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 […]
The Best Flower I Got This Month Is Going Into the Freezer Without Being Smoked
The best flower that showed up at my place this month is going into the freezer without ever getting smoked. That is happening more often, and this month’s haul explains why. Most Wanted did an outstanding job growing this Guava Tart clone from Purple City Genetics. It is covered in trichomes, the smell is pungent […]
Ed Rosenthal Looks Back on 50 Years of Cannabis on the Good PizzZa Podcast
Ed Rosenthal spent close to two hours on episode 200 of the Good PizzZa podcast, which premiered Sept. 14, walking host JP through a run of cannabis history he happens to have lived through: the first grow books, the Yippies, his federal arrest, and where he thinks the plant is headed next. From the Bronx […]
Cheaper Flower, More Choice, No Surge in Use: The Netherlands’ Cannabis Pilot Delivers Its First Results
For decades, the Netherlands has lived with a long-standing contradiction known as the “backdoor problem”: coffeeshops could sell cannabis under certain conditions as part of the country’s tolerance policy, while the commercial cultivation supplying those shops remained outside the regulated framework. Since April 2025, the country has been trying to resolve that contradiction through a […]
TraxNYC Cast a Real Cannabis Nug in Solid Gold. The Flower Vanished. The Shape Didn’t.
A Diamond District jeweler took one of weed culture’s most temporary objects and tried to make it permanent. The finished piece looks like a luxury object. Getting there was not. Reported with Cesar Soriano Ahead of 4/20 last year, a bag of cannabis showed up at a Diamond District jewelry shop, and according to the […]
Mexico’s Supreme Court Says Cooking With Cannabis Is Allowed—With a Personal-Use Permit
Mexico’s Supreme Court has pushed the boundaries of legal adult-use cannabis a little further. This time, the issue was not cultivation, possession or transport. It was cooking. The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, or SCJN, ruled that authorizations for recreational cannabis self-consumption may also cover the use of cannabis or THC in prepared […]
Trump Commutes Two Cannabis Sentences—But What About Rescheduling?
President Donald Trump commuted the federal marijuana sentences of Jerry Haymon IV and Kevin Harden as his administration continues a broader process that could move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. Their cases sharpen a longstanding question in cannabis reform: what happens to people punished under federal marijuana laws while the government is actively […]
Dead Cats, Drag Clowns, and the Weirdest Awards in Indie Film
Dominatrix Mara’s Cocoon, winner of the festival’s WTF Award, finds sensuality and psychological tension in water, nylon stockings, thin latex, flowers, and two women engaged in what the filmmaker describes as a dynamic metamorphosis. Mara wanted the film to challenge the usual media treatment of kink and BDSM. Rather than framing intensity through aggression or […]
Trump Just Delayed the Hemp Ban. The New Deadline Is the Day Government Funding Runs Out.
He signed it Wednesday. Most of the federal hemp restrictions now take effect on December 11 instead of November 12. That date is also when the stopgap funding bill expires. One deadline did not move at all. The hemp industry got its extension. It did not get much else. On Wednesday, September 2, President Trump […]
At Hash Hole Island, the Joints Are Six Times the Standard Size
Four years running, a field in Brentwood, California, fills up with people passing joints the size of cigars. RBL Posse and the Mendo Dope Band played this one. The smoke did the rest. A hash hole is a joint with hash rosin running down the center. The rosin burns slower than the flower around it, […]