[Watch] Josh Kesselman on Rebuilding High Times: ‘This Is Not a Money-Making Op’
On the Senior Savvy Cannabis podcast, the RAW founder and High Times owner talks about rebuilding the magazine, bringing back the Cannabis Cup and why he wants every grower to stock up on seeds before Dec. 11. When word got out that Josh Kesselman had bought High Times, investors started calling. The RAW founder offered […]
High Times x Sensi Seeds: High Times Launches Its First Seed Line
Sensi Seeds, a regular on the Cannabis Cup winners’ list, bred High Times’ first line of seeds: five feminized strains that pair Sensi classics with genetics American growers love. For more than five decades, High Times has written about other people’s weed. Since 1988, it has also judged it, handing out Cannabis Cups to breeders, […]
How We Made High Times’ First Spanish-Language Print Issue: The Full Editor’s Letter
For the first time in its 52-year history, High Times has published a print edition made from scratch in Spanish. In the magazine, my editor’s letter ran shorter. Paper is a tyrant, and a five-page editor’s letter won’t fit. But making the first print High Times in Spanish is one of the things that has […]
High Times Medical Cannabis Cup Puerto Rico 2026: Farruko, Jon Z, Fab 5 Freddy
Ten years into its medical program, the island moves close to $200 million a year in legal cannabis sales. On December 5, it hosts its first High Times Medical Cannabis Cup in Old San Juan, with Farruko, Jon Z, Fab 5 Freddy and Cimafunk. Ask most people to name the biggest legal cannabis market in […]
High Times Medical Cannabis Cup Argentina 2026: All the Winners
From award-winning flower and concentrates to live glassblowing, a sold-out celebration in Buenos Aires marked two major milestones for High Times in Latin America. Here are all the winners. Argentina has its first High Times Cannabis Cup champions. On Friday, October 23, a sold-out crowd packed Güid Club in Olivos, just outside Buenos Aires, for […]
Doubling The Amount Of THC In Marijuana Doesn’t Get You Twice As High, New Study Shows (Op-Ed)
“The high rises quickly at low doses, but extra THC soon adds less and less, which backs the advice to start low and go slow.” By Isabella Goodwin, Australian Catholic University and Amir Englund, King’s College London via The Conversation Cannabis products are getting more potent and easier to buy around the world. Yet little […]
High Times Strains of the Month: October 2026
Award-winning cannabis journalist and best-selling author David Downs highlights the hottest flowers blazing up the charts in legal U.S. states for the start of fall. It’s his (mostly) monthly column, dubbed “Terp Sherpa.” Costumes and candy are for babies. There’s a special kind of flower overflowing our cornucopias each October. Spoiler: It’s weed! Your humble […]
De La Soul on ‘Stakes Is High’ at 30, Weed and Contact Highs
Thirty years after Stakes Is High, Posdnous and Maseo look back at the album that almost didn’t happen and talk about weed: one of them has loved it unconditionally for 30 years, and the other only gets contact highs, most recently from B-Real. Posdnous and Maseo of De La Soul may be polar opposites when […]
Police Would Rather Deal With People High On Marijuana Than Drunk On Alcohol, Iowa Governor Candidate Says
The Democratic Party’s nominee for Iowa governor is continuing to call for marijuana legalization, saying in a debate with his GOP opponent that the reform would make law enforcement’s job easier while also raising revenue to help fund education. “If we tax cannabis the way we tax alcohol and treat it the way we treat […]
The Great Outdoors Just Got Higher: One in Three Hikers Has Hit the Trail High on Weed
A new survey conducted in September among 1,008 U.S. adults interested in hiking and camping found that 35% had gone hiking while high on cannabis, while 44% had done so after using at least one substance. The reasons vary from enjoying the scenery and feeling closer to nature to relaxing and overcoming fears, although most […]


