You’ve Got Mail: Are Berlin Drug Dealers Really Leaving Free Samples in Mailboxes?
Berlin police are warning residents after receiving reports that suspected drug samples were being left in residential mailboxes, allegedly in an effort to attract new customers. While only a limited number of cases have been confirmed so far, the incidents highlight how the illegal drug market continues to adopt increasingly sophisticated marketing tactics. Berlin Drug […]
Five Years and $100,000 Later, New York Finally Let Me Sell Weed
After five years, two applications, six figures in expenses, and a maze of shifting rules, one New York cannabis entrepreneur finally secured a retail license—and learned how legalization can still punish the people it was supposed to help. The process to get to this point has been, in a word, farcical. From shifting goalposts to […]
Poker, Soccer, and High Times Go All In
The summer’s biggest cultural stories are not just about winning. They are about pressure, passion, and the strange magic that happens when underground energy meets the main stage. Some summers arrive with a clean storyline. Others show up holding a stack of chips, a half-burned matchbook, and a striker built like a cheat code. This […]
Premo Brings Its Family-First Model to Dover
The independent, Black-owned New Jersey cannabis retailer is opening its second location with a focus on hospitality, community, and a retail experience built to feel less corporate and more personal. Premo is taking its next step in New Jersey cannabis with the opening of Premo Dover, the company’s second retail location and its first expansion […]
The Frank Gallagher Thesis Shaped Welfare For Decades. The Data Just Demolished It.
For decades, governments assumed poor people couldn’t be trusted with unconditional cash. A wave of new evidence says they were wrong. There is a documented phenomenon in the research literature: drug-related hospitalizations spike measurably in the first days of the month, when government disability and welfare checks land. Among SSI recipients with preexisting addictions, within-hospital […]
I Was a Teenage Vegetarian Until the Munchies Hit
“You smoke Marlboro Reds. You can do this too,” my friend Justin wheezed, passing me his glass pipe. I groped around in the dark under the bleachers until I found the lighter, then took a deep breath. At 17, I had finally decided I was ready to get high for the first time. My friends […]
Why the UK’s Next Prime Minister Should Legalise Cannabis
With Britain weeks away from a new Prime Minister, former UK parliamentary adviser James Matthewson argues that the incoming leader, widely expected to be Labour’s Andy Burnham, has a rare chance to be bold: end the war on weed and pour the proceeds into teen mental health. The grass isn’t always greener on the other […]
Hottest Cannabis Strains Right Now 2026: High Times Picks
A running roundup of the hottest flower in legal America, pulled from recent High Times Strains of the Month and Terp Sherpa columns. Each pick is credited to the writer who made it and the month it ran. Listed alphabetically, not ranked. You don’t have to know a guy anymore. Between David Downs’ new Terp […]
What the Supreme Court Weed-and-Guns Ruling Means for People Already Convicted
The Supreme Court just ruled you can’t lose your gun rights for smoking weed. The real test is what happens to the people already locked up under that law. One of them gets out July 15. When the Supreme Court ruled last week that you can’t lose your gun rights just for smoking weed, it […]
What World Cup Stars and ACR Poker Pros Have in Common
When most people think about the FIFA World Cup, they think about moments. The winning goal. The last second save. The eruption of a stadium when a match changes in an instant. When people think about poker, they often imagine similar flashes of drama: a massive bluff, a critical hand, a tournament-clinching moment that changes everything. […]