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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,…

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Dispensaries Are Throwing Real Parties Now. Here’s What Separates a Good One From a Balloon by the Door.

Dispensaries hosted more events in the first six months of 2026 than in all of 2025. What works, what flops…

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‘Hunter S. Thompson Trained Himself to Be Wasted and Proficient’: A Talk With Chloe Sells, the Assistant Who Photographed Owl Farm

She photographed Owl Farm and made Hunter S. Thompson’s breakfast at eleven at night. Twenty years later, Chloe Sells talks…

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Living on the Edge: Terp Basel Is Half Festival, Half Trade Show

Five years in, the Miami gathering shows what happens when cannabis sesh culture grows into something bigger without entirely leaving…

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I Spent My Life Chasing Flavor. Eventually, It Led Me to Weed

Illness kept changing the rules of my life. Tea, whisky, and eventually cannabis became ways of finding something worth chasing…

1 month ago

If ‘Niche’ Is the New ‘Cool,’ Then Pressed Hash Is Ice Cold: A Golden State Hash Report

It’s a great time to be an old-school hash lover. Award-winning journalist David Downs, a contributor to the “Beyond Buds”…

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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…

1 month ago

Tom Forçade Wanted Legitimacy: Inside the Secretive, Paranoid Mind That Created High Times

In 1975, a young freelancer talked his way into a basement in the West Village. The man inside made three…

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TraxNYC Cast a Real Cannabis Nug in Solid Gold. The Flower Vanished. The Shape Didn’t.

A Diamond District jeweler took one of weed culture’s most temporary objects and tried to make it permanent. The finished…

1 month ago

Chain vs. Indy: Which Dispensaries Do People Prefer?

Chains reorder every two weeks and earn twice the discounts. Independents stock the same breadth of product and win on…

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