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John Waters’ Holiday Drug Confessions: ‘I’ve Taken Every One’

Who better to spend the holidays with than John Waters? Few artists are as festive as Mr. Waters, who releases holiday covers and tours with A John Waters Christmas — evenings of storytelling and indispensable life advice from the filmmaker behind Female Trouble, Hairspray, Polyester, Multiple Maniacs, and Pink Flamingos, to name a few of

2025-12-28T15:16:01+00:00December 28th, 2025|Cannabis, Feed|Comments Off on John Waters’ Holiday Drug Confessions: ‘I’ve Taken Every One’

Chile at a Crossroads: What Does a Hard-Right Presidency Mean for the Future of Cannabis?

A new chapter begins for Chilean politics. After winning the runoff election against candidate Jeannette Jara by 58% to 41%, President-elect José Antonio Kast represents another milestone in the country’s political back-and-forth: a society seemingly unafraid to swing from right to left, and back again. But what about the future of progressive policy agendas under

2025-12-27T21:16:10+00:00December 27th, 2025|Cannabis, Feed|Comments Off on Chile at a Crossroads: What Does a Hard-Right Presidency Mean for the Future of Cannabis?

Ice-T On His Rick And Morty Cameo: ‘They Didn’t Roast Me. Thank God.’

“ You’re lucky when animation does not dog you,” Ice-T says. “Rick and Morty made me a superhero.” https://youtube.com/watch?v=GwV1en2EBGw&start=1899&feature=oembed He was on tour in Europe when the call came. The show wanted him in an episode and asked if he could record lines. His first thought was not about scheduling. It was about risk.

2025-12-27T19:16:10+00:00December 27th, 2025|Cannabis, Feed|Comments Off on Ice-T On His Rick And Morty Cameo: ‘They Didn’t Roast Me. Thank God.’

You Thought CBD Was for Boomers. College Students Are Using It to Survive School.

CBD’s reputation still lingers somewhere between yoga studios and grandparents’ medicine cabinets. College students did not get that memo. According to a new, large-scale study from the University of Georgia, nearly half of college students have tried CBD, and close to one in three use it at least once a month. The reasons are familiar

2025-12-26T14:16:11+00:00December 26th, 2025|Cannabis, Feed|Comments Off on You Thought CBD Was for Boomers. College Students Are Using It to Survive School.

High Times Greats: A Christmas Story – Which Real Meaning?

For an article in the December, 1979 edition of High Times, late, great counterculture correspondent Glenn O’Brien examined the connections between Santa Claus and a specific kind of psychedelic mushroom known as the fly agaric, aka the toadstool that conquered the universe. In fact, the existence of Santa could be related to a shaman in

2025-12-25T17:15:19+00:00December 25th, 2025|Cannabis, Feed|Comments Off on High Times Greats: A Christmas Story – Which Real Meaning?

A Christmas Carol by Truman Capote, as told to Andy Warhol

In the “Opinion” section of the December, 1978 edition of High Times, famed writer Truman Capote (1924 – 1984) chats with art-world legend Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987) about what they want for Christmas. Merry Christmas… AW: So do you know what you want for Xmas? TC: Well, first of all, I don’t want anything

2025-12-25T17:15:38+00:00December 25th, 2025|Cannabis, Feed|Comments Off on A Christmas Carol by Truman Capote, as told to Andy Warhol

The U.S. Military Is Funding MDMA-Assisted Therapy Research for PTSD (For Real)

A Department of Defense (DoD)-funded clinical trial will study MDMA-assisted therapy paired with Massed Prolonged Exposure for PTSD in active-duty service members. For decades, MDMA lived far outside the walls of official medicine. Let alone the U.S. military. That wall just moved. The U.S. Department of Defense is funding a $4.9 million clinical trial investigating

2025-12-24T21:15:11+00:00December 24th, 2025|Cannabis, Feed|Comments Off on The U.S. Military Is Funding MDMA-Assisted Therapy Research for PTSD (For Real)

Even the Feds Say Teen Marijuana Use Is Declining

For years, critics of cannabis reform have leaned on the same warning: legal weed will lead to more teens using marijuana. The data keeps telling a different story. According to newly released, federally funded survey data compiled by researchers at the University of Michigan, teen marijuana use has continued its long-term decline and now sits

2025-12-24T17:15:10+00:00December 24th, 2025|Cannabis, Feed|Comments Off on Even the Feds Say Teen Marijuana Use Is Declining

How the Cannabis Lobby Finally Got Trump to Budge

Cannabis didn’t win Trump over with a single argument. It wore him down. For more than a year, executives, advocates, pollsters and old friends circled one of the most famously sober presidents in modern history, pushing a narrow idea again and again: marijuana doesn’t belong in the same federal category as heroin. By the time

2025-12-24T17:15:11+00:00December 24th, 2025|Cannabis, Feed|Comments Off on How the Cannabis Lobby Finally Got Trump to Budge

Trump Wants Marijuana Rescheduling Done Fast — Possibly by January

President Donald Trump has directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to move quickly on finalizing marijuana’s potential reclassification under federal law, following an executive order signed earlier this month. According to The Marijuana Herald, which cited two sources close to the president, Trump privately instructed Bondi to complete the rescheduling process by the end of January.

2025-12-24T16:16:13+00:00December 24th, 2025|Cannabis, Feed|Comments Off on Trump Wants Marijuana Rescheduling Done Fast — Possibly by January
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