Weed Doesn’t Make You Creative. It Just Gets Out of the Way
Cannabis doesn’t give you talent you don’t already have. A psychiatrist specializing in cannabis and entheogens breaks down what THC actually does to the creative brain — and why the myth of the green muse is more complicated than it looks. The myth of the green muse has coasted through history, dodging potholes between the […]
Cannabis Doesn’t Distort Reality. It Shows You the Director’s Cut.
This article originally appeared in High Times’ 50th Anniversary print issue. It is an excerpt from Jason Silva’s book Sacred Derangement: A Field Guide to Outrageous Creativity, Radical Self-Expression and Living in Awe, published in August 2025 and available now on Amazon. An excerpt from Jason Silva’s new book Sacred Derangement. On cannabis, consciousness as […]
Cannabis Doesn’t Have a Marketing Problem: The Pitch Has Been Amiss From The Start
Opinion / Guest Column The following is an opinion piece by Eric Offenberger, CEO of multistate cannabis operator Vext Science. The views are the author’s own and do not reflect High Times’ reporting. It originally appeared in Cannabis Confidential, Todd Harrison’s Substack, where Offenberger is a guest contributor, and is republished with permission. An MSO […]
Why Legal Cannabis Doesn’t Belong Next to Gambling and Porn
This article was originally published by Cultivated and is republished here with permission. Cannabis legalization carries lots of positives Cannabis isn’t the new Big Tobacco Legal cannabis may carry risks. But treating it like gambling or AI pornography flattens the debate and ignores the public health, economic and regulatory benefits legalization can create. There seems […]
A Rehab Company Says 35% Of Gen Z Is High At Work. Here’s Why The Math Doesn’t Add Up.
A viral survey claims 35% of Gen Z use substances before work. The number is everywhere on Instagram. It came from a rehab treatment marketing site, the math doesn’t match federal data, and the headlines buried what the survey actually measured. Here’s what the data really says. You have probably seen the stat by now. […]