Culture

High Times Centerfold Photographer Lelen Ruete Turns the Magazine’s Imagery into a Living Experience

The artist behind one of the most striking photo series in High Times’ 50th Anniversary Issue is bringing her vision…

6 months ago

How I Got You Your Ounce: Inside New York’s Apartment-Dealer Era

In How I Got You Your Ounce, a memoir published in 2025 by BookBaby, a self-described “apartment dealer” known as…

6 months ago

The Torch Keeps Burning: Glassblowers in Appalachia after Hurricane Helene

Following the first anniversary of Hurricane Helene, I found myself driving the same winding backroads I did last October, retracing…

7 months ago

‘ESPN Meets Cannabis’: Inside Proper Smoke Network and the Rise of the Connoisseur Era

For a long time, cannabis culture lived off the grid. Quiet. Misread. Filtered through people who never rolled it, grew…

7 months ago

Bad Bunny, Weed, the Super Bowl and the Evolution of American Identity

Every year, the Super Bowl tries to show us what we think we look like. Flags, fireworks, familiar faces. But…

7 months ago

What If Barstool and Vice Hotboxed a Studio? Proper Smoke Network by First Smoke x Proper Doinks Has Arrived

For a long time, cannabis culture lived off the grid. Quiet. Misread. Filtered through people who never rolled it, grew…

7 months ago

Weed, Punk, and the Outlaw Who Accidentally Built Coachella

April 18th, 1977. Hollywood, CA. There was something foul and electric in the air that Monday night at the Starwood.…

7 months ago

Ganja & the Gold Rush: What Levi Strauss Can Teach Us About Craft and Cannabis

Entirely by chance, my father is buried just a few rows away from Levi Strauss, the man whose name is…

7 months ago

Unexpected Pleasures of Weed: The Strain That Turned My Husband Into a Clean Freak

Dan and I have been married for over 20 years, and we have always maintained a very simple domestic arrangement.…

7 months ago

Jews in Weed: Building Community, One Bagel at a Time

At any major cannabis event these days, there is a new kind of gathering that starts before the panels, before…

7 months ago