Your Weed Seeds Could Become Federal Contraband on Dec. 11, Even If They Barely Contain THC.
From December 11, a cannabis seed’s legal status depends on the THC of the plant it came from. Seed banks are moving US orders offshore, breeders are turning to clones and tissue culture, and home growers in states without legal weed may have the hardest time adjusting. In October, Herbies, an online seed marketplace that […]
Buying Weed Used to Mean Hanging Out With Your Dealer. Now It’s Just Retail.
Hawaii grower Aaron Zeeman documented 144 rituals of the prohibition era, from coded phone calls to papaya-stem pipes. He says legalization is retiring the ones built to hide, and he wonders what the culture loses along the way. Nobody ducked into the dealer’s house, bought and left, Aaron Zeeman remembers. That looked suspicious. So in […]
Your Weed Smell Says More About Your Bank Account Than You Think
In America, the smell of a joint can mean a citation, an eviction or nothing at all. It depends on who’s holding it. The smell of weed has never been neutral. It has always had a starting point. A “depends how,” a “depends when” and, fundamentally, a “depends who.” On the urban map of the […]
DeSantis Blames Epstein, Stock Trading and Trans Ads for the GOP’s Midterm ‘Extinction-Level Event.’ Anything but Weed.
DeSantis blamed Epstein, stock trading and trans-focused ads for the GOP’s midterm beating. He didn’t mention the plant. Texas has some notes. Ron DeSantis has a theory about why Republicans got crushed on Tuesday. It covers a lot of ground. Weed isn’t part of it. At a press conference in Tallahassee on Wednesday, the term-limited […]
The Midterms Were Very Good for Legal Weed. Here’s Everything That Changed.
Massachusetts voters refused to undo legal weed, Idaho voters kept their power to legalize it and Texas rejected both Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton. Here’s what changed on election night and what it could mean next year. For the first time, a state asked voters whether they wanted to take legal weed back. Massachusetts answered […]
Khalifa Kush at 10: How Wiz Khalifa’s Cannabis Brand Outlasted the Celebrity Weed Boom
A decade after celebrity cannabis became one of the industry’s easiest cash grabs, Khalifa Kush is still standing: lean, privately controlled and built by longtime Pittsburgh friends who turned Wiz Khalifa’s personal strain into one of the most durable brands in weed. This article originally appeared in High Times’ Summer/Fall 2026 print edition. Get yours […]
Daniel Sloss on Quitting Cannabis: ‘There’s Something Really Lame About Being Addicted to Weed’
Daniel Sloss opens up about quitting weed after years of what he describes as addiction, explaining how it affected his anxiety, fatherhood, relationships and sense of self. Through therapy and sobriety, he says he has come to see cannabis as something he still loves but currently cannot have a healthy relationship with. ‘The Greatest Thrill […]
Trump Calls Bill Maher a ‘Major Pothead’ and Says Weed Is ‘Very Bad’ for His Health
Just days after praising their latest White House dinner, Trump turned on the comedian over his cannabis use, adding another twist to his complicated relationship with marijuana. Donald Trump has a message for Bill Maher: put down the weed. In an unusually lengthy Truth Social post on Sunday, October 25, the U.S. president launched into […]
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 […]
Wiz Khalifa Interview: Weed, Fitness, Khalifa Kush and Quitting Alcohol
Ten years after his last High Times cover, Wiz Khalifa still smokes every day, still works like hell and has no interest in playing anybody’s idea of a stoner. The difference now is the discipline underneath it. This article originally appeared in High Times’ Summer/Fall 2026 print edition. Get yours here. Photos by Joyce Charat […]