June 2023

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High Times Magazine: The Voice of the Marijuana Community

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Executive Chairman Adam Levin CEO Paul Henderson Vice President Of Content Jon Cappetta Editor in Chief Ellen Holland Associate Editor Ashley Kern Staff Writer Benjamin M. Adams Digital Editor Cody Lee Associate Publisher Maxx Abramowitz Creative Dir
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Writing The Cannabis Legacy
WELCOME TO OUR LEGACY ISSUE. “LEGACY” IS A BIG BUZZWORD in cannabis and it can mean a lot of things. Most often it refers to the legacy market, or those companies that existed before adult-use regulations. I tend to think of legacy in terms of the lo
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PATIENTS OUT OF TIME (POT) HAS BEEN A LEADER IN bringing the science of medical cannabis to health care professionals and patients for over 25 years. POT is rededicating itself to addressing the broad scope of patient needs in this new era of emergin
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Study: CBD Could Inhibit Nicotine Metabolism
Another possible benefit of CBD is good news for smokers who want to quit, but are looking for extra help. A study conducted by researchers at Washington State University and published in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology examined how CBD c
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Puff Pot at the Jersey Shore
Cannabis consumption lounges are coming to the East Coast and business owners are lined up for approvals in New Jersey. In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority approved plans in February for the High Rollers Dispen
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On Instagram
So many colors of the rainbow can be seen in the cannabis plant. Featured on #TrichomeTuesday, this shot was taken by Andrew Parker aka @chewberto420 and shows just how many colors can be observed. It’s a macro shot of Diamonds & Pearls (Cake Crasher
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POTENCY & PRICE
WHAT MAKES YOU CHOOSE A PARTICULAR DISPENSARY? FURTHERMORE, WHEN you walk into a dispensary to purchase a cannabis product, what do you look for and what questions do you ask? If you are like most consumers, you consider two main things: potency and
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Market Analysis
It’s hard to believe that half of 2023 is gone already, but here we are, and cannabis prices have never been cheaper. Despite Hawaii recording one of the single-highest totals ever for a THMQ strain (Donny Burger pricing out at over $700), the Wester
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Butter Together
BUSINESSES OFTEN COME AND GO IN THE EVER-CHANGING cannabis industry, but Big Pete’s Treats has maintained success through its 14 years of operation. Founded in Santa Cruz, California in 2009, Big Pete’s Treats is a family-run business led by Pete Feu
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Over A Decade Of Dedication
It all began in 2009 when Big Pete attended Oaksterdam University, a vocational school based in Oakland, California that includes a curriculum covering everything from cultivation, business, and policy within the cannabis industry. For Big Pete’s fin
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Supporting the Community
Working as a family is a joy for the Feurtado family and they all take pride in their products and the consumers they serve. With their love for their hometown of Santa Cruz, in addition to their fondness for the ocean and the beach, they also host o
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The Old-Fashioned Way
Plain and simple, the founders behind Big Pete’s Treats believe the key to success is in its full-spectrum butter. “People love the taste of our butter,” Pete Jr. says. Big Pete’s sources cannabis directly from local Santa Cruz farms, and has had a l
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Homegrown In Mendocino
As California’s cannabis industry saw the price per pound crash in recent years in both the legal and traditional markets, Wood Wide High Craft has used its love of the game and awesome pot to push on as one of Mendocino County’s few success stories.
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A Bat Signal For Outsiders
There are a ton of brands in the modern cannabis landscape, but few of these players truly understand what being a brand really means. There’s a lot more to it than just coming up with a catchy name and logo. Even worse, it seems like in today’s mark
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Chadivation Or Cultivation?
In this epic issue of High Times devoted to one of the biggest questions facing the cannabis industry today, legacy vs. legal, is legalization working? I feel like I’m in a unique position to tackle this query. Having been in the industry for almost
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Pix Of The Crop
SHOW US WHAT YOU GOT E-MAIL YOUR HI-RES DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS (MB ONLY) TO MAILBAG@HIGHTIMES.COM CULTIVATOR: SEAN SPICERMAN, @SEANSPICERMAN BREEDER: MOBILE JAY GENETICS: BLACK CHERRY PUNCH X TROPICANA COOKIES CULTIVATOR: BOULDER BUILT, @BOULDERBUILT BR
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Pot Pride
More than any big city in America, San Francisco has always been on the cutting edge of cannabis consumption–from the beats and poets smoking “mezz” while inhabiting the 1950s North Beach “Beat scene” to the openly stoned hippies of 1960s Haight-Ashb
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The Magazine, The Myth, The Legend
The High Times Magazine of today is built on the backs of active advocates and lobbyists who worked hard to not only decriminalize pot, but also to protect the freedom of the press. True outlaws, the writers and founders behind High Times had, and st
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The Reverend
“Reverend” Thomas King Forçade—real name Gary Goodson—lived for the thrill. After the Arizona native graduated from the University of Utah in 1967 with a business degree, Forçade joined the Air Force only to quickly drop out, as he favored smuggling
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High Times Tales
Holmstrom outlined one story that occurred at the Winter’s End Pop Festival, which took place in Florida in March 1970. The original promoters bailed, while hundreds of thousands of attendees showed up for the event. So Forçade quickly threw together
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The Magazine
Everything changed in the fall of 1973 when Forçade decided publishing a major magazine was a more efficient and effective catalyst for change. Forçade also bankrolled Punk, Overthrow, and the radical far-left paper for the Youth International Party,
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Freedom Of The Press
Holmstrom believes Forçade not only had a major impact on defending the freedom of the press, but that he and a few other publishers he had the most impact. “I think Al Goldstein of Screw magazine and Tom had more to do with defending freedom of the
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Pass The Greens
COOKING WITH WEED HAS MADE THE JOURNEY FROM VAGUELY-DOSED baked goods made in your friend’s kitchen to casual baking guides and walkthroughs on YouTube. This evolution takes a lot of the mystery out of dropping cannabis in with tarragon and other spi
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Leather Storrs’s Tips For Cooking With Cannabis
You’re in charge of everyone’s experience. Plan your menu and spacing of THC beforehand and remember to test it first. A good cook should always be willing to be a guinea pig. What you want to achieve here is a marriage of flower and flavor. Don’t be
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Jim Jefferies Is Living His Best Life
Comedian Jim Jefferies is beaming. Not only for being sober over 700 days but for settling down, having a wonderful wife, amazing kids, and a fantastic career. Oh, and for finally trying cannabis in his 40s and absolutely loving it. No stranger to th
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A BOWL OF STEMS & SEEDS & A BAG OF GREEN
THIS EPITOMIZES MY TAKE ON INFUSED food. It’s silly, it’s both foreign and familiar, it encourages community, and it’s delicious! For stoners of a certain age, stems and seeds means untangling brown bricks in a frisbee and headaches from popping seed
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5 Big Moments In Cannabis History
There’s plenty of evidence to suggest the ancient use of cannabis in multiple civilizations, dating back 10,000 years and beyond. According to the University of Sydney’s Lambert Initiative, Emperor Shennong’s pharmacopeia Classic of the Materia Medic
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The Runner’s High
DJ and producer Diplo, who is co-creator of Major Lazer, member of the group known as LSD (Labrinth, Sia, and Diplo), and has worked with countless other high-profile pop artists, claims that he ran the Los Angeles Marathon while on LSD on March 19.
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Tobacco Vs. Weed
THE FALL OF TOBACCO CORRELATES WITH THE RISE OF CANNABIS. The scales are tipping and combined data shows that more American adults believe cannabis should be legal as opposed to tobacco. Recent data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preve
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Didn’t Cha Know
Grammy-award winning musician Erykah Badu launched her own cannabis brand, That Badu, on International Women’s Day. Badu partnered with Berner, the founder of Cookies, to make products geared toward the wellness of women. “I had to take time to do my
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Enormous Expansion
A study published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Review on March 18 compiled data on the growth of Canada’s adult-use cannabis industry since legalization began. Covering the first four years of legalization, the research stated that more than 3,305
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The Show Me State
Missouri’s cannabis legalization program is on a roll. In early March, just one month after the state first began legal adult-use cannabis sales on Feb. 3, Missouri had already collected $102.9 million in sales with a combined total of medical ($31.2
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The First-mover Advantage
Mexico-based Xebra Brands Ltd. officially received the “first-mover advantage” for its subsidiary, Desart MX, from the Mexican Health Regulatory Agency (which is similar to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the U.S.) on March 9. This allows th
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A Psilocybin First
On March 22, Satori Farms PDX LLC became the first company to receive a psilocybin manufacturer license from the Oregon Health Authority (OHA). “We congratulate Tori Armbrust of Satori Farms PDX LLC for being issued the first psilocybin license in Or
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Hot Products
jackhererbrands.com One favorite sativa-dominant hybrid strain was named after renowned hemp advocate Jack “the Hemperor” Herer. His 1973 masterpiece, The Emperor Wears No Clothes helped change the negative perception of hemp and marijuana. Find legi
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Women Consumers Rise Up
The Harris Poll published the results of its most recent survey, in partnership with MedMen, and found that more than one-third of American women over 21 consume cannabis. After surveying 1,020 women between Feb. 28 and March 2, 2023, more than 37% o
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Double The Medicine
A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on March 12 found that the number of medical cannabis consumers in America has doubled between 2013-2020. The study was conducted by researchers at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven,
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The Cannabis Lifestyle
I have my own business (not cannabis related), but I swear that cannabis consumers come up with more creative business ideas. Want to do a research project? -Barry Hoffman A team in Washington state already did! They found that cannabis users do come

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