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EXCLUSIVE: Cheech & Chong’s Cannabis Co. Plans 100 Branded Stores in 18 Months: ‘We Don’t Need To Be an MSO’

When I spoke with Cheech & Chong’s team in 2025, the tone leaned more toward business planning than cultural throwback,…

7 months ago

Buy Low, Stay High: Dispensaries Are Selling for Pennies on the Dollar

For years, getting into the cannabis industry was a high-stakes game reserved for the well-capitalized. Entrepreneurs shelled out millions for…

7 months ago

Why Does ‘Nothingness’ Hit After the Party? Inside the Existential Hangover of the Post-Rager Crash

As gravity dictates, whatever goes up must come down. During parties, we expose our bodies to an avalanche of stimuli…

7 months ago

Corporate Smackdown: How WWE Punished Its Rebels

There’s an argument to be made that people in counter-culture are actually the normal ones—the ones who “keep it real”…

7 months ago

Everyone’s Cashing In on Legal Weed—Except America

As cannabis becomes a regulated global commodity—spanning pharma, exports and healthcare—the U.S. risks falling behind. While other regions advance professionalized,…

7 months ago

What Happens When a Cannabis Giant Absorbs a Cult Nursery? ‘If We’d Stayed Independent, We Might Not Be Here At All’

There’s a saying in economics that sums up consolidation: big fish eat little fish. It can be bitter, but you…

7 months ago

Opinion: Cannabis Is a Nutraceutical, Not a Pharmaceutical — and Why Descheduling Remains the Only Real Path Forward

For decades, cannabis has been trapped in a political purgatory, classified, vilified, and regulated as if it were a dangerous,…

7 months ago

Freedom Fighter of the Month: The Cop Who Broke With the Drug War — and Is Now Suing the U.S. Government Over Gun Rights

Editors’ Note: “Freedom Fighter of the Month” has long been a popular feature in High Times magazine, dating back to…

7 months ago

Nature’s Nootropics: How Cannabis and Mushrooms Are Helping Dogs Fight Dementia

When a 14-year-old rescue named Miss Daisie began standing over her water bowl and forgetting how to drink, Angela Ardolino…

7 months ago

States Are Already Rebelling Against Trump’s New Hemp THC Ban

Trump’s shutdown deal quietly recriminalizes most hemp-derived THC products next year, capping them at 0.4 milligrams of total THC per…

7 months ago