High Times Is Back. Here’s What We Built in 5.5 Months
High Times officially turned the lights back on July 16, 2025. We didn’t relaunch anything. We reopened the site and started publishing again. And pretty quickly, it became clear that the thing still worked. When the doors open and the work is real, people show up. Writers. Readers. Artists. Growers. Longtime supporters and people discovering […]
Can I Even Grow? A Guide for the Aspiring Home Cultivator
There’s something primal about growing your own plant. It’s independence and freedom in a pot. A small act of rebellion in a red Solo cup. The quiet magic of planting a seed and watching life emerge from soil and light—and the satisfaction of knowing exactly what went into the flower you’ll one day hold between […]
High Times Greats: A Christmas Story – Which Real Meaning?
For an article in the December, 1979 edition of High Times, late, great counterculture correspondent Glenn O’Brien examined the connections between Santa Claus and a specific kind of psychedelic mushroom known as the fly agaric, aka the toadstool that conquered the universe. In fact, the existence of Santa could be related to a shaman in […]
Adventures with Santa: Puff, Puff, Pass with Josh Kesselman
For more than a decade, “Adventures with Santa” has appeared in magazines around the world: a fictional series blending holiday magic with cannabis culture, compassion, and plant wisdom. Each year, Santa drops in on real figures from the cannabis community for a little medicine, a little conversation, and a reminder of why this plant matters. […]
Even the Feds Say Teen Marijuana Use Is Declining
For years, critics of cannabis reform have leaned on the same warning: legal weed will lead to more teens using marijuana. The data keeps telling a different story. According to newly released, federally funded survey data compiled by researchers at the University of Michigan, teen marijuana use has continued its long-term decline and now sits […]
Charcoal Filters Are for Suckers
Charcoal filters have quietly become one of the most successful products in modern cannabis culture. They look scientific, they promise a smoother experience, and they come wrapped in the language of harm reduction. Cleaner smoke. Less tar. Same high. It sounds reasonable. Responsible, even. The problem is that activated charcoal does exactly what it is […]
Is Trump Rescheduling Marijuana Today? Sources Point To a 1:30 PM ET Order
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order addressing federal cannabis policy at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, according to multiple reports citing the president’s schedule and White House officials. Sources say the order is expected to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act. If that […]
Trump Says He’s ‘Looking Very Strongly’ at Cannabis Reform. The Catch Is What Comes After.
President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged on Monday that his administration is actively considering reclassifying cannabis under federal law, saying the current Schedule I status blocks medical and scientific research. “A lot of people want to see it, the reclassification, because it leads to tremendous amounts of research that can’t be done unless you reclassify,” Trump […]
The Gardener Who Got Cannabis Moms To Breathe: A Q&A With Stephanie ‘thegardentok’ Trenkamp
For a lot of people, cannabis content starts as a joke, a trend, a way to chase numbers. For Stephanie Trenkamp, it started as survival. She was a mom in her garage, lighting up after bedtime, trying to hold it together while figuring out how to help support her family without disappearing from her kids’ […]
Tourists Already Toke in Uruguay, Now the Country Might Finally Let Them Buy
Uruguay is once again weighing the possibility of allowing tourists and non-residents over 18 who visit the South American nation to buy legal cannabis even if they aren’t citizens. The executive director of IRCCA (the Institute for the Regulation and Control of Cannabis), Martín Rodríguez, confirmed that the agency is analyzing this option to strengthen […]