As cannabis beverages gain ground, study after study shows alcohol consumption dropping. You don’t need a conspiracy to explain the panic. You just need the numbers. Alcohol sales are down. Cannabis beverages are up. And suddenly, a lot of people are very concerned about weed making people puke. That timing is hard to ignore. When
Presidential elections in Costa Rica are scheduled for February 1, 2026, and we’re looking at quite a broad landscape. Amid fragmentation and indecision, Costa Ricans will have to choose from a vast array of candidates. Some of them have publicly stated their positions on cannabis legalization. Since 2022, Law 10.113 has been in effect, regulating
A bipartisan bill would push the federal hemp THC ban to 2028, buying time for farmers, brewers, and lawmakers to replace prohibition with regulation. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is moving to slow down the federal hemp THC ban that Congress quietly enacted during last year’s government shutdown, giving the industry more time to adjust
A teenager in California died from an overdose after spending months asking ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot, about drug use and so-called “safe” dosages. He had friends. He studied psychology. He liked video games. According to his mother, the clearest signs of anxiety and depression didn’t show up in his social life, but they appeared
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
