How a nationwide DEA dragnet in 1989 turned garden shops into crime scenes, and taught the War on Drugs to police an idea. Update (Dec. 24, 2025): After publication, former High Times editor Steve ...
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order classifying illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals as “weapons of mass destruction,” a move that reframes the U.S. overdose crisis as a ...
The story does not begin inside a corporate innovation lab or a venture-backed tech campus. It starts on June 18, 2016, during a Call of Duty match, when Zen Dispensary co-founder Justin Kruidenier ...
Uruguay is once again weighing the possibility of allowing tourists and non-residents over 18 who visit the South American nation to buy legal cannabis even if they aren’t citizens. Why does Uruguay ...
George Clinton, the visionary bandleader behind Parliament-Funkadelic and a pioneer of psychedelic funk, has spent six decades reshaping the boundaries of music, culture and consciousness. At 83, he ...
When I spoke with Cheech & Chong’s team in 2025, the tone leaned more toward business planning than cultural throwback, which makes sense at this stage of the industry. But there’s still room for a ...
Trump is reportedly weighing a directive that would push federal agencies to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III, but the White House says no final decision has been made. If it happens, ...
Who would have imagined that Latin America’s largest cannabis expo would take place in a country whose Congress still treats the subject with deep suspicion? Yet that is what unfolded as ExpoCannabis ...
In industries built on culture as much as commerce, the right storyteller can shape how your brand is understood. Cannabis and psychedelics companies do not simply sell products. They communicate ...
When I sat down with Rohan Marley ahead of The Whine Down—our cultural benefit experience supporting the Bob & Rita Marley Foundation’s hurricane relief efforts in Jamaica—our conversation moved ...
Few environmental tragedies have been as deeply ingrained in popular culture as the Chernobyl disaster. In 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered an explosion of unprecedented proportions, ...
For years, getting into the cannabis industry was a high-stakes game reserved for the well-capitalized. Entrepreneurs shelled out millions for real estate, lawyers, and license applications thick ...