Global drug markets are expanding, diversifying, and adapting through new routes, technologies, substances, and consumer patterns, while public policy often struggles to keep pace. The latest UN ...

The most consequential federal cannabis hearing in more than fifty years began on June 29 in a courtroom in Arlington, Virginia, with roughly 25 public seats and no cameras. The DEA denied a request ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Queer activists helped build legal cannabis from the ground up. The industry should remember that history before respectability politics leaves it with no real allies. Corporate Pride is retreating, ...

Slapwoods is announcing its first-ever official collaboration with DJ Screw, the late Houston legend whose chopped-and-screwed sound changed the pace of hip-hop. The limited release, called The Screw ...

“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 ...

Kate Cholewa is a lobbyist, writer, and political strategist with 30 years of experience in government affairs and public policy, including 15 years in cannabis policy. She has worked at the local, ...

Donald Trump has signed the bill that ends the longest government shutdown in American history and sets in motion the return of federal prohibition for most hemp-derived products. The Senate passed ...

This past summer, as the US military exited Afghanistan, and the country has fallen back into a transitional phase. Afghanistan first became a nation just over 100 years ago in 1919, but one thing ...