The post California Weed Farmers Are Challenging State Grow Regulations appeared first on High Times. In an effort to fight against the looming threat of cannabis corporatization, California weed farmers are challenging state grow regulations. Small-scale growers were dismayed when the regulations overseeing the legal cannabis economy were released by California state authorities last year, placing […]
Canada’s federal legalization of cannabis and the continued expansion of legal use in the United States have led to an explosion of interest in marijuana investments, this year especially. But the U.S. brokerage firm TD Ameritrade is warning their clients and investors in general to be cautious about legal cannabis stocks. In a video posted […]
The post CNN Anchor Smoked Pot on Live TV During New Year’s Eve Special appeared first on High Times. Many house-dwelling Americans sat on their couches on New Year’s Eve, getting shit-faced drunk and waiting for the ball to drop to signify the coming of 2018. And many of those Americans were shocked to see […]
It’s typical for a correctional facility to conduct unannounced spot-searchers. Usually, these shake-downs turn up contraband among the inmates. But every so often, these searches bust a correctional officer instead. So it was in Louisiana on Monday, where a Richwood Correctional officer busted smuggling synthetic weed into jail is now sitting behind bars himself. Correctional […]
Meet an award-winning team growing artisanal weed from Washington who’ve perfected large-scale indoor pot farming using a combination of careful strain selection, modern science and age-old wisdom. The City of Flowers Common wisdom in the cannabis-cultivation community has it that as growers scale up the size of their grow space, the quality of their product […]
On a recent lovely night in New York City’s East Village, women gathered in the back of a hip, dimly-lit apothecary, surrounded by shelves of artfully packaged products. The room soon filled up to near capacity, and the talk titled Cannabis, Womanhood and Motherhood began. Attendees had each paid $25 to hear a pharmacist, a […]
Colombia’s government—under pressure from Washington—is pushing ahead with plans to forcibly eradicate 50,000 hectares of coca leaf this year, despite growing resistance from the peasant growers. In several incidents over the past weeks, forced eradication sparked violent confrontations between cocaleros and security forces. Even so-called “voluntary eradication” is now meeting with protest, as campesinos say […]
An 11-year-old girl who suffers from epileptic seizures, former New York Jets player Marvin Washington and an Iraq war veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder are among five plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed this week against the federal government. The lawsuit seeks the de-classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug and challenges the constitutionality of the […]
The vibe at the Gathering of the Juggalos, Detroit horrorcore duo Insane Clown Posse’s notorious yearly festival of art and culture, has historically been called a “bustling drug den in a surrealistic nudist colony.” The Gathering has been feared and revered as a place where outside laws do not apply, and nudity, profanity and the […]
The post Opioids Are Killing More People Than the Vietnam War appeared first on High Times. The opioid epidemic, which is presently turning a huge chunk of the United States population into drug addicts, killed more people last year than the 19-year Vietnam War, a new report shows. The latest statics from the Centers of […]