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 ...

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, ...

Congress banned most hemp-derived products, but a new Senate bill offers a national regulatory framework with real testing, age limits and THC caps. The fight now comes down to whether lawmakers ...

For seven months, American athlete Jarred Shaw sat inside Indonesia’s prison system, wondering whether a package of THC gummies sent from Thailand would cost him his life. On Tuesday, an Indonesian ...

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 ...

A new analysis from the Congressional Research Service says the federal government may not have the capacity or clarity to enforce the hemp ban that takes effect in November 2026. The memo, published ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lunch breaks hit different when you’re an LA gig worker who still clocks into a day job. Warehouse in the morning and creative at night—my whole life runs on a double-shift timeline, and sometimes I ...

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 ...

There’s a moment, somewhere past the hour mark, when Trinidad James leans back and drops it without drama: “I’m not fighting for my life. I’m fighting for my flow state.” It’s quiet, almost offhand, ...