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Federal Cannabis Sentencing Gave Her 8 Years. She Has Missed Her Son’s First Steps, First Christmas, First Birthday.

Yasquasia Delcarmen was remanded into custody the day her federal sentence came down. Her son was 11 months old. She…

2 weeks ago

Better Call Saul: Weed Is Legal Here, Illegal There. These Lawyers Live in the Gap.

Cannabis lawyers operate in a legal world full of contradictions, where state permission, federal prohibition, tax burdens, weak trademark protections,…

2 weeks ago

90% of Americans Want Legal Weed. Lawmakers in Both Parties Keep Punishing Them for It.

From South Dakota to Michigan, red states are trying to overturn legalization votes and blue states are taxing the market…

3 weeks ago

The Case That Just Blocked Trump’s Press Ban Started With High Times’ Founder and a Pie

In 1970, Tom Forçade put a pie in a federal commissioner’s face. When the government was finally pressed to explain…

3 weeks ago

India Was Forced to Outlaw Cannabis. I Think It’s Time to Undo That Mistake.

I’ve spent more than 50 years fighting cannabis prohibition in the United States. Now I’m taking what I’ve learned to…

1 month ago

$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…

1 month ago

Sonoma County Sent Drones to Find Illegal Weed. Keni Meyer Lost Her Home Over Building-Code Violations Unrelated to Cannabis.

The violations had nothing to do with cannabis. Neither did nearly half the drone flights Sonoma County made in 2024,…

2 months ago

We Legalized Weed… So Why Does It Still Feel Broken?

This article originally appeared in High Times’ Spring/Summer 2026 print edition. Get yours here. Activists, investors, lawyers, growers and a…

3 months ago

The Weed Moral Panic Afroman Mocked in 2001 Is Back. His Song Aged Into a Weapon.

Rolling Stone just told the story of how Afroman turned a botched police raid into a viral hit and a…

3 months ago

Never Mind Manchesterism, Britain’s Next PM Should Consider Marijuanaism

With Britain weeks away from a new Prime Minister, former UK parliamentary adviser James Matthewson argues that the incoming leader,…

4 months ago