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Inside the Mushroom-and-Hemp Coffin Designed to Return Bodies to the Earth

Dutch company Loop Biotech’s Living Cocoon is a biodegradable coffin made from mycelium and recycled hemp fibers that can break…

4 weeks ago

‘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…

1 month ago

In Texas, One Delta-8 THC Gummy Can Carry More Prison Time Than an Ounce of Weed

A single four-gram delta-8 gummy can now expose its owner to a felony bracket that runs to twenty years, because…

1 month ago

Beware of the Chads

Berner has a word for the guys who show up with a term sheet and no feel for the plant.…

1 month ago

Hawaii Banned Smokable Hemp in 2020. Stores Sold It Openly for Five Years. Then the Crackdown Began.

The state says flower, pre-rolls and vapes were already prohibited. Hemp retailers say years of limited enforcement allowed a market…

1 month ago

Trump Just Delayed the Hemp Ban. The New Deadline Is the Day Government Funding Runs Out.

He signed it Wednesday. Most of the federal hemp restrictions now take effect December 11 instead of November 12. That…

1 month ago

High Times Strains of the Month: September 2026

Award-winning cannabis journalist and best-selling author David Downs highlights the hottest flowers blazing up the charts in legal U.S. states…

1 month ago

Are You an Intense, Slow or Double Puffer? Scientists Found Three Ways People Smoke Joints.

Researchers hooked a flowmeter to pre-rolls at social smoke sessions in five states and found three distinct ways people pull…

1 month ago

$10 Million Meant for Florida’s Children’s Health Care Was Misappropriated to Help Kill Legal Weed, Grand Jury Finds

A Leon County grand jury concluded the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million owed to a children’s health program and that…

1 month ago

Who Gets to Name a Weed Strain? Nobody. Everybody.

There is no registry, no copyright and no authority. Six breeders on how a plant gets its name, who has…

1 month ago