“I stopped smoking and realized I didn’t like my friends.” The line allegedly belongs to the late Guru of Gang Starr. In our new podcast, House of Haze, ICE-T brings it back as a gut check for anyone who built a circle around consumption. https://youtube.com/watch?v=GwV1en2EBGw&start=1040&feature=oembed Ice-T isn’t anti-cannabis. He respects the plant, the culture,
How a Legal Loophole Rewired America’s Cannabis Industry and Why Its Collapse Will Change Cannabis Forever For six years, the American hemp industry breathed life into people who had spent years waiting for true relief, and it carried a sense of possibility that felt almost impossible, sparking policy debates and cultural clashes along the way.
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order addressing federal cannabis policy at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, according to multiple reports citing the president’s schedule and White House officials. Sources say the order is expected to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act. If that
“Anyone in jail for anything to do with cannabis should be set free.” Ice-T does not blink when he says it. He does not reach for qualifiers. He keeps talking. “It’s legal in enough places,” he adds. “That’s like having somebody in jail for alcohol after Prohibition.” We are on House of Haze, a High
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration diverted more than $35 million in taxpayer funds that investigators say were used to influence last year’s ballot fights over abortion and recreational cannabis, according to a months-long investigation by the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times. The money, originally allocated for healthcare, child welfare and opioid recovery programs, was
Chile’s presidential election ended with José Antonio Kast, leader of the Republican Party, pulling in 58% of the vote against 41% for ruling-coalition candidate Jeanette Jara. But the ballot count delivered more than a political upset… At Table 101 of the Presidente Pedro Aguirre Cerda School in San Antonio, poll workers opened an envelope and
This article originally appeared in High Times Magazine’s 50th Anniversary Print Issue. Order yours here and get it delivered to your door. The roads are quieter now in the Emerald Triangle. On stretches of State Route 299, the sight of logging trucks has returned. Humboldt County’s timber economy once defined the region—until environmental restrictions, overharvesting,
President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged on Monday that his administration is actively considering reclassifying cannabis under federal law, saying the current Schedule I status blocks medical and scientific research. “A lot of people want to see it, the reclassification, because it leads to tremendous amounts of research that can’t be done unless you reclassify,” Trump
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order classifying illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals as “weapons of mass destruction,” a move that reframes the U.S. overdose crisis as a matter of national security rather than public health. “With this historic executive order I will sign today, we’re formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon
If you’ve been following the news, you’ve probably seen the headlines: President Donald Trump is reportedly considering moving cannabis out of Schedule I and into Schedule III under federal law. That single sentence has sparked confusion, hope, anger, excitement and a lot of very good questions. So let’s slow it down. Here’s what we actually
