How to Hide Your High, According to People Who Have It Down to a Science
When you’re higher than you planned, paranoia is the real enemy. Five cannabis users share their best techniques for surviving the moment you cross from private to public. Let’s be honest: nothing ruins a good high faster than the sudden panic of having to interact with the world and pretend you’re sober. Your head floats […]
How to Hack the ‘God Button’: Could Neuralink Replace the Cannabis Ritual?
Neuralink can simulate euphoria and stimulate the reward system on demand. But can a chip replace the ritual of rolling, lighting and getting lost in the smoke? In Arco, an animated film nominated for an Academy Award and presented worldwide at the Cannes Film Festival, the young protagonist dons a multicolored hood with a diamond […]
Every Roll of Paper You’ve Touched Comes From a French Invention. The English Took the Credit.
Every paper mill in the world still runs on the continuous-web design a Frenchman patented in 1799. His name was Louis-Nicolas Robert. You’ve never heard it. That’s about to change. The Short Version A French accountant invented the machine that made modern paper possible. His employer sent the design to England behind his back. Two […]
The Chess Teacher Who Gets You High First
Sam Adler grew up hyperactive in Manhattan, learned chess from a Russian janitor at age five, and eventually decided that cannabis and the Royal Game belong together. His father used to write record reviews for High Times. His mother hosts a PBS cooking show. Neither is particularly surprised by where he ended up. Sam Adler […]
Moms Who Toke, Build, Hustle And Hold It Down
For Mother’s Day, Maya Elisabeth asked mothers across the cannabis community to talk about the plant in their own words. What came back was honest, funny and completely their own. Motherhood made me who I am. So did cannabis. I’ve found the two go hand in hand in ways I didn’t expect: stress relief, staying […]
The Industrial Revolution of the Joint
Notes from the road, and where pre-rolls are taking us Before you light up, think about what you reach for when you want a joint. A fat cone, a slim dog walker, an infused rocket, a glass tip blunt, a spliff cut with tobacco, a hand roll in thin paper that burns like a ribbon. […]
Mexico’s Congress Has Had Four Years to Pass a Cannabis Law. 15,000 People Just Ran Out of Patience.
By Luis Fernando Campos — Educannabis On May 2nd, the Global March for Cannabis Decriminalization hit Mexico City, Medellín and Santiago at the same time. A firsthand chronicle from the street. On May 2nd, Paseo de la Reforma stopped being the avenue of political agreements and became something far more uncomfortable for those in power: […]
Jadakiss Smoked With Biggie, Dodged Cops For Sour Diesel and Lived To See Legal Weed In Harlem
The LOX legend and Dynasty Commodities co-founder Rich Jospitre talk to High Times about Biggie sessions, Sour, Haze, Harlem ownership and the long road from dimes and dubs to marble walls. There was liquid hash. Mason jars. Cognac. A room full of people getting impossibly high. Notorious B.I.G. was there. Jason Phillips, better known as […]
THC Drinks Hit Governors Ball With ayrloom
New York has always been a proving ground for culture. Music, fashion, street energy—it all collides here first, then ripples outward. Cannabis spent decades orbiting that world just outside the spotlight. Cannabis Finally Gets a Seat at the Festival The Rise of Low-Dose Social Cannabis This June, that changes. At Governors Ball in Queens, THC […]
The Highest Mayor in Cannabis
How weed, music, and the mountains shaped my life—and put me in office. I didn’t set out to become a mayor. If you had met me years ago—somewhere in a crowd at a Grateful Dead show, completely wrapped up in the music and the feeling of connection—you probably wouldn’t have guessed politics was anywhere in […]