Venezuela, Drugs and Oil: How Washington’s Policy Has Changed Washington has removed Venezuela from the group of countries deemed to have “failed demonstrably” in their anti-drug obligations while maintaining it on the broader list of major drug-transit and producing countries, citing growing cooperation with Delcy Rodríguez’s interim government. At the same time, U.S. oil companies and policymakers are rapidly deepening their involvement in Venezuela’s <p>The post Venezuela, Drugs and Oil: How Washington’s Policy Has Changed first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Piece That Outlasts the Session Flower gets smoked and disappears. The right piece stays behind, becoming part of the room, the ritual, and eventually, the memories. <p>The post The Piece That Outlasts the Session first appeared on High Times.</p>

Ecuador’s Hemp Market Is Growing Fast—and It’s Not Just About Cultivation Ecuador’s hemp sector is projected to approach or surpass $20 million in 2026 as companies move beyond raw biomass into chocolates, cosmetics, supplements, veterinary products and other finished goods. With more than 700 companies operating across the supply chain, the industry is now looking to capture more value domestically while expanding finished-product exports into international <p>The post Ecuador’s Hemp Market Is Growing Fast—and It’s Not Just About Cultivation first appeared on High Times.</p>

The FDA Wants to Talk Psychedelic Therapy. The Movement Has Bigger Questions. The FDA's written comment period on therapeutic psychedelics closes October 5, and the notice is narrower than most people calling for comments seem to realize. The National Psychedelics Association is backing an ADA lawsuit over Oregon's centers-only rule. Port Townsend is pushing grow-your-own, and says many of its local mushroom growers are retirees. San Francisco is training a professional class. And a Brooklyn Buddhist group is worried legalization will make the experience too easy. <p>The post The FDA Wants…

An Eighth of Weed Costs $15 in Washington and $52 in Kentucky. The Reason Isn’t What You Think. The national price of an eighth moved seven cents in a year, but 24 of 34 states cut theirs. Medical patients look gouged until you weight by how much each state actually sells, and then the gap vanishes to a single cent. What's left is store count: states with fewer than 25 dispensaries sell an eighth at $43.89, states with more than 300 sell it at $18.50. <p>The post An Eighth of Weed…

New Jersey Is Kicking THC Drinks Out of Liquor Stores. High Tide Has a Plan. New Jersey pulls THC drinks from liquor stores on November 13. High Tide explains what the deadline changes and where operators still get squeezed. <p>The post New Jersey Is Kicking THC Drinks Out of Liquor Stores. High Tide Has a Plan. first appeared on High Times.</p>

One of the ‘Mormon Wives’ Chooses Cannabis: Here’s What the Church Actually Says Mormon Wives star Mikayla Matthews says medical cannabis changed how she manages nerve pain and sleep. Her experience also highlights a lesser-known reality: the Mormon Church allows medical cannabis under certain conditions, even as it rejects recreational use. <p>The post One of the ‘Mormon Wives’ Chooses Cannabis: Here’s What the Church Actually Says first appeared on High Times.</p>

Chain vs. Indy: Which Dispensaries Do People Prefer? Chain dispensaries earn twice the wholesale discounts and reorder every two weeks. Independents order every 24 days and stock the same eight SKUs per order. Operators and wholesale data on where the two models actually diverge, and where they don't. <p>The post Chain vs. Indy: Which Dispensaries Do People Prefer? first appeared on High Times.</p>

Twenty Brazilian Cannabis Patient Associations Are Meeting Inside a Free Arts Fair in Fortaleza Brazil's medical cannabis access runs through court orders and nonprofit patient associations. Twenty of them gather in Ceará this month, alongside free music, art and talks. <p>The post Twenty Brazilian Cannabis Patient Associations Are Meeting Inside a Free Arts Fair in Fortaleza first appeared on High Times.</p>

In 1968 I Faced 70 Years for Giving Away Joints. Fifty-Five Years Later, I Paid $32.16 at the Counter. In 1968, Jeff Burger faced felony charges over a few joints. More than 50 years later, he bought legal cannabis at a New Jersey dispensary. <p>The post In 1968 I Faced 70 Years for Giving Away Joints. Fifty-Five Years Later, I Paid $32.16 at the Counter. first appeared on High Times.</p>

The Cold Stops the Clock: How Fresh Frozen Cannabis Becomes Live Rosin Fresh frozen holds the flower at the moment of harvest, keeping much of the terpene profile and color that curing takes away. Benjamin Lind of Humboldt Seed Company, Jeff Wirt and Dan Michaels of Jaunty, and Federico Vázquez of The Dab Club explain the trichome trifecta that decides which genetics can handle it, why the cold chain is a barrier almost nobody clears, and what a hash library actually is. <p>The post The Cold Stops the Clock: How Fresh…

Prehistoric High: 25,000-Year-Old Teeth May Hold the Oldest Evidence of Psychoactive Drug Use Researchers found traces of arecoline in ancient teeth from Indonesia, suggesting humans may have used psychoactive areca nuts as far back as 25,000 years ago. <p>The post Prehistoric High: 25,000-Year-Old Teeth May Hold the Oldest Evidence of Psychoactive Drug Use first appeared on High Times.</p>

Mexico’s Supreme Court Says Cooking With Cannabis Is Allowed—With a Personal-Use Permit  Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that cooking with cannabis can be covered under a personal-use permit, expanding the scope of recreational self-consumption without legalizing commercial edibles. <p>The post Mexico’s Supreme Court Says Cooking With Cannabis Is Allowed—With a Personal-Use Permit  first appeared on High Times.</p>

High Times Cannabis Cup Montana 2026: The Complete Winners List Wild Sky Farms won both hybrid and indica. Funk Farm placed in all three flower categories and finished with more medals than anyone. And three of the six edible and gummy medals went to products that lead with their extraction method. Every winner from the High Times Cannabis Cup Montana. <p>The post High Times Cannabis Cup Montana 2026: The Complete Winners List first appeared on High Times.</p>

A Magazine From 1969 Made the Case the DEA Is Making Now. It Also Named the People Who Would Spend 57 Years Stalling. The Marijuana Review, published out of a Buffalo dorm room in January 1969 with Allen Ginsberg listed among its advisers, argued that the science on cannabis was already sufficient and that the people demanding more research would never be satisfied. Fifty-seven years later, the DEA made the same argument in a federal proceeding, against the same objection. <p>The post A Magazine From 1969 Made the Case the DEA…

Inside the Mushroom-and-Hemp Coffin Designed to Return Bodies to the Earth Dutch company Loop Biotech’s Living Cocoon is a biodegradable coffin made from mycelium and recycled hemp fibers that can break down in roughly 45 days while helping return nutrients to the soil. The concept gained fresh attention after a 70-year-old woman named Carolyn became the first person in Australia to be buried in one. What <p>The post Inside the Mushroom-and-Hemp Coffin Designed to Return Bodies to the Earth first appeared on High Times.</p>

CBG Protected Memory in a Schizophrenia Model. The Reason It Worked Wasn’t the One Scientists Expected. Repeated CBG treatment prevented a long-term recognition memory deficit in male rats given MK-801, a compound used to model the cognitive impairments seen in schizophrenia. CBG did not restore the BDNF protein levels MK-801 had lowered, but it raised TrkB messenger RNA in the medial prefrontal cortex, pointing to a mechanism the researchers had not expected. <p>The post CBG Protected Memory in a Schizophrenia Model. The Reason It Worked Wasn’t the One Scientists Expected. first…

Magic Garden Botanicals Meets Sound System Culture At Submersion Festival, Magic Garden Botanicals' Smoke Village connects a Tri-State cannabis brand to a music tradition long associated with the plant. <p>The post Magic Garden Botanicals Meets Sound System Culture first appeared on High Times.</p>

Trump Commutes Two Cannabis Sentences—But What About Rescheduling? President Donald Trump commuted the federal marijuana sentences of Jerry Haymon IV and Kevin Harden as his administration continues a broader process that could move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. Their cases sharpen a longstanding question in cannabis reform: what happens to people punished under federal marijuana laws while the government is actively <p>The post Trump Commutes Two Cannabis Sentences—But What About Rescheduling? first appeared on High Times.</p>

New Zealand Joins Australia in Opening Restricted Access to MDMA for PTSD New Zealand has authorized two psychiatrists to prescribe pharmaceutical-grade MDMA to selected adults with PTSD, creating a tightly controlled treatment pathway while the drug remains officially unapproved. <p>The post New Zealand Joins Australia in Opening Restricted Access to MDMA for PTSD first appeared on High Times.</p>

In Texas, One Delta-8 THC Gummy Can Carry More Prison Time Than an Ounce of Weed A single four-gram delta-8 gummy can now expose its owner to a felony bracket that runs to twenty years, because Texas weighs the whole product and a gummy is mostly sugar. An ounce of marijuana is still a misdemeanor. The Legislature never voted for any of it, and the delta-9 gummies that survived the crackdown are legal on a technicality federal law erases in November. <p>The post In Texas, One Delta-8 THC Gummy Can Carry…

New Jersey Cannabis Comes Together at Shore House Canna’s Fall Fest Shore House Canna’s Fall Fest returns to Rea’s Farm in West Cape May for a free day of cannabis, community, brands, games, and live coverage. <p>The post New Jersey Cannabis Comes Together at Shore House Canna’s Fall Fest first appeared on High Times.</p>

Beware of the Chads Berner calls them the Chads: the ones who arrive with contracts and agendas and no feel for the plant. A new wave of institutional money is about to be free to deploy into cannabis, and the last one took MedMen, Flow Kana, Canopy and High Times itself from the people who built them. Rolando García on what the term sheets did, and what the founders who kept control did differently. <p>The post Beware of the Chads first appeared on High Times.</p>

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…