Watch It Like One. Jay Chandrasekhar sat down, smoked up and got surprisingly candid about legal weed, stoner movies, and why a good R-rated comedy might be exactly what the country needs right now. <p>The post ‘Super Troopers 3’ Was Written By Stoners. Director Jay Chandrasekhar Wants You To Watch It Like One. first appeared on High Times.</p>

Good Times, Less Waste: Can Cannabis Clean Up the Vape Problem? Vape hardware is one of the cannabis industry's fastest-growing waste stream. Fernway's take-back program is one attempt at an answer. <p>The post Good Times, Less Waste: Can Cannabis Clean Up the Vape Problem? first appeared on High Times.</p>

Mike Jones Can’t Smoke With Unmotivated People The "Still Tippin'" legend on his health journey, why California still wins, brushing his teeth before during and after, and the one thing that can ruin a smoke session: somebody who ain't motivated. <p>The post Mike Jones Can’t Smoke With Unmotivated People first appeared on High Times.</p>

‘This Is My Father’s Song’: Ziggy Marley on Grief, Bob, and His Fear of Corporate Weed The eldest Marley's first solo album since 2020 opens a door he'd kept shut: a song written directly to Bob. Ziggy talks grief, the health he guards at 57, the science of 432 Hz and why the corporatization of cannabis worries him the way industrial food does. <p>The post ‘This Is My Father’s Song’: Ziggy Marley on Grief, Bob, and His Fear of Corporate Weed first appeared on High Times.</p>

Daily Cannabis Use in the US Now Outpaces Alcohol as Teen Use Declines  Daily cannabis use in the United States now exceeds daily alcohol consumption, according to new federal data. At the same time, teen cannabis use has continued to decline, challenging long-standing claims that legalization would lead to higher use among minors. <p>The post Daily Cannabis Use in the US Now Outpaces Alcohol as Teen Use Declines  first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Lazy Stoner Is Dead. Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie Is the Eulogy. The lazy stoner is dead. In his place stands the marathon runner with the minimalist vape and the CBD recovery gel. Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie, now streaming, is the last bastion of the countercultural original. The stereotype of the lazy, good-for-nothing stoner, the one who sat glued to the couch staring into space and <p>The post The Lazy Stoner Is Dead. Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie Is the Eulogy. first appeared on High Times.</p>

BYOB Is Dead. Bring Your Own Buzz. Low-dose cannabis drinks and Levia Drops are giving BYOB a new meaning by letting adults choose their beverage, serving, and kind of buzz. <p>The post BYOB Is Dead. Bring Your Own Buzz. first appeared on High Times.</p>

B-Real and Rachel Wolfson Just Dropped Hemp THC. Cann Dropped the THC. B-Real took INSANE national with a hemp gummy. Rachel Wolfson launched Lobos. Cann released its first zero-THC drinks and got behind a bill that would rewrite the rule entirely. Three bets, one deadline. <p>The post B-Real and Rachel Wolfson Just Dropped Hemp THC. Cann Dropped the THC. first appeared on High Times.</p>

Everything We Know About Snoop Dogg’s Upcoming Biopic Snoop Dogg’s life is coming to the big screen in an R-rated Universal biopic starring Jonathan Daviss and directed by Craig Brewer, with a theatrical release set for August 6, 2027. The film is expected to explore his evolution from a Long Beach rapper to a global entertainer, entrepreneur, and cannabis icon, although the exact <p>The post Everything We Know About Snoop Dogg’s Upcoming Biopic first appeared on High Times.</p>

Athletes Use Cannabis in Silence: What This NFL-Backed Study Revealed Professional and elite athletes in contact sports described using cannabis for pain, sleep, recovery, anxiety, and other reasons while often relying on teammates, online research, and trial and error instead of trusted medical guidance. Even as sports leagues relax their policies, fear of judgment, punishment, and career consequences continues to keep cannabis use largely out <p>The post Athletes Use Cannabis in Silence: What This NFL-Backed Study Revealed first appeared on High Times.</p>

Cannabis and Cancer: What We Know, What We Suspect, and What Nobody Can Prove Yet Cancer patients are using cannabis faster than physicians can tell them whether it works. A look at what the trials actually show on nausea, pain and tumors, where the cure story came from, and the study still running that could finally answer the question. <p>The post Cannabis and Cancer: What We Know, What We Suspect, and What Nobody Can Prove Yet first appeared on High Times.</p>

Ed Rosenthal: Nepal’s Cannabis Laws Are ‘an Insult to Shiva.’ Nixon’s War on Drugs Forced Them. On the night of Maha Shivaratri, cannabis smoke rises over Pashupatinath as it has for centuries. Nepal legally sold hashish until 1973, when Washington leaned on Kathmandu and the shops closed. Activist Hemant Shahi and Ed Rosenthal on the fight to give the plant back to the god it belongs to. <p>The post Ed Rosenthal: Nepal’s Cannabis Laws Are ‘an Insult to Shiva.’ Nixon’s War on Drugs Forced Them. first appeared on High Times.</p>

Stop Treating CalMag Like an Emergency Fix Many growers treat CalMag as a deficiency fix. In soft- and RO-water systems, its more important role is conditioning the water into a stable foundation. <p>The post Stop Treating CalMag Like an Emergency Fix first appeared on High Times.</p>

How Washington Killed the Colombian Cannabis Boom And Created the Cocaine Cartels by Accident The 1970s Colombian cannabis boom built Santa Marta Gold, lifted 150,000 families and was crushed by U.S. operations that paved the way for the Medellín and Cali cartels. The story of La Bonanza Marimbera. <p>The post How Washington Killed the Colombian Cannabis Boom And Created the Cocaine Cartels by Accident first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Top 25 Nug Shots From the High Times Spring/Summer Print Issue We asked our community for their best cannabis photography. These 25 shots, from frosty macros to alien-looking trichomes, are what came back. <p>The post The Top 25 Nug Shots From the High Times Spring/Summer Print Issue first appeared on High Times.</p>

Forget the Bracelets. Alex Foxen’s Favorite Trophy Is a Golden Bong. After winning his fourth WSOP bracelet, Alex Foxen says ACR Poker’s Golden Bong is still the coolest trophy on his shelf. <p>The post Forget the Bracelets. Alex Foxen’s Favorite Trophy Is a Golden Bong. first appeared on High Times.</p>

Prohibition Couldn’t Kill Craft Cannabis. Legalization Nearly Did. A former Michigan craft hopeful argues legalization opened the door for cannabis, then priced small growers out of the room. <p>The post Prohibition Couldn’t Kill Craft Cannabis. Legalization Nearly Did. first appeared on High Times.</p>

Sharon Stone Reveals Why She Quit Weed: ‘They Put So Much Stuff in It Now’ Sharon Stone says she quit cannabis after years of using it to cope with seizures and other neurological effects of the stroke she suffered in 2001. She now presents both that decision and her efforts to reduce her medications as part of a broader attempt to reclaim control of her life. Sharon Stone recently spoke <p>The post Sharon Stone Reveals Why She Quit Weed: ‘They Put So Much Stuff in It Now’ first appeared on High…

The Weed I Smuggled in 1974 Kept Showing Up in High Times Centerfolds. It Took Me a Year to Figure Out Why. In 1974, a 20-year-old Steve DeAngelo was settling a drug debt at the Yippie headquarters on Bleecker Street when the first boxes of High Times magazine arrived. Months later, he started seeing his own smuggled loads in the centerfolds. The Harborside founder remembers the night his underground stepped into the light. <p>The post The Weed I Smuggled in 1974 Kept Showing Up in High Times Centerfolds. It Took Me…

From Pelvic Pain to Pleasure: The Case for Cannabis as Women’s Medicine. Research into pelvic pain, orgasmic difficulty, and reproductive health is beginning to reshape medical cannabis policy. <p>The post From Pelvic Pain to Pleasure: The Case for Cannabis as Women’s Medicine. first appeared on High Times.</p>

Texas Built a Weed Market Without Legalizing Weed Texas cannabis laws created a strange split market of hemp, medical cannabis, and marijuana prohibition. Here’s how the confusion took hold. <p>The post Texas Built a Weed Market Without Legalizing Weed first appeared on High Times.</p>

Ganja, Faith, and the Law: Rastafari Cannabis Policies Across the Globe, Explained Rastafari communities helped shape the modern cultural and spiritual understanding of cannabis, yet legal recognition of sacramental ganja use remains uneven across the Caribbean and beyond. Some countries have created varying forms of religious protections, often accompanied by licensing requirements, cultivation limits, or enforcement problems. Believe it or not, the cannabis plant has connections to <p>The post Ganja, Faith, and the Law: Rastafari Cannabis Policies Across the Globe, Explained first appeared on High Times.</p>

The ‘Justified’ Star Took Half an Edible Before His Interview. The Host Found Out 12 Minutes In. Timothy Olyphant arrived at Higher Ground's Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso in full form, disputing his own quotes and joking about bailing for better numbers. Then he revealed he'd taken half an edible before taping. "It's like microdosing," he said. "That's why this thing is really singing." <p>The post The ‘Justified’ Star Took Half an Edible Before His Interview. The Host Found Out 12 Minutes In. first appeared on High Times.</p>

Cone or Straight Joint? Scientists Put Both to the Test. One Packed More THC Per Puff, the Other Took More Puffs to Finish. Four scientists packed a matched set of cones and cylinder joints with the same flower and burned them on a machine tuned to puff like a real cannabis consumer, not a cigarette tester. The machine pulled statistically the same total THC and terpenes from both. What changed was the pacing: cones packed more into each puff, finished sooner, and came out more consistent batch to batch. <p>The post…

From Golden Teachers to Machine Elves: The New Era of Mushroom Genetics Psilocybin mushroom cultivation has evolved from underground spore trading into a booming culture of boutique genetics, potency testing, and experimental breeding. <p>The post From Golden Teachers to Machine Elves: The New Era of Mushroom Genetics first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Best Hash in the World Is Made From the Wrong Flower Solventless hash is the creme de la creme of cannabis. So why is almost all of it pressed from THC-dominant flower? One writer's plea for balance, chemotype diversity and the products the industry keeps insisting nobody wants. <p>The post The Best Hash in the World Is Made From the Wrong Flower first appeared on High Times.</p>

I Talk to Plants. The Cannabis Plant Talks Back. After three weeks of meditating with cannabis, the message was unexpected and sometimes painful. Cannabis is a mother and a healer. She is also, the writer says, angry. <p>The post I Talk to Plants. The Cannabis Plant Talks Back. first appeared on High Times.</p>

Prohibitionists Packed the DEA Hearing to Keep Marijuana in Schedule I. Their Own Witnesses Made the Case for Schedule III. Every nongovernment participant selected for the DEA's rescheduling hearing opposed reform. By the time the record closed, one had undercut a central part of his side's case, another had reportedly conceded the key statutory point, and the opposition's strongest scientist had exposed the legal question likely to shape what comes next. <p>The post Prohibitionists Packed the DEA Hearing to Keep Marijuana in Schedule I. Their Own Witnesses Made the Case for…

Why I Stopped Apologizing for Being a Cannabis-Using Mom A mother and cannabis consumer reflects on chronic pain, parenting stigma, and why she no longer hides part of who she is. <p>The post Why I Stopped Apologizing for Being a Cannabis-Using Mom first appeared on High Times.</p>

Eight Cannabis Legends Return in Regular-Seed Form Barney’s Farm brings eight cannabis icons back as regular seeds, including Skunk #1, Northern Lights, White Widow, and Acapulco Gold. <p>The post Eight Cannabis Legends Return in Regular-Seed Form first appeared on High Times.</p>

My Father Smuggled Cannabis Through Colombia. Fifty Years Later, We Went Back. After Richard DeLisi's release from prison, father and son returned to Colombia to revisit the places and memories that shaped their family's history. <p>The post My Father Smuggled Cannabis Through Colombia. Fifty Years Later, We Went Back. first appeared on High Times.</p>

One THC Gummy Requires a Dispensary. An Identical One Ships to Your Door. Hemp and cannabis are the same species, separated only by federal law. Here's why one THC gummy needs a dispensary while an identical one ships to your door. <p>The post One THC Gummy Requires a Dispensary. An Identical One Ships to Your Door. first appeared on High Times.</p>

Missouri’s Cannabis Market Grew Up Fast Missouri has built one of the country's most dynamic cannabis markets. SWADE Cannabis and BeLeaf Medical Co. show how. <p>The post Missouri’s Cannabis Market Grew Up Fast first appeared on High Times.</p>

Metro Boomin Is Headlining Puffcon. The Hundred Glass Artists Under Him Are the Real Story. Puffcon Block Party 2026 lands in Los Angeles on October 3 and 4 with Metro Boomin and Action Bronson on top of the bill. Further down sits the Glass Village: more than a hundred functional glass artists, a real collector market, and a body of work no American museum will touch. The only thing disqualifying it is what it's for. <p>The post Metro Boomin Is Headlining Puffcon. The Hundred Glass Artists Under Him Are the Real…

‘It Feels Like 2016 Again’: A Week in Germany Reminded the Weed Industry (and Berner) How to Have Fun Mary Jane Berlin brought tens of thousands of people into one building and reminded them why they fell for this plant. Then came the other side of Germany’s cannabis story, a pharmaceutical grow so strict it took half an hour of biosecurity just to reach the plants, and a castle where the industry felt like <p>The post ‘It Feels Like 2016 Again’: A Week in Germany Reminded the Weed Industry (and Berner)…

The Return of Ali G: Crashed Wimbledon as ‘Official Ganja Dealer’, Almost Got Arrested Sacha Baron Cohen has reportedly been filming a new Ali G movie in secret. Could that explain why this character is suddenly reappearing everywhere, dressed like a pothead and trying to sell bags of weed at Wimbledon? Probably.  Reports surfaced in early July claiming that production has already wrapped on a new, still-untitled Ali G <p>The post The Return of Ali G: Crashed Wimbledon as ‘Official Ganja Dealer’, Almost Got Arrested first appeared on High Times.</p>

Watch: In New York, You Can Smoke Weed in Front of a Police Station. The World Cup Just Brought the Whole Planet to Find Out. Ethan Zohn brings our World Cup cannabis docuseries home to New York, the city where he was diagnosed with cancer and found cannabis before it was legal. Episode three runs from a Chelsea pitch to a dispensary in the old Nat Sherman cigar townhouse. <p>The post Watch: In New York, You Can Smoke Weed in Front of a Police Station. The World Cup Just Brought the…

You’ve Got Mail: Are Berlin Drug Dealers Really Leaving Free Samples in Mailboxes? Berlin police are warning residents after receiving reports that suspected drug samples were being left in residential mailboxes, allegedly in an effort to attract new customers. While only a limited number of cases have been confirmed so far, the incidents highlight how the illegal drug market continues to adopt increasingly sophisticated marketing tactics. What Berlin <p>The post You’ve Got Mail: Are Berlin Drug Dealers Really Leaving Free Samples in Mailboxes? first appeared on High Times.</p>

Cannabis Culture Needs Collaboration, Not Fragmentation Cannabis survived through human connection. Its future depends on collaboration, shared standards, and intentional spaces. <p>The post Cannabis Culture Needs Collaboration, Not Fragmentation first appeared on High Times.</p>

We Legalized Weed… So Why Does It Still Feel Broken? We legalized weed in most states. So why does it still feel broken? Ten voices on the cannabis frontline explain what got built, what got broken and what's still worth saving. <p>The post We Legalized Weed… So Why Does It Still Feel Broken? first appeared on High Times.</p>

Five Years and $100,000 Later, New York Finally Let Me Sell Weed After five years, two applications, six figures in expenses, and a maze of shifting rules, one New York cannabis entrepreneur finally secured a retail license—and learned how legalization can still punish the people it was supposed to help. The process to get to this point has been, in a word, farcical. From shifting goalposts to <p>The post Five Years and $100,000 Later, New York Finally Let Me Sell Weed first appeared on High Times.</p>

Dabbling in Dabs: The History of 710 Here’s the history of 710 from honey oil to live resin and forward. <p>The post Dabbling in Dabs: The History of 710 first appeared on High Times.</p>

Watch: Berner Saved This ‘Throwaway’ Strain. Now It’s a High Times Strain of the Month. Berner pulled a written-off strain back from the scrap pile, then stood in a Berlin hall with 80,000 people and felt the unity the weed business had lost. His rule has not changed: trust the nose and the people, not the paperwork. <p>The post Watch: Berner Saved This ‘Throwaway’ Strain. Now It’s a High Times Strain of the Month. first appeared on High Times.</p>

Premo Brings Its Family-First Model to Dover Premo expands into Morris County with Premo Dover, bringing its culture-first retail model, community work, and family-run approach to a second New Jersey location. <p>The post Premo Brings Its Family-First Model to Dover first appeared on High Times.</p>

Poker, Soccer, and High Times Go All In ACR Poker pro Alex Foxen, Erling Haaland, the WSOP, and High Times all speak to a summer built on risk, spectacle, and cultural takeover. <p>The post Poker, Soccer, and High Times Go All In first appeared on High Times.</p>