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The Hemp Ban Could Slip a Month. Read the Fine Print Before You Celebrate.

Senate leaders released a stopgap that would push most of the federal hemp deadline to December 11. Cannabinoids the plant…

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How Washington Killed the Colombian Cannabis Boom And Created the Cocaine Cartels by Accident

This article originally appeared in High Times’ 50th Anniversary print issue. Get yours here. In the 1970s, Colombia’s Sierra Nevada…

6 days ago

Prohibitionists Packed the DEA Hearing to Keep Marijuana in Schedule I. Their Own Witnesses Made the Case for Schedule III.

Every nongovernment participant selected for the DEA’s rescheduling hearing opposed reform. By the time the record closed, one marquee witness…

3 weeks ago

We Legalized Weed… So Why Does It Still Feel Broken?

This article originally appeared in High Times’ Spring/Summer 2026 print edition. Get yours here. Activists, investors, lawyers, growers and a…

3 weeks ago

The DEA Blocked the Cameras at This Cannabis Hearing. Here’s What They Didn’t Want You to See.

The DEA invited only opponents to its rescheduling hearing, turned reform supporters away and refused to livestream it. Then the…

1 month ago

Never Mind Manchesterism, Britain’s Next PM Should Consider Marijuanaism

With Britain weeks away from a new Prime Minister, former UK parliamentary adviser James Matthewson argues that the incoming leader,…

1 month ago

This Cannabis Company Had It Hard for Years. Now It’s in Court to Undo the Reform That Made It Easier for Others.

A drug company spent nearly eight years fighting the DEA to make cannabis medicine the hard way. Now that everyone…

1 month ago

Inside The Stacked, Closed-Door DEA Hearing That Will Decide Weed’s Federal Future

The hearing that could decide weed’s federal future starts June 29. The DEA invited seven participants, and every one of…

1 month ago

There’s a Mountain in Morocco Where Everyone Grows Hash. The Locals Call It the Temple of the Plant. The Government Called It Illegal.

This article originally appeared in High Times’ 50th Anniversary print issue. Get yours here. In the Rif Mountains, Indigenous Berber…

2 months ago

Our Readers Admitted Flying With Weed. A Cannabis Lawyer Says The Real Self-Incrimination Risk Is Going Legal, Not Getting High.

Travelers flooded the comments admitting they fly with weed. A top cannabis lawyer says that is not the federal exposure…

2 months ago