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The Highest Mayor in Cannabis

How weed, music, and the mountains shaped my life—and put me in office. I didn’t set out to become a…

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Counter Culture: The Tip Jar at Your Dispensary Has a Problem. Several, Actually.

From tip fatigue to tip theft, the humble dispensary tip jar has become a window into some of the cannabis…

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Kal Penn Knows Exactly Why People Keep Offering Him Weed

Twenty years after Harold & Kumar, the actor talks to High Times about meeting Cheech for the first time, the…

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What Happens When Cannabis Magazines are Too Scandalous for Dispensaries?

Fat Nugs Magazine’s Kids and Cannabis issue tackled a tough but necessary conversation. A partner dispensary refused to carry it.…

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Cannabis Through the Ages: What Humanity Knew for Millennia — and What Prohibition Made Us Forget

The drug’s history of healing and experimentation stretches from ancient China to American counterculture — yet its promise remains trapped…

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The Extinction of the Real: How Traditional Hashish Vanished While the Modern Market Looked Away

Imported hashish sustained mountain economies for centuries—until modern legalization and market economics erased it almost overnight. Traditional imported hashish—hand-rubbed Nepali…

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Rosin, Raids and Risk: Spain’s New Cannabis Frontier

From home labs and deadly butane blasts to solventless rosin, police raids, and a legal gray zone, Spain is entering…

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Georgia’s Forgotten Stoner Food: Inside the Lost Cannabis Cuisine of the Caucasus

The European country of Georgia has a distinct landscape. The Svaneti province is evidence of this; its mountain peaks are…

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Clean Label Cannabis: Returning to the Plant That Started It All

As we all know, cannabis is a plant. But many cannabis products aren’t. That might sound obvious, but if you…

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B-Real and Xzibit on Brick Weed, Backwoods and Why They Still ‘Rap Circles’ Around Younger Rappers

B-Real, Xzibit and Demrick have spent decades around rap and weed. On “This Thing of Ours,” the Serial Killers trio…

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