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High Times And Last Prisoner Project Launch Ongoing Partnership To Fight For Cannabis Prisoners

The new partnership will spotlight the stories of people still behind bars for cannabis, support clemency and reentry efforts, and turn 4/20 into a call to action for the people legalization left behind. High Times and Last Prisoner Project are launching an ongoing partnership focused on one of the cannabis movement’s clearest unfinished fights: bringing […]

Jimmy Kimmel Made a Hulu Doc About High Times, But It’s Really About Free Speech, Its Director Says

Hulu’s new 4/20 anthology series includes a documentary on High Times and its founder. Director Kyle Thrash tells High Times why he came looking for a human story, not a nostalgia piece, and found one that still feels unresolved. Dana Beal is 78 years old, standing in a courtroom in Gooding County, Idaho, facing a […]

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 […]

High Times Cannabis Cup Hits Atlantic City, NJ: Beanie Sigel, Smoke DZA and New Jersey’s Best Weed All on One Stage

New Jersey is getting its first-ever Cannabis Cup. One night, one city, one stage. May 1 at Steel Pier in Atlantic City. The High Times Cannabis Cup Awards Presented by Honey Grove lands in New Jersey for the first time, turning Atlantic City’s Steel Pier into a one-night celebration of the state’s best cannabis, biggest […]

High Times Cup Winner 6 Point Cannabis

For Craig Palmer, ending up in High Times still feels slightly unreal. He’s been reading the magazine since he was a teenager. Now, after placing in the first official High Times New York Cannabis Cup, he’s part of the story instead of just flipping through it. Palmer isn’t a newcomer riding legalization hype. He’s been […]

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 […]

Scarlett Johansson On Her First Concert Ever (It Was Cypress Hill And She Was Super High)

Everyone knows Scarlett Johansson. The prolific actress has been captivating audiences on screen for decades, starring in some of the most iconic films of our time. But perhaps not everyone knows details of her personal life, such as the fact that she has a twin brother and two goldfish named Jingles and Bubbles. These were […]

Weed’s Most Detail-Obsessed Smokers Just Linked Up With High Times

Proper Doinks, the connoisseur-driven platform behind the Proper Smoke League and High Rollers bracket, is teaming up with High Times for a series of collaborations including future Cannabis Cup activations. Proper Doinks did not become influential by being loud. It became influential by being precise. What started as two neighbors in Northern California smoking together […]

Too High To Thrive: Excessive Cannabis Taxes Are Undermining Legal Markets (Op-Ed)

“Higher taxes do not eliminate consumer demand. They simply change where consumers buy their cannabis.” By Rodney Holcombe, LeafLink In recent piece, The New York Times editorial board called for a federal tax on cannabis and urged states to raise their own taxes to “dollars per joint, not cents.” That argument assumes cannabis is lightly […]

[Watch] High Times’ New Travel Series Goes From Mallorca’s Underground To Portugal’s Cannabis Boom

Produced with Matca Films, the new High Times Travel Series opens with two very different stops: a discreet cannabis club culture shaped by island rhythm and neighborhood respect in Mallorca, and a fast-growing medical cannabis infrastructure boom just outside Lisbon. High Times has a new travel series on YouTube, and the smart thing about it […]

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