High Times

“I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”-Maya Angelou THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS IN THIS OFTEN DARK WORLD that we bring along with us because of the way they brighten and enhance our lives. Cannabis is one of those things. While some might try to tell us it’s a hindrance, we know it’s a helper. This plant has guided so many before us towards a better way of life, one that is more kind and in communion with nature. That’s probably because cannabis is a part of nature that our internal pathways innately understand. And, as this female flower turns on signals within receptors in my brain, I want to send you, dear reader, the message I hear. Our time together is…

I WENT TO MJBIZCON (HELD IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA IN NOVEMBER 2022) and saw something new: A man wearing a sandwich board hand-written with a funding pitch for his Massachusetts social equity license. A true “last-resort” funding attempt. I think the sign wearer was tongue-in-cheek. But humor is also a method of coping with disappointment. I share his deep disappointment about the wave of unfunded social equity licensees. Social equity activists have pushed back against social equity as a buzzword only—talked about but not actualized. Standing outside the Las Vegas Convention Center wearing his sign was a buzzword in the flesh. His sign explained the license is in a desirable location. There’s committed venture capital (VC) funding and a strong advisory team with exits under their belt. And it’s not enough.…

Cows Produce Milk With THC German researchers published a study in Nature Food on Nov. 14, 2022 and determined that dairy cows that were fed industrial hemp produced milk with detectable traces of delta-9 THC. Researchers observed that the cows underwent behavioral changes, indicating that they might have been under the influence of the cannabinoids found in the hemp feed. To conduct the study, researchers at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment fed 10 lactating dairy cows different amounts of hemp feed loaded with a wide range of cannabinoid concentrations. The cows were observed over a period of weeks, and researchers collected data on the behavior of the animals and conducted lab analysis. The cows that were given feed made from cannabinoid-rich hemp leaves, flowers, and seeds demonstrated noticeable behavioral…

@vanessamotobike @HIGH_TIMES_Mag Would you be interested in holding a Cannabis Cup in Thailand next year sometime? @AndyKowl Found this old National Lampoon parody of @HIGH_TIMES_Mag [called Wasted Times]. It’s pretty lame, and that wasn’t us being sensitive. Regardless, we took it as an honor to be lampooned. @SujfatS @HIGH_TIMES_Mag How the fuck is this even still being voted on at this point? It’s a violation of human rights to criminalize a plant that hasn’t killed anyone. @blueberrychem @nimitz2004 and @HIGH_TIMES_Mag Honestly tho when you compare the last 5-10 years of drug policy advancements to the preceding 100 this is all happening at light speed. glass half full idk @MrGrowIt Method Man & Redman just crushed it at the @HIGH_TIMES_Mag MJBizCon after party! @Gregory_Ego @underwatermoonl Interested whether I’d recognize any cartoons Asa Brebner did for @HIGH_ TIMES_Mag. @Heady_NJ A…

WORLDWIDE, THERE ARE AN ESTIMATED 260 MILLION CANNABIS CONSUMERS ranging from savvy connoisseurs to holistic healers, yet the market-place today too often remains set on pigeonholing marijuana consumers into one of two categories, either as a stereotypical recreational stoner or a chronic patient holding a doctor’s note. “All insecurity in business is created by a lack of data,” says Gary Allen, CEO of New Frontier Data, a Washington, D.C.-based research data and strategic analysis firm. He explains that for advertisers to effectively tap into a local or global market, they need to see beyond the legalized reform policy buckets of recreational versus medicinal cannabis markets, and better understand the consumers themselves in order to find and engage them. Toward that end, New Frontier Data interviewed 3,100 consumers over a three-year period to quantify…

WELCOME BACK TO THE TWENTY22MANY VETERAN CHRONICLES, WHERE I HAVE THE honor and privilege to write about incredible veteran activists. This month I get to tell the story about possibly one of the most needed and useful organizations that I have ever written about on this platform. I proudly bring you the Balanced Veterans Network (BVN), founded by United States Air Force veteran Ron Millward. Millward is dedicated to creating a safe, reliable space for cannabis education, advocacy, and empowerment of alternative therapies for veterans and their families. Millward grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and enlisted in the United States Air Force at 17 years old. He served for seven years as a combat vehicle operator and an aerospace flight medic. During that time, Millward deployed to Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,…