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 […]
Psychedelic Decriminalization Support Flat For Two Years, UC Berkeley Survey Finds
Voter support for psychedelic research, therapy and prescription access all surged. Decrim didn’t move. A new Berkeley survey says it out loud. The Short Version Voter support for psychedelic research jumped 14 points to 63% in two years. Support for prescription-medicine access climbed 12. Therapeutic-use legalization rose 10. Decriminalization moved a statistically insignificant one point. […]
Mexico’s Congress Has Had Four Years to Pass a Cannabis Law. 15,000 People Just Ran Out of Patience.
By Luis Fernando Campos — Educannabis On May 2nd, the Global March for Cannabis Decriminalization hit Mexico City, Medellín and Santiago at the same time. A firsthand chronicle from the street. On May 2nd, Paseo de la Reforma stopped being the avenue of political agreements and became something far more uncomfortable for those in power: […]