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After the Green Rush: The Sungrown Holdouts of Northern California

This article originally appeared in High Times Magazine’s 50th Anniversary Print Issue. Order yours here and get it delivered to…

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Operation Green Merchant: The Morning the Drug War Kissed Its Own Reflection

How a nationwide DEA dragnet in 1989 turned garden shops into crime scenes, and taught the War on Drugs to…

4 months ago

People Are Getting Their AI High: Paying to ‘Alter’ Chatbot’s Consciousness

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has reached a level of everyday intimacy where it’s starting to feel like a friend. We argue…

4 months ago

The Clock Saved Me: A Reckoning with Juvenile Injustice

Locked In, Looking Out They passed around the pencils and asked a simple question: Who do you look up to,…

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The Untold Story of Bolivia’s ‘Pipe Bench,’ a Lost Landmark of Communal 420 Culture

On occasion, geography offers up some profoundly useful glitches. Other times, with skill and ingenuity, humankind turns that geography into…

4 months ago

Charcoal Filters Are for Suckers

Charcoal filters have quietly become one of the most successful products in modern cannabis culture. They look scientific, they promise…

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Gang Starr’s Guru Quit Smoking Weed And Didn’t Like His Friends Anymore. Ice-T Explains Why

“I stopped smoking and realized I didn’t like my friends.” The line allegedly belongs to the late Guru of Gang…

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The Last Days of the Hemp Era

How a Legal Loophole Rewired America’s Cannabis Industry and Why Its Collapse Will Change Cannabis Forever For six years, the…

4 months ago

Rebuilding Trust in Pre-Rolls: Why Certification Matters More Than Ever

Walk into any dispensary today and ask for a pre-roll, and you’ll get a dozen different options, each promising something…

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