How a nationwide DEA dragnet in 1989 turned garden shops into crime scenes, and taught the War on Drugs to police an idea. The first light of dawn had barely bled over the strip mall when the shutters screeched open. A dozen black-clad agents spilled out of unmarked vans. They smashed glass, padlocked doors, and…
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The ink was barely dry on President Trump’s cannabis rescheduling order when the same question started bouncing around boardrooms, Discords, and trader timelines: Does this mean cannabis can finally uplist to the NYSE or Nasdaq? Short answer: no. Longer answer: also no, and maybe stop treating Wall Street like it’s the finish line. Schedule III…
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Locked In, Looking Out They passed around the pencils and asked a simple question: Who do you look up to, and why?A System That Misreads SurvivalEscaping the Loop I was a “stoner” locked up in juvenile hall at the time for violating probation. Young, angry, sharp-eyed, tired of being told to respect systems that never…
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What Happens When The US Finally Reclassifies Marijuana? Since US President Trump just signed a historic executive order instructing federal agencies to finally move cannabis out of the harshest Schedule I category and move it into Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act, there have been endless speculations about what may happen next for…
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Los Angeles has no shortage of dispensaries. Every neighborhood has one—or three—and most promise the same mix of premium flower, polished interiors and loyalty points. The Chronic, in El Sereno, has managed to stand apart by leaning on something that can’t be manufactured: history. For decades, “The Chronic” has meant high-grade California weed. The name…
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Somewhere between a drill remix, an A24 rollout and the internet’s most committed inside joke, Timothée Chalamet popped up rapping alongside masked UK artist EsDeeKid. Yes, it belongs in High Times. The track is the “4 Raws Remix.” The hook does not overthink things. Every time I smoke, I light four Raws. That’s the thesis.…
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“Store owners have had varying amounts of legal products seized with no recourse to recover the products or the potential profits from those products.” By Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector A McPherson County lawsuit filed by a Kansas business owner challenges “unconstitutionally vague” enforcement operations leading to seizure of cash and hemp-derived products at direction of…
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Breaking News: Did Trump Really Sign An Executive Order To Reclassify Weed? As if it couldn’t get any worse for Democrats, President Trump said, “Hold my beer…” On December 18, 2025, US President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order that directly reclassifies cannabis at the federal level as a less dangerous drug. …
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“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. Ice-T isn’t anti-cannabis. He respects the plant, the culture, the history.…
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The Legalization Backlash: Why Your State Might Repeal Legal Cannabis in 2026 Just when you thought the cannabis legalization train was unstoppable, reality is about to slap you in the face. According to a recent Vice article, several states are considering repealing their legal cannabis markets in 2026. That’s right—not just pausing expansion, not just…
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