High Times officially turned the lights back on July 16, 2025. We didn’t relaunch anything. We reopened the site and started publishing again. And pretty quickly, it became clear that the thing still worked. When the doors open and the work is real, people show up. Writers. Readers. Artists. Growers. Longtime supporters and people discovering
Arizona voters approved adult-use cannabis in 2020 by a wide margin, opening the door to a regulated market that now includes more than 100 licensed dispensaries across the state. Five years later, a new ballot initiative is attempting something unusual: keeping marijuana legal while dismantling the legal cannabis industry itself. The proposal, known as the
In every country where medical cannabis has been legalized, decisions of this scale don’t happen overnight. They’re shaped by years of pressure, debate, and persistence. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, that process culminated this week when the Council of Ministers approved a decision that legalizes cannabis for medical purposes at a regulatory level. That said, practical
With over 55 million cannabis fans in America, 2025 was a year of big wins and stinging losses. From headway in the hash world and LA’s indoor farms to High Times’ resurgence and landmark findings in the scientific world, the ganja news came like a firehose in 2025, and here’s a distillation of the top
In 2025, cannabis policy did not move in a straight line toward legalization. It got stranger. A bunch of governments went after the edges of the cannabis universe. Not the plant, not the users, not the actual harms. They went after the accessories, the imagery, the loopholes, the chemistry, the entire culture. Some of these
There’s something primal about growing your own plant. It’s independence and freedom in a pot. A small act of rebellion in a red Solo cup. The quiet magic of planting a seed and watching life emerge from soil and light—and the satisfaction of knowing exactly what went into the flower you’ll one day hold between
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
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
“ 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.
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
