In Germany’s Cannabis Clubs, You Smoke Alone
Legal on paper, restricted in practice. Inside Germany’s cannabis system, where cultivation is allowed but culture is kept at arm’s length. Last summer, I visited a legal German social club for the first time, somewhere in southwestern Germany. With camera batteries charged and microphones double-checked, my intern and I set out to film a mini-documentary […]
Legalization Was Supposed to Be Bad for Kids. It Turned Out to Be the Opposite
Thirty years into the transition to regulated cannabis markets, teen use and ease of access are at or near the lowest levels ever recorded. It’s prohibition — not legalization — that put kids most at risk. This is an op-ed contribution from Adam J. Smith, Executive Director of the Marijuana Policy Project. The views expressed […]
High Times Publisher Josh Kesselman Just Made the Forbes Cannabis List. It Started With a Magazine Smuggled Under His Jacket at 16.
Josh Kesselman bought his first copy of High Times at 16, smuggled it under his jacket out of a New York City shop and read it cover to cover twice. Forty years later, he owns it, and Forbes just named him one of the 42 people shaping the legal cannabis industry. You can tell the […]
Psychedelic Reform Is Spreading Faster Than Anyone Expected. The Movement Is Trying Not to Blow It.
Psychedelic legislation is moving through more state capitols simultaneously than at any point in history. The question is not whether reform is coming. It is whether it will be done right. In March 2026, Oregon signed into law significant modifications to its psilocybin services program, the first regulated psychedelic access system in the country, now […]
What Growers Really Talk About
Most of the real lessons about growing cannabis never happen in public. They happen in grow rooms while someone points at a plant and says, “See that?” They happen late at night after the lights shut off, when cultivators start talking about the mistakes that taught them the most. The kind of knowledge that rarely […]
How Free Do You Actually Feel as a Cannabis Consumer? NORML Wants to Know
Forget what your state’s law says on paper. NORML’s new Cannabis Freedom Survey asks the question that actually matters: how free do you feel? Laws on the books and lived reality are two different things. You can be in a legal state and still worry about your job, your landlord, your custody arrangement or a […]
The Real Cost of Cannabis Prohibition
Cannabis reform is often framed as a business or cultural issue. In reality, cannabis policy goes far beyond dispensaries; it touches the health, security, and financial stability of every American family. Decisions on cannabis policy shape who can access medicine, how communities are protected, and whether hardworking people can maintain stable livelihoods. Photo courtesy of […]
Everything You Know About CBD Is Probably Wrong
By Michael Krawitz with the assistance of the Veterans Action Council. For many decades, those of us working at the intersection of Veteran healthcare, medical cannabis advocacy, and international drug policy have encountered the same response from the DEA that the international treaties allow the DEA, up until now, to block medical access to cannabis. […]
How $10 Million Meant for Florida Taxpayers Ended Up in the Anti-Marijuana War
A $10 million payment tied to a Florida Medicaid settlement moved through the Hope Florida Foundation, into two anti-drug nonprofits, and then into a political committee fighting marijuana legalization. Public filings also show a major funding surge at SAM Action during the same period. The full picture remains incomplete, but the overlap, timing, and money […]
Jimmy Kimmel Made a Weed Doc for Hulu. Of Course High Times Is In It
Hulu’s new anthology 4X20: Quick Hits arrives April 20 with four documentary shorts, including one focused on High Times, Tom Forcade and the magazine’s role in pushing cannabis culture into the mainstream. Jimmy Kimmel is getting into weed history. Hulu has released the first trailer for 4X20: Quick Hits, a new anthology series executive-produced by […]