I groped around in the dark under the bleachers until I found the lighter, then took a deep breath. At 17, I had finally decided I was ready to get high for the first time. My friends had begun ...

With Britain weeks away from a new Prime Minister, former UK parliamentary adviser James Matthewson argues that the incoming leader, widely expected to be Labour’s Andy Burnham, has a rare chance to ...

Muck Sticky, the Memphis rapper who has lived in pajamas for 24 years, opens up about weed, creativity and radical self-acceptance. As he prepares to launch his own cannabis brand, the independent ...

“You’re giving your life force to weed,” plant medicine facilitator Iván Chocron says on a 2025 episode of the Integrating Consciousness podcast. “And weed is giving you something so that you feel ...

MDMA gummies. DMT vapes. Mushroom chocolates sold in smoke shops halfway around the world. Long before regulators figured out what legal psychedelics might look like, an unregulated gray-market ...

Legal cannabis promised legitimacy. Instead, many of the people who carried the culture through prohibition are being priced, regulated, and pushed out of the industry they helped build. I am beyond ...

There was a time, long ago, when the culinary horizon of the average stoner ended with a dry (so dry!) pot brownie, as brittle as dust. Back then, anything went: adding flower to any ultra-processed ...

Award-winning cannabis journalist and best-selling author David Downs highlights the hottest flowers blazing up the charts in legal U.S. states for the start of summer. It’s his new monthly column, ...

An excerpt from Jason Silva’s new book Sacred Derangement. On cannabis, consciousness as cinema and the idea that the self is something you direct rather than something you have. David Lenson, in On ...

Nearly 985,000 cannabis club identity documents were reportedly exposed through public URLs linked to Cannabis Club Systems and PuffPal, raising serious questions about how the industry protects ...

There’s a moment most cannabis operators hit where hustle stops being enough. At first, production is manageable. A few employees can hand-fill pre-rolls, package flower, label jars, and keep orders ...

Trulieve becomes the first U.S. cannabis company to trade on the NYSE on June 10. To get through the door, it carved the recreational weed out of the company entirely. Wall Street is letting in a U.S.