CULTURE

Why Weed Makes Ideas Feel Brilliant, and Why They Rarely Survive Sobriety

Cannabis can make ideas feel unusually profound by loosening self-criticism, everyday logic and the mental filters that normally keep thoughts in check. Most.

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Nick Swardson Co-Wrote ‘Grandma’s Boy.’ He Wasn’t Even Smoking Weed.

This interview by Micah Johnson originally appeared in High Times Local, produced under license by Cannapages. Twenty years after the cult stoner classic,.

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Dispensary Events Guide: Pop-Ups, Anniversaries and What Makes Them Work

Dispensaries hosted more events in the first six months of 2026 than in all of 2025. What works, what flops and what gets.

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Italy Barely Has Any Fentanyl… Thanks to the Mafia? What the Evidence Says

Italy has extensive opioid use, established illicit drug markets and criminal organizations capable of moving substances across continents, yet fentanyl remains remarkably scarce..

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3 Asks What You’d Do With Three Days Left

A strange prophecy sends an isolated artist on a three-day collision with grief, love, creativity, and the life he’s spent years avoiding. What.

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Are You Sure You’re Not Committing a Crime? The Supreme Court Ruling That Put Spain’s CBD Flower Industry on Edge and United the Entire Sector

Rafael Fernández de Noreña opened one of Spain’s first CBD shops in 2018. Eight years later, his company is closed and his case.

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Terp Basel Is Half Festival, Half Trade Show

Five years in, the Miami gathering shows what happens when cannabis sesh culture grows into something bigger without entirely leaving its roots behind..

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Texas Gave Him 75 Years for Cannabis. He Was 19, and His Son Was Born While He Was Inside.

Julian Andrade was 19 when a Texas court sentenced him to 75 years for a nonviolent cannabis charge. He is 22 now. His.

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If ‘Niche’ Is the New ‘Cool,’ Then Pressed Hash Is Ice Cold: A Golden State Hash Report

It’s a great time to be an old-school hash lover. Award-winning journalist David Downs, a contributor to the “Beyond Buds” book and organizer.

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90% of Americans Want Legal Weed. Lawmakers in Both Parties Keep Punishing Them for It.

From South Dakota to Michigan, red states are trying to overturn legalization votes and blue states are taxing the market to death. Nearly.

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