Legal Weed Left the Bong Makers Behind
The federal paraphernalia statute that helped send Jerome Baker Designs founder Jason Harris to jail is still on the books. Twenty years later, he is relaunching in New York anyway. In 2003, John Ashcroft went on national television to announce that the federal government had just targeted the functional glass industry. Jason Harris watched it […]
Legal Weed, Unequal Justice: Mary Bailey’s Fight to Free Cannabis Prisoners
The Last Prisoner Project co-founder and 2025 DOPE Award winner’s fight for freedom Mary Bailey stays in motion. The event organizer, activist, and managing director of Last Prisoner Project runs a relentless schedule. From picking up newly released cannabis prisoners to producing the Hawaii Cannabis Conference in Honolulu, Bailey is constantly on the go—and that’s […]
Massachusetts Could Become The First State To Repeal Legal Weed. The Community Is Fighting Back.
A November ballot question backed by Smart Approaches to Marijuana would shut down the state’s $1.6 billion adult-use market, end home grow and put an estimated 27,000 jobs at risk. Massachusetts would be the first state in the country to undo a regulated cannabis program through a voter referendum. Massachusetts could become the first state […]
Jadakiss Smoked With Biggie, Dodged Cops For Sour Diesel and Lived To See Legal Weed In Harlem
The LOX legend and Dynasty Commodities co-founder Rich Jospitre talk to High Times about Biggie sessions, Sour, Haze, Harlem ownership and the long road from dimes and dubs to marble walls. There was liquid hash. Mason jars. Cognac. A room full of people getting impossibly high. Notorious B.I.G. was there. Jason Phillips, better known as […]
Buddhist Monks Caught Smuggling $3.6M in Weed Through Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan authorities arrested 22 individuals after uncovering a sophisticated cannabis trafficking operation involving Buddhist monks carrying over 220 pounds of weed hidden under their robes. The case raises questions about recruitment tactics, deception, and the exploitation of religious trust in organized drug networks. Buddhist monks with pounds and pounds of weed, carefully distributed under […]
Hidden in the Rescheduling Order: Could the DEA Become the Nation’s Biggest Weed Dealer?
This article originally appeared on IgniteIt and is republished here with permission. The Trump administration’s rescheduling order contains a little-noticed provision requiring the DEA to buy and resell state-legal medical cannabis. Attorneys say it’s bizarre. Operators say it’s a threat to small businesses. Nobody knows exactly how it works yet. The Trump administration’s cannabis rescheduling […]
Kal Penn Knows Exactly Why People Keep Offering Him Weed
Twenty years after Harold & Kumar, the actor talks to High Times about meeting Cheech for the first time, the strain deal he never got and what a Jimmy John’s sandwich campaign says about where cannabis culture actually is right now. Nobody offers Anthony Hopkins free meat. “People aren’t like, ‘Oh, I saw Silence of […]