Better Call Saul: How Cannabis Lawyers Work in a Business That’s Still a Federal Crime
Cannabis lawyers operate in a legal world full of contradictions, where state permission, federal prohibition, tax burdens, weak trademark protections, and shifting regulations constantly collide. Their work goes far beyond paperwork: it involves protecting clients, navigating gray areas, persuading politicians, and trying to build a legal industry without erasing the people criminalized before legalization. In […]
High Times Cannabis Cup Lands in Latin America: Argentina in October, Puerto Rico in December
Buenos Aires on October 23, San Juan on December 5. Dates, categories, judges, deadlines and how to enter both. The High Times Cannabis Cup started in Amsterdam in 1988 and has since run in the Netherlands, across legal U.S. markets and, during the pandemic, through judge kits consumers bought at dispensaries. This year it comes […]
DEA Judge Freezes Cannabis Rescheduling Over a Report About Missing Paperwork
The hearing on broader cannabis rescheduling was awaiting the judge’s recommendation. Three of the seven outside parties the DEA let in have paused it with a government report that never evaluates cannabis on the merits. The DEA’s chief administrative law judge has stayed the broader cannabis rescheduling proceeding as it awaited his recommendation, after three […]
Five Lessons From a Colorado Grower Who Survived Cannabis’ Boom
Colorado was one of the first states to legalize adult-use cannabis, and more than a decade later it offers an early look at what happens after a market matures: falling wholesale prices, ongoing consolidation, and many operators that have been acquired, changed direction, or closed. Jonny Radding is still here. A founding partner of Durango […]
DEA judge grants cannabis opponents’ request to pause rescheduling hearing (Newsletter: September 30, 2026)
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Dispensary Events Guide: Pop-Ups, Anniversaries and What Makes Them Work
Dispensaries hosted more events in the first six months of 2026 than in all of 2025. What works, what flops and what gets a brand rep sent home before the doors open. Kings House of Fire celebrated two years in business by taking over its own parking lot. The New York dispensary partnered with the […]
Terp Basel Is Half Festival, Half Trade Show
Five years in, the Miami gathering shows what happens when cannabis sesh culture grows into something bigger without entirely leaving its roots behind. Terp Basel is entering its fifth year in Miami, and this December, the event is leveling up. Visual art is at the center of this year’s experience, with large-scale installations and interactive […]
Cannabis Withdrawal Treatment: Experimental Drug Shows Promise in Small Trial
An experimental drug combining nabilone and gabapentin reduced the severity and bothersomeness of cannabis withdrawal symptoms in a small randomized, placebo-controlled trial involving adults with moderate-to-severe cannabis use disorder. The results offer an early signal of potential benefit, but with only 14 participants, a short study period and financial ties to the drug’s developer, much […]
Another Poll Shows Massachusetts Voters Don’t Want To Reverse Marijuana Legalization
The latest in a series of polls ahead of the November elections continues to show that a sizable majority Massachusetts voters oppose a measure on the ballot that would roll back the state’s marijuana legalization law. The new survey, published on Tuesday by CommonWealth Beacon and conducted by MassINC Polling Group (MPG), shows that 61 […]
Chloe Sells on Hunter S. Thompson, Acid and Owl Farm
She photographed Owl Farm and made Hunter S. Thompson’s breakfast at eleven at night. Twenty years later, Chloe Sells talks acid, communal weed, AI and peanut butter Bloody Marys. This article originally appeared in High Times’ Spring/Summer 2026 print edition. Get yours here. A feline skull surrounded by dark and dead leaves. Sunlight seeping through tree branches […]