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 […]
Kristen Stewart, Psychedelics, Talking Cats, and Queer Science: The Wrong Girls Could Be This Year’s Most Promising Stoner Comedy
A case of mistaken identity and an experimental psychedelic compound give two best friends telepathic powers, setting off a bizarre chain of events involving talking cats and Danish scientists. Blending absurd humor, queer storytelling, and sci-fi elements, the film is set to hit theaters on August 14, 2026. What happens if you mix Kristen Stewart, […]
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 […]
MMJ Fights to Undo Marijuana Rescheduling After Years Battling the DEA
A drug company spent nearly eight years fighting the DEA to make cannabis medicine the hard way. Now that everyone else is getting an easier path, it’s in court trying to undo the whole thing, a move that could send cannabis back to Schedule I for the entire industry. MMJ International Holdings spent nearly eight […]
Baudelaire Smoked Hash With Victor Hugo. A Hundred Years Later, His Country Banned It. A Hundred Years After That, Europe Is Smoking Again.
This article originally appeared in High Times’ 50th Anniversary print issue. It has been updated to reflect the Czech Republic’s January 1, 2026 cannabis legalization taking effect and the January 27, 2026 European Court of Justice ruling against Hungary on cannabis rescheduling. Get the print edition here. Paris, Marseille, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin. Europe’s cannabis capital […]
Twenty-One Years Later, Conor Oberst Is More Wide Awake Than Ever
As Bright Eyes revisits its landmark albums with a Woodstock cannabis collaboration, Conor Oberst reflects on sobriety, survival, and staying human. For a certain kind of person, I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning was not just an album. It was survival literature. It lived in burned CD binders, scratched iPods, shitty car stereos, headphones worn during […]
Terence McKenna’s Daughter Has Been Paying for a Storage Unit in Hawaii for 25 Years. She Just Opened It.
A quarter-century after Terence McKenna’s death, his daughter Klea McKenna is building the archive his legacy deserves — and confronting a storage unit she hadn’t opened in 25 years. The late Terence McKenna isn’t easy to categorise. A lecturer, author, ethnobotanist, philosopher and High Times cover alumnus, McKenna was a defining voice of the psychedelic […]