Legalization Isn’t Justice Until Every Cannabis Prisoner Is Free
Stephanie Shepard is the Acting Executive Director of Last Prisoner Project, where she leads the organization’s national work to free those incarcerated for cannabis offenses and to repair the lasting harms of cannabis criminalization. A powerful advocate for retroactive relief, Stephanie brings both lived experience and deep empathy to her role, turning her own story […]
The Legal Weed Meltdown Ontario Doesn’t Want You to See
Ontario’s legal cannabis market is moving more product than ever, but selling it is becoming a losing game for many shop owners. New data from the Ontario Cannabis Store’s 2024 By the Numbers report shows a record-breaking $2.15 billion in retail sales, an 11% increase from 2023, with nearly 409 million grams of tested flower […]
The Hidden Shortcut to Launching a Cannabis Brand
When people imagine launching a cannabis brand, the pictures in their minds tend to be glamorous: sleek jars of flower displayed under glowing dispensary lights, a social media feed buzzing with lifestyle photos, maybe even a booth at a trade show with a line of eager fans. Few picture themselves in a manufacturing facility, watching […]
Why Religion Was Never Sober: Lessons from Gary Laderman’s ‘Sacred Drugs’
Religion lives in practice, not only in pews. In “Sacred Drugs,” scholar Gary Laderman maps how psychoactive substances move through ritual, identity, and meaning. The canvas is wide. Coffee and wine at the table. Cannabis in ceremony. Peyote, psilocybin, and LSD in spiritual quests. Pharmaceuticals as faith for a modern age. The question is simple. […]
Now Is the Time to Embrace, Not Abandon, Cannabis Activism
This article originally appeared in High Times Magazine’s 50th Anniversary Print Issue. Order yours here and get it delivered to your door. Political and societal changes rarely occur organically. They only happen when advocates agitate for them. For over five decades, NORML and its grassroots supporters have advocated for ending the criminalization, discrimination, and stigmatization […]
Unexpected Pleasures of Weed: The Strain That Turned My Husband Into a Clean Freak
Dan and I have been married for over 20 years, and we have always maintained a very simple domestic arrangement. He does all the cooking: the three usual meals, plus a 9 pm bonus one, and I do the dishes. This has always been assumed and has always worked for us. That is, until one […]
A Long Strange Trip: Yelawolf and Edward Crowe Bring Blotter Art to Life
Yelawolf and manager/business partner Edward Crowe fully embrace the fact that they took copious amounts of LSD growing up and became intimately acquainted with the perforated (and often intricately designed) blotter paper. From unique psychedelic artwork to simple 2D symbols printed on each hit, the style was intriguing to Crowe. To Wolf, it symbolized the […]
How Genomics is Shaping the Future of Cannabis Breeding
By Angela Bacca Cannabis breeders have notoriously been reclusive and secretive, primarily as a byproduct of Prohibition. While the last century has pushed many mainstream agricultural commodities towards a more narrowed genetic pool to support monocropping and mass production, cannabis genetics were shaped by a global underground cottage market comprised of small-scale grower-breeders, smugglers, and […]
The Global Cannabis Renaissance: A Long Strange 18 Year Trip Across the World’s Green Frontiers
“Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world…” Cannabis isn’t just a plant: it’s a passport. A language without borders. A seed that connects continents, cultures, and generations. It’s the smell on your clothes after a night in a dive bar in Amsterdam. It’s the sticky hash a Moroccan farmer […]
Puff Puff Passover: How Tokin’ Jew Mixes Faith and Cannabis
When Will Cohen and Ben Kraim first started Tokin’ Jew, they were not trying to launch a business. They were two friends exploring the overlap between Judaism, cannabis, and community, laughing their way into something bigger. Today, the Brooklyn-based brand is part meme page, part kosher edible company, part community builder, and part reimagining of […]