Proper Smoke League’s Proper Cup High Rollers has reached the point where brackets stop being theory and start being pressure. The semifinals are locked. The prize is real. And the paths to the money are anything but clean. This is not a feel-good story about participation trophies or hype strains. This is a fight for
In case anyone still doubted that hip-hop is one of cannabis’ most powerful cultural platforms, a new academic study has finally put hard numbers behind what the culture has been saying for decades. According to research published in the journal Substance Use & Misuse, more than 37% of hip-hop and rap music videos produced in
By December 2025, medical cannabis prescriptions in Germany had increased by more than 3,300% compared with March 2024, the final month before cannabis was removed from the country’s narcotics law and reclassified as a non-narcotic medication. The shift simplified prescribing, opened the door wider for telemedical care and helped normalize cannabis as a regulated treatment.
High Times reporter John Veit traces South Africa’s turbulent cannabis landscape with activists Myrtle Clarke and Trenton Birch, highlighting the human cost of contradictory laws, police chaos, and an export-first legalization model that sidelines legacy growers. Blending personal tragedy with policy analysis, it shows how private clubs, medicalization, and ingenuity persist in a legal gray
In mid-December, a small cannabis and CBD shop in Leadville, Colorado, caught fire. It was a structure fire in an old building, complicated by hidden voids in the walls. Fire crews from multiple counties responded. Nearby homes were evacuated as a precaution. Local officials issued an air quality alert, advising residents to stay indoors or
For decades, both Democrats and Republicans have skirted around marijuana reform, but only one party has stood firmly for full legalization since day one: the Libertarian Party. Founded in 1971, the Libertarian Party emerged in direct contrast to President Nixon’s newly declared War on Drugs. Its first platform, adopted a year later, called for the
A federal court filing claims former partners profited off their names through disputed cannabis licensing deals. Mike Tyson and Ric Flair are accusing former business partners of defrauding them in a high-stakes cannabis branding venture, according to allegations laid out in a federal lawsuit filed last month in Illinois. The 76-page complaint, submitted Dec. 19
Editor’s Note (January 2026): Following the passing of Bob Weir at age 78, we’re resurfacing this archival High Times piece, first published in 2019, as a tribute to his life, curiosity, and lasting influence on music, culture, and consciousness. Weir was never just a guitarist or songwriter. He was a seeker. A listener. Someone deeply
From pleasure and connection to harm reduction and policy failure, a look at what decades of drug enforcement got wrong about human behavior. The conversation around drugs has long been framed by cost. Policymakers calculate the billions lost every year to productivity gaps, hospitalizations, law enforcement and incarceration. The U.S. alone spends an estimated $193 billion
Cannabis is having one of those moments again. Headlines are flying. Group chats are buzzing. Stocks are moving. Politicians are lining up to take credit. After more than fifty years in Schedule I, cannabis is finally being acknowledged by the federal government as having medical value. That alone is historic. It’s the U.S. government, at
