The Generational Flip: Are Teens Ditching Weed While Seniors Are Using More? What the Latest US Data Shows
Cannabis use among U.S. teens has declined substantially even as adult-use legalization has expanded, challenging predictions that regulated markets would necessarily drive higher consumption among young people. Meanwhile, national data show cannabis use rising among adults 65 and older, while a recent New York City study highlights both the reasons seniors are using it and […]
Weed Prices by State 2026: What an Eighth Costs and Why
An eighth costs $15.31 in Washington and $51.63 in Kentucky. Thirteen months of register data across 36 states points at one variable, and it isn’t whether the state calls itself medical or recreational. Trans-High Market Quotations is live, and this is the first full read of it: thirteen months of retail flower prices, August 2025 […]
Texas Delta-8 Felony: One Gummy vs. an Ounce of Weed
A single four-gram delta-8 gummy can now expose its owner to a felony bracket that runs to twenty years, because Texas counts the whole edible toward its weight. An ounce of marijuana is still a misdemeanor. And the delta-9 gummies still on the shelf survive on a technicality that federal law is about to erase. […]
Can Weed Feel Like Magic Mushrooms? Johns Hopkins Researchers Put THC to the Test
A four-person Johns Hopkins pilot study found that 25 mg of oral THC could produce altered-state profiles that qualitatively resembled those seen with 25 mg of psilocybin, particularly when consumed in a setting modeled on psychedelic research. The sample is far too small to establish cannabis as a psychedelic, but the findings add to earlier […]
High Times THMQ Weed Price Tracker Is Back Online
High Times started printing weed prices in 1974 so buyers would stop getting fleeced by people who knew the going rate. Trans-High Market Quotations is now a live index at index.hightimes.com, and we want your numbers next. You Can Chip In (Please Do) The Index In the summer of 1974, High Times magazine, under the […]
In 40 Years, MAPS Partnered With Universities, Clinicians and the Pentagon. It Just Signed Its First Deal With a Weed Shop.
MAPS has spent four decades running clinical trials, lobbying regulators and building the case for psychedelic medicine. It had never partnered with a cannabis company until now. Cannabis and psychedelics have spent most of the last two decades in adjacent rooms with the door closed. Same prohibition, same schedule, largely the same argument, and almost […]
$10 Million Meant for Florida’s Children’s Health Care Was Misappropriated to Help Kill Legal Weed, Grand Jury Finds
A Leon County grand jury concluded the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million owed to a children’s health program and that the money was moved “as part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities,” most of it into the committee fighting marijuana legalization. No one was charged: the grand jury said it lacked sufficient evidence, […]
Weed Can’t Get Past 34%. The Labels Go to 42%. The System Rewards the Lie.
A Spanish engineer who has spent sixteen years scanning flower explains how the industry got here — and what it would take to get out. In November 2024, Justin Singer, CEO of the Denver edibles manufacturer Ripple, got fed up with the lack of control over the industry he himself participates in and sent staff […]
The Record That Decides Whether Weed Leaves Schedule I Just Needed 294 Corrections. A Few Reversed What Witnesses Said.
Part V of our coverage of the federal rescheduling case. Part IV covered the post-hearing briefs. The Corrections That Changed the Meaning Why It Matters, and How Much 294 fixes across 2,533 pages is roughly one every nine pages, and most are spelling and speaker names. A handful did something else: they changed the meaning, […]