Inside Brazil’s Deadliest Police Drug Raid: 121 Dead, and Counting
Horrific images are reaching every corner of the world: police violence, chaos, and ever-growing rows of bodies. This is the situation in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which is currently experiencing the largest police operation in its history, with more than 100 confirmed deaths. Drug traffickers and police in Brazil: A bit of […]
Future Of Federal Hemp Laws In Flux Amid Congressional Negotiations, But GOP Senators Say Alternatives To THC Ban Are On The Table
As Congress continues to navigate a path forward on funding legislation to end an ongoing government shutdown, lawmakers are still at work attempting to reach a deal on federal hemp laws—with one GOP senator telling Marijuana Moment that multiple options are on the table, though it will ultimately come down to what leadership wants. While […]
Gun Rights Groups Urge Supreme Court To Combine Cases On Marijuana Consumers’ Second Amendment Rights To Reach Fairer Ruling
A coalition of gun rights organizations is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to expand its examination of the constitutionality of a federal ban on firearm ownership by people who use marijuana—telling justices that a recent case on the issue it accepted would not properly settle the question of the current law’s constitutionality. After the Supreme […]
Legalization Isn’t Justice Until Every Cannabis Prisoner Is Free
Stephanie Shepard is the Acting Executive Director of Last Prisoner Project, where she leads the organization’s national work to free those incarcerated for cannabis offenses and to repair the lasting harms of cannabis criminalization. A powerful advocate for retroactive relief, Stephanie brings both lived experience and deep empathy to her role, turning her own story […]
The Cannabis Industry Is Sleeping On Threat To Repeal Legalization In Maine And Massachusetts (Op-Ed)
“The industry can’t afford to sit this out… National trade groups, operators and investors should help fund and coordinate local opposition now.” By Joanne Caceres and Hannah King, Dentons Two under-the-radar signature drives in New England could become the biggest political test for cannabis legalization in a decade—and the industry is largely ignoring them. In […]
Watch the Trailer for ‘Don’t Be A Clown’: A Sharp, Twisted Take on Cannabis Culture
The first look at Don’t Be A Clown just landed. Watch it on High Times’ YouTube, then circle December 1 for the full short film. High Times has teamed up with Official Cannabis Seed Company on the project from filmmaker Dan Levy Dagerman, founder of High Concept Entertainment and the mind behind You, Me & […]
Ohio Senate Rejects House Changes To Bill Scaling Back Voter-Approved Marijuana Law And Restricting Hemp Sales
An Ohio bill to significantly revise the state’s marijuana program, while adding new restrictions to the hemp market, has hit a roadblock—with the Senate soundly rejecting the latest amended version that advanced out of the House. The legislation from Sen. Stephen Huffman (R) first passed the Senate in February before reaching the House floor last […]
The Legal Weed Meltdown Ontario Doesn’t Want You to See
Ontario’s legal cannabis market is moving more product than ever, but selling it is becoming a losing game for many shop owners. New data from the Ontario Cannabis Store’s 2024 By the Numbers report shows a record-breaking $2.15 billion in retail sales, an 11% increase from 2023, with nearly 409 million grams of tested flower […]
Indigenous Cannabis Leaders Head to D.C. for National Policy Summit
As legalization debates heat up in Washington, a different kind of summit is taking the spotlight this November — one led entirely by Indigenous voices. The Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association (ICIA) will host its fourth annual National Indigenous Cannabis Policy Summit from November 11–13 in Washington, D.C., during Native American Heritage Month. The three-day gathering […]
Does Self-Medicating with Cannabis Raise Paranoia? The Real Issue Is How Studies Get Weaponized
There are two stories behind why people start using cannabis: for fun, or to ease the mind. A new paper from King’s College London, published in BMJ Mental Health, says those two starting points are linked to different mental-health trajectories. But I think we need to do some debunking here. For starters, it isn’t the […]