Sharon Stone Reveals Why She Quit Weed: ‘They Put So Much Stuff in It Now’
Sharon Stone says she quit cannabis after years of using it to cope with seizures and other neurological effects of the stroke she suffered in 2001. She now presents both that decision and her efforts to reduce her medications as part of a broader attempt to reclaim control of her life. Sharon Stone had been […]
The Weed I Smuggled in 1974 Kept Showing Up in High Times Centerfolds. It Took Me a Year to Figure Out Why.
This article originally appeared in High Times’ 50th Anniversary print issue. Get yours here. Cannabis movement pioneer Steve DeAngelo on the night the first High Times arrived at Yippie headquarters in 1974, the Colombian Gold and Thai sticks he was smuggling at the time and how the magazine kept publishing pictures of the loads he […]
Texas Built a Weed Market Without Legalizing Weed
Texas still prohibits adult-use marijuana, but hemp legalization, a restricted medical program, and uneven enforcement have created an active market, hiding in plain sight. Texas has not legalized adult-use cannabis. It has, however, spent the past several years creating conditions in which a person can walk by “Free Weed” signs into a store, buy an […]
Watch: In New York, You Can Smoke Weed in Front of a Police Station. The World Cup Just Brought the Whole Planet to Find Out.
Ethan Zohn was diagnosed with cancer in New York and found cannabis there before the state made it legal. He went back for the World Cup and found a city where the rest of the world is discovering you can just walk in and buy it. The World Cup brought the planet to New York. […]
‘It Feels Like 2016 Again’: A Week in Germany Reminded the Weed Industry (and Berner) How to Have Fun
Mary Jane Berlin brought tens of thousands of people into one building and reminded them why they fell for this plant. Then came the other side of Germany’s cannabis story, a pharmaceutical grow so strict it took half an hour of biosecurity just to reach the plants, and a castle where the industry felt like […]
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 […]
Krayzie Bone Nearly Died, Put the Weed Down, and Found a New Purpose. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Are Back.
Three years after a ruptured artery in his lung nearly killed him, Krayzie Bone is back with a renewed sense of purpose, a new Bone Thugs-n-Harmony album in the works, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star on the way, and, notably, no weed in his life anymore. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony are one of the only rap […]
Muck Sticky Has Worn Pajamas For 24 Years. He Says Weed And Comfort Are The Last Real Freedom.
Muck Sticky, the Memphis rapper who has lived in pajamas for 24 years, opens up about weed, creativity and radical self-acceptance. As he prepares to launch his own cannabis brand, the independent artist reflects on comfort and resisting a culture obsessed with productivity. In a world seemingly governed by algorithmic cynicism, the mind-numbing laconicism of […]
Weed Doesn’t Make You Creative. It Just Gets Out of the Way
Cannabis doesn’t give you talent you don’t already have. A psychiatrist specializing in cannabis and entheogens breaks down what THC actually does to the creative brain — and why the myth of the green muse is more complicated than it looks. The myth of the green muse has coasted through history, dodging potholes between the […]
Thailand Just Made It A Lot Harder To Sell Weed.
Thailand has issued new enforcement guidelines for cannabis businesses, introducing license suspensions, possible revocations, stricter reporting rules, and tighter controls around prescriptions, advertising, online sales, and on-site use. The move signals a continued shift away from the country’s post-2022 cannabis boom toward a more controlled medical framework with heavier state oversight. Thailand has moved the […]