Regenerative Cannabis Farming: Living Soil, Sun-Grown Weed and No Federal Help
Sun-grown cannabis, living soil, and the growers building a regenerative future while federal money flows everywhere but their fields This past June, President Trump signed an executive order expanding a pilot program the USDA had already funded, routed through conservation programs like EQIP and the Conservation Stewardship Program, which pays farmers for building soil health. […]
A Plane Dropped 300 Feet. The Pilot Tested Positive for Weed. Almost Nobody Mentioned He Wasn’t the One Flying It.
Headlines around the world tied a captain’s positive marijuana test to a terrifying midair plunge. He wasn’t the one flying. The first officer was at the controls, and Airbus says the aircraft registered pressure losses across all three hydraulic systems and that key flight controls stopped responding for four seconds. Every one of those headlines […]
Australia Bans ‘Halloween’ Video Game Over Weed, Not Its Brutal Violence
Gore, Michael Myers, lots of blood, brutal deaths, torture. So far, so good. But… weed? In a game that kids could play? That’s crossing the line. At least that seems to be the reason why Halloween: The Game, the new survival horror game developed by IllFonic and scheduled for release on September 8, 2026, was […]
Flock Cameras and Cannabis: Police Are Tracking Trips to Legal Weed States
By Javier Hasse and Camila Berriex Wisconsin police used a nationwide camera network to reconstruct one man’s trips to Michigan, then cited those trips in the case they built to search his car for weed. In one California town, the same company’s cameras got the plate wrong in 71% of the alerts they sent to […]
Vernell Varnado on Panama Red, Vietnam and 60 Years of Weed
From his first joint overlooking San Francisco to “happy smoke” in Vietnam, backyard plants in Inglewood, postal routes, Amsterdam coffeeshops and today’s legal dispensaries, Vernell “Papa Snoop” Varnado has lived through nearly every era of modern American cannabis culture. Vernell Varnado remembers the date he arrived in California. “August 28, 1966,” he says. He had […]
New York to Allow Weed Sales at Farmers Markets, Giving Small Growers a Fighting Chance
New York has expanded access to Cannabis Showcase Events, giving licensed microbusinesses more ways to participate in temporary markets and reach consumers beyond traditional dispensaries. The change creates new opportunities for small operators, although events remain tightly regulated and growers still face the broader challenges of cost, competition, and compliance. Buying vegetables, artisanal cheese, and […]
Rick Ross Doesn’t Want Dispensary Weed
He smokes in boardrooms, but he’s still on that underground frequency. This content originally appeared in the High Times Spring/Summer 2026 print issue. Get yours here. “You’ve taken control of your life when you decide when, where, and what you smoke,” Rick Ross says. Not posturing, not flexing. Just his take on success. A measurement […]
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 […]