Javier Hasse

The DEA hearing that could decide marijuana's federal future starts June 29 with only opponents of reform invited, no livestream, and a one-sided record that could get the whole rule thrown out in court.

The Supreme Court just ruled you can't lose your gun rights for smoking weed. The real test is what happens to the people already locked up under that law. One of them gets out July 15.

Kicking Back, a new High Times series hosted by Survivor winner and former pro soccer player Ethan Zohn, travels the World Cup host cities to find the people living where soccer and cannabis meet. Episode one is a Boston homecoming, with Levia seltzers, a community pitch match and a Scottish supporters' army discovering legal weed.

MMJ International Holdings spent the better part of a decade fighting the DEA to develop cannabis medicine the FDA way. Now it's in court trying to undo the rescheduling that gave state operators an easier path, a move that could drag the whole industry back to Schedule I.

The DEA invited only opponents to its rescheduling hearing, turned reform supporters away and refused to livestream it. Then the government's own witnesses

Rolling Stone tracked Afroman's path from novelty rapper to free-speech folk hero. Here is the part that got cut: why "Because I Got High" plays completely differently in 2026 than it did in 2001.

Dave Sheridan played Officer Doofy in Scary Movie, the deputy revealed as the man behind the Ghostface-style mask. That grinning face became a cannabis icon somewhere along the way, and 25 years later, with it now on a PAX vape, Sheridan is still working out how the culture got there first.

The DOJ's marijuana rescheduling filing says the two groups suing to freeze the policy have "pocketbook interests" in keeping cannabis illegal.

Berner pulled a written-off strain back from the scrap pile, then stood in a Berlin hall with 80,000 people and felt the unity the weed business had lost. His rule has not changed: trust the nose and the people, not the paperwork.

Mary Jane Berlin brought tens of thousands of people into one building and reminded them why they fell for this plant. Then came the other side of Germany's