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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…

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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…

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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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One of the ‘Mormon Wives’ Chooses Cannabis: Here’s What the Church Actually Says

Mormon Wives star Mikayla Matthews says medical cannabis was “literally life-changing” for her nerve pain and sleep, bringing weed into…

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In 1968 I Faced 70 Years for Giving Away Joints. Fifty-Five Years Later, I Paid $32.16 at the Counter.

In 1968, a few joints I gave away left me facing the possibility of decades in prison. More than half…

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The Cold Stops the Clock: How Fresh Frozen Cannabis Becomes Live Rosin

For one hash maker the clock starts at harvest, and the flower is in the freezer within thirty minutes. A…

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A Magazine From 1969 Made the Case the DEA Is Making Now. It Also Named the People Who Would Spend 57 Years Stalling.

Five years before High Times existed, a fifty-cent magazine out of a Buffalo dorm room made the exact argument the…

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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…

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‘They Used It as a Weapon Against My Father’: Fela Kuti’s Sons on Weed and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Fela Kuti smoked ritually and said so publicly. The Nigerian state used it to call his politics ridiculous. Ahead of…

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