featured

Beware of the Chads

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

2 months 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…

2 months 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…

2 months 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…

2 months 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…

2 months 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…

2 months 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…

2 months ago

The Industry Bet Against Bud. Flower Smokers Never Left.

The cannabis industry spent years predicting flower’s decline. Grown Rogue CEO and co-founder Obie Strickler argues that the prediction said…

2 months ago

Weed Can’t Get Past 34%. The Labels Go to 42%. The System Rewards the Lie.

A Spanish engineer who has spent sixteen years scanning flower explains how the industry got here — and what it…

2 months ago

The Future of Cannabis Tourism Starts on the Farm

Cannabis Wine Tours founder Charles Kimball argues that farmer-hosted experiences can connect visitors with the land while giving small Northern…

2 months ago