High Times

05/29/2026

Conor Oberst once turned emotional collapse into an indie blueprint.

Now, 21 years after I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning, he’s revisiting the Bright Eyes era with a cannabis collab tied to both albums and a very different relationship to w**d, sobriety, and performance.

“As a songwriter, I’m kind of doing my best to document the human condition as I experience it. And that’s a lifelong pursuit.”

Twenty-one years after Bright Eyes changed indie music, Conor Oberst reflects on cannabis, sobriety, survival, and revisiting albums that shaped a generation.

05/29/2026

Marc Shepard started NECANN in a frozen Boston beer hall during a snowstorm.

Ten years later, it’s one of the biggest cannabis trade shows on the East Coast, and it’s happening as Massachusetts is again staring at a possible rollback of legalization.

NECANN founder Marc Shepard on cannabis culture, local markets, legalization fights, and why the Northeast still matters.

05/29/2026

Conan O’Brien: terrified of a 5mg gummy.

Also Conan O’Brien: once accepted a High Times b**g on live television 😂

Conan O'Brien's assistant is gently pushing cannabis gummies on the famously straight-edge comedian. Two weeks later, he's managed a quarter of one. Plus: the High Times b**g he accepted on live TV 20 years ago.

05/28/2026

Seeds for beers? I’m in 🤩

A new episode of Planted with Sara Payan is here! This time with Nat Pennington, talking the originins of Humboldt Seed Company, California herb history and much more!

Watch it now on our YouTube channel 👉

Sara Payan sits down with Nat Pennington, CEO and founder of Humboldt Seed Company, for a conversation about California cannabis history, the origins of one ...

05/28/2026

Me and who? 🥹

05/28/2026

Joey Coleman bounced 20 feet after a paragliding crash in Colombia that nearly left him paralyzed. Between spinal fusion, rehab, and opioid withdrawal, he says the hardest part wasn’t the pain, it was not being able to sleep.

Cannabis changed that.

Today he runs a dispensary in Colorado. KAI, he says, is what all of it became.

After a paragliding crash in Bucaramanga, Colombia, shattered his L1 vertebra and put paralysis on the table, Joey Coleman spent months learning to walk again. He says cannabis was what finally let him sleep through the pain. He now runs KAI Dispensary in Grand Junction, Colorado, which he won via a...

05/27/2026

Georgia expanded medical cannabis access despite a physician pushback letter that leaned heavily on worst-case claims and weak sourcing, including warnings about psychosis, addiction, and a “1,700 joints” possession framing that critics say misrepresented the bill.

Read more 👇

Georgia doctors urged Gov. Kemp to veto SB 220—but their claims don’t hold up under scrutiny.

05/27/2026

California trim season has its own mythology: cash, freedom, mountains, community.

Ana Bacigalupo found the other version. Questionably legal operations, endless days in the fields, unsafe conditions and the fragility of surviving far from home when things go wrong.

A side of California cannabis culture people rarely talk about 👇

Ana Bacigalupo left her office job in Buenos Aires and flew to California to trim cannabis. What she found was the part of harvest season nobody brags about: tents, isolation, armed bosses, raids, theft and a human cost that still isn't easy to name. This is the first installment of Trimmigrant Nigh...

05/26/2026

In Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Myanmar, the logic keeps repeating itself.

Cannabis pays 5–40x more than everything else farmers can grow.

From Lebanon to Myanmar to Afghanistan, cannabis becomes a survival economy when states fail and legal agriculture collapses.

05/26/2026

Thinking about using charcoal filters? You might want to think twice.

Marketed as a cleaner way to smoke, designed to "reduce tar and smooth the experience". Multiple studies suggest they can strip terpenes, reduce perceived potency, and lead to compensatory behaviour, meaning you end up consuming more, not less.

Big To***co has used similar tactics before, and the results speak for themselves 👇

Charcoal joint filters strip the terpenes that get you high and barely touch the tar they're sold to remove. The result: you smoke more, inhale up to 86% more tar, and pay for the privilege. Big To***co ran this exact scheme fifty years ago. Here's the science.

05/26/2026

At a cannabis farm just outside Negril, a group tour blends into a psilocybin retreat, and a steam chalice ceremony closes it all out.

In Jamaica, cannabis and mushrooms are starting to share the same space.

In Jamaica, a cop walked into our sesh and offered a fist bump. The island where cannabis and psychedelic tourism are finally merging.