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Chile Sent 500 Police to Raid a Cannabis Patient Organization Serving 16,000 People. Prosecutors Call It Organized Crime.

Chile’s Operación Imperio Ámsterdam (Operation Amsterdam Empire, in English) mobilized more than 500 police officers and around twenty prosecutors, resulting…

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Barcelona’s Plan Druida Is Turning Up the Pressure on Cannabis Clubs

Barcelona’s Plan Druida expands police presence and surveillance in response to drug trafficking and use, while also placing the city’s…

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Can THC Quiet PTSD Nightmares? New Research Offers Clues

We’ve all had nightmares at some point. The agitation, the fear, the scenarios our own minds create and take us…

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Australia Bans ‘Halloween’ Video Game Over Weed, Not Its Brutal Violence

Gore, Michael Myers, lots of blood, brutal deaths, torture. So far, so good. But… weed? In a game that kids…

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Colombia Wants to Spray Illicit Crops Again. The ’80s Offer a Warning

Colombia is once again looking to the skies to combat drugs. In his first speech as president, far-right leader Abelardo…

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Cannabis in Germany: Club Licenses Stall While Medical Access Shrinks

Germany has received nearly 900 applications for cannabis cultivation associations, but only just over half have been approved as clubs…

3 weeks ago

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…

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I Talk to Plants. The Cannabis Plant Talks Back.

This article originally appeared in High Times’ 50th Anniversary print issue. Get yours here. A three-week experiment in channeling the…

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You’ve Got Mail: Are Berlin Drug Dealers Really Leaving Free Samples in Mailboxes?

Berlin police are warning residents after receiving reports that suspected drug samples were being left in residential mailboxes, allegedly in…

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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