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Reggaeton Pioneer Randy Wants to Beat California at Its Own Game With a Puerto Rican Weed Brand

Jowell & Randy member Randy is expanding into cannabis with La Zaza, a brand built around Caribbean identity, premium positioning…

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Federal Cannabis Sentencing Gave Her 8 Years. She Has Missed Her Son’s First Steps, First Christmas, First Birthday.

Yasquasia Delcarmen was remanded into custody the day her federal sentence came down. Her son was 11 months old. She…

4 weeks ago

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,…

4 weeks ago

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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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”…

1 month ago

90% of Americans Want Legal Weed. Lawmakers in Both Parties Keep Punishing Them for It.

From South Dakota to Michigan, red states are trying to overturn legalization votes and blue states are taxing the market…

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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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Cannabis Cured Me Twice, and I’ll Show You My Medical Records

Seven years ago, Ed Rosenthal’s PSA numbers spiked and a biopsy confirmed prostate cancer. He declined the interventions his doctor…

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