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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…

1 day 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…

2 days 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…

3 weeks 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…

4 weeks 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,…

1 month 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…

2 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,…

3 months ago

Why Legal Cannabis Doesn’t Belong Next to Gambling and Porn

This article was originally published by Cultivated and is republished here with permission. Legal cannabis may carry risks. But treating…

4 months ago

Light It Up: Why NORML Still Matters in the 21st Century

Let’s be real: cannabis culture in 2026 looks nothing like it did even a decade ago. Dispensaries are everywhere, billion-dollar…

5 months ago