This is the third installment in High Times’ coverage of the DEA’s rescheduling hearing. Read Part I, “The DEA Blocked the Cameras at This Cannabis Hearing. Here’s What They Didn’t Want You to See,” and Part II, “Prohibitionists Just Argued Themselves Into a Corner: To Stop Weed Reform, They Told a Court How Much Money They’d Lose”

The states of Nebraska, Idaho and Indiana called Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal to make a straightforward argument: that legal cannabis fuels crime, and that federal rescheduling would make it worse. Honsal runs law enforcement in the heart of California’s Emerald Triangle, the most storied weed-growing region in the country. If anyone could tell a federal tribunal that legalization bred lawlessness, it was supposed to be him.

Then the Justice Department got him on cross-examination, and he complicated his own side’s theory. Regulated cannabis can help law enforcement, Honsal told the tribunal, and most of the California product diverted to other states comes from unlicensed operators, not the legal market. That is according to attorneys from Vicente LLP who were in the room. It did not erase every concern in the states’ filing. But it undercut a central implication of their crime argument, that the regulated market itself was the engine of the crime they described.

The states’ own pre-hearing statement had …

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Author: Javier Hasse / High Times

If you had told me 20 years ago that one day I’d be writing for High Times about motherhood and cannabis, I probably would have laughed. Not because I thought it was impossible, but because those identities simply didn’t belong together in the world I grew up in.

The messages were subtle sometimes and blatant at others. Good mothers held everything together. Good mothers put everyone else first. Good mothers might joke about needing a glass of wine after a long day, but cannabis belonged to an entirely different category of people. Cannabis users were portrayed as irresponsible, lazy, and disconnected from real life. Mothers who consumed cannabis weren’t part of the story at all, and if they were, they certainly weren’t women you were supposed to admire. I absorbed those messages without even realizing it. Then I became a mother myself.

Like so many women, I had a picture in my mind of what my life would look like. I built a career in beauty and wellness and eventually opened my own studio. I loved helping women feel confident and cared for, and I treasured the relationships I built with my clients over the years. Running a business wasn’t just my job. It became part of my identity. I was the service provider, marketer, receptionist, bookkeeper, cleaner, and problem-solver. I was also raising two children, trying to build a stable home and create the kind of life I had always imagined for my family. For a while, I thought I had figured it out.

What most people didn’t see was what was happening behind the scenes. Chronic pain and spinal …

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Author: Stephanie Gelinas / High Times

Some strains don’t chase trends; they set the standard against which everything else is measured. This collection features eight of the most influential names in cannabis history: Hindu Kush, Acapulco Gold, Northern Lights, Skunk #1, White Widow, G13 Haze, Master Kush, and Afghan Hash Plant. Explore legendary genetics, from pure landraces gathered in the mountains of Afghanistan and the hills of Mexico to Amsterdam coffeeshop icons that defined an era.

Choosing regular seeds is a deliberate decision. Producing both males and females, they give breeders the raw material to select phenotypes, stabilize crosses, and maintain robust mothers. Regular seeds support greater genetic diversity in breeding populations and allow for the careful selection of traits across generations, ensuring long-term line stability and adaptability. For purists, they offer a direct, uncut connection to heritage genetics untouched by modern hybridization.

Across the range, you’ll find the full spectrum: pure Indica landraces such as Hindu Kush and Northern Lights for deep, sandalwood-and-citrus calm; balanced classics such as Skunk #1 and White Widow with pungent aromas and sociable highs; and Sativa-leaning icons such as G13 Haze and Acapulco Gold for tropical sweetness and soaring clarity. Whether you’re breeding, preserving, or simply growing legends, choose the strain that fits your goal and keep cannabis history alive.

Skunk #1 Regular is the benchmark against which every strain is measured, putting the raw genetics that revolutionized the 1970s into your hands.

A cross of Afghan, Acapulco Gold, and Colombian Gold, it’s an ideal breeding canvas with vigorous plants bearing dense, lime-green colas under a silver sheen of resin. Skunk #1 adapts well to a variety of growing environments, thriving both indoors and outdoors, as well as in greenhouses. It performs best …

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“Did you ever work from here?”

Standing in Cinto Bay, surrounded by crystal-clear Caribbean water and jungle-covered mountains, I finally asked my father a question I’d wondered about for years.

He looked around the cove for a moment and shook his head.

“Nah.”

Then he pointed toward the mountains behind us.

“There was a road back there,” he said. “We’d drive through the desert. At the end there was a salt flat on a cliff over the ocean. That’s where we launched the planes.”

In that moment, standing in Colombia nearly 50 years after many of those flights took place, stories I had heard my entire life suddenly became real places.

Returning to Colombia

The original purpose of the trip was business.

After my father’s release from prison in 2020, we founded DeLisioso, a cannabis brand built around redemption, reform, and second chances. In 2021, what started as rebuilding our family after three decades apart slowly evolved into something much larger.

This trip brought us back to Santa Marta, Colombia, where we were exploring potential partnerships with our friend Carlos Vivas Jr. and his partner Santiago, both heavily involved in Colombia’s medicinal cannabis industry.

For us, the trip was about genetics. Rare expressions. Authentic Colombian cannabis. Landrace varieties and terpene profiles shaped naturally over generations in the mountains and coastal regions of the country.

For my father, Colombia meant something deeper. Back in 1973, before any of the history that would later define his life, he and his brother Teddy were driving around Florida late one night, completely stoned and looking for munchies.

They stopped at a 7 …

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Author: Rick DeLisi / High Times

Picture two THC gummies sitting side by side. Both contain five milligrams of THC, produce the same effect, and would appear identical under laboratory analysis. Yet one can only be purchased inside a licensed dispensary, subject to state taxation and seed-to-sale tracking, while the other can be ordered online and shipped directly to a consumer’s home—in states where no dispensary exists at all.

The plant itself does not account for that difference. The chemistry is effectively the same. The distinction was established through federal legislation rather than biology, and for the growing number of Americans purchasing THC products online for the first time, it has become one of the most confusing aspects of the market.

That confusion is precisely the problem Edibles.com set out to solve. 

Launched in 2025 and based in Atlanta, the wellness-focused marketplace was built around consumer education first, on the premise that people entering the modern THC market deserve to understand what they are buying before they buy it. Operating under a “health, not high” philosophy, the platform organizes hemp-derived products by the outcome they support—sleep, recovery, energy, relaxation, or social occasions—rather than by strain or potency.

But before a shopper can choose an outcome, they often have to get past the market’s most basic point of confusion.

Hemp and Marijuana Are the Same Species

For many consumers entering the category, understanding the difference between hemp and marijuana is the first lesson. It is also one of the most widely misunderstood.

Hemp and marijuana are not two different plants. They are both classifications of Cannabis sativa L.—the same species categorized under two different legal definitions.

That legal distinction …

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Ask most cannabis insiders which states matter, and you’ll hear the usual suspects: California. Colorado. Maybe Michigan or New York. Missouri rarely makes the first cut. That may be the industry’s biggest blind spot. 

Yet on the measures that count right now—sales, stability, the ambition of the operators building there—it has quietly become one of the country’s most compelling markets, and one of the few still climbing while others stall.

Much of that story runs through a single company. SWADE Cannabis, the retail brand owned by BeLeaf Medical Co., opened in 2021 as one of Missouri’s first dispensaries and has spent the years since scaling into one of the state’s defining operators. They are vertically integrated, statewide, and built for a market that keeps maturing around it.

A Market That Keeps Setting Records

Missouri launched adult-use sales in February 2023, and the numbers since have been hard to argue with. State retailers reported a record $1.5 billion in cannabis sales in 2025, up about 4% over the year before, with adult-use purchases making up nearly 90% of the total, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. 

That figure lands harder in context. While several established markets contract, like how Colorado’s annual sales slid to $1.32 billion last year, and Michigan’s legal sales dropped sharply after a January tax hike, Missouri has kept growing, pushing cumulative sales past $4.9 billion since legal sales began in 2020.

Part of the state’s edge is structural. Because Amendment 3 wrote legalization directly into the Missouri constitution, operators work from a legal foundation that local or state …

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Puffco announced its lineup for Puffcon Block Party 2026 in late June, and the names at the top are the ones built to travel. Metro Boomin headlines Saturday, October 3. Action Bronson headlines Sunday, October 4. Underneath them sit Curren$y, The Alchemist and Boldy James, OhGeesy, BIA, TiaCorine, Jesse Royal and a dozen more, spread across two days at Los Angeles Center Studios.

That is a genuinely great lineup, and it is the reason most people will buy a ticket. Fair enough. What has our attention is somewhere else on the bill.

Buried further down the announcement, past Smorgasburg and the silent disco and the fifty-plus brand activations, is a line about the Glass Village: more than a hundred glass artists, from around the world, in one place. The roster reads like a phone book from a country that appears on no map. Alex Ubatuba. Cool Hand Suuze. Eternal Flameworks. Dopals Opals. Lissa Melts. Sky the Pyro. Wormhole. Zinalosi.

Those are working artists. Some have been on the torch for twenty years. Their pieces are one-offs, they trade on a secondary market, they appreciate, and collectors chase specific makers the way other collectors chase specific painters. There are dedicated auction sites. There are waiting lists. There are rigs that sell for more than a used car.

And there is not a single major American museum that treats any of it as contemporary art.

The Only Thing Disqualifying the Work Is What It’s For

Take a heady rig. Sculptural borosilicate, hand-worked, fumed with precious metals, millie work …

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Reports surfaced in early July claiming that production has already wrapped on a new, still-untitled Ali G film, shot partly in Oxfordshire and partly in the United States. There is no confirmed title, distributor or release date yet, and Baron Cohen’s representatives have declined to comment. But only days after the news broke, Ali G walked into one of the most closely watched sporting events on Earth wearing a jacket identifying him as Wimbledon’s “official ganja dealer.” The timing hardly feels accidental.

Ali G selling weed at the Wimbledon Men’s final lol pic.twitter.com/07BVClpJ4A— JD Harmeyer (@jdharm) July 12, 2026

Behind Ali G’s signature glasses, baggy jeans and oversized swagger lies British comedian, producer and screenwriter Sacha Baron Cohen, who has also embodied figures like Borat, Brüno and Admiral General Aladeen. 

Ali G first appeared as “the voice of da yoof” on Channel 4’s The 11 O’Clock Show in 1998, before getting Da Ali G Show in the early 2000s and his own feature film, Ali G Indahouse, in 2002. That was the last time we saw him leading a movie, but not the last time we saw the character: Baron Cohen brought him back for the 2012 British Comedy Awards, Ali G: Rezurection in 2014, the 2016 Oscars and, most recently, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2024. 

From ‘Da Voice of Da Yoof’ To a Big Old Pothead

Created to poke fun at white, suburban chavs wishing they were Black, Baron Cohen took Ali G into some of the spiciest, most bizarre—or probably just senseless—interviews ever conducted with …

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Author: Camila Berriex / High Times

Everything about it was enormous. You could spend an entire day walking Mary Jane Berlin and still not see all of it, and somewhere in there, with people lighting up in every direction and a wall of noise rolling off the booths, Berner was trying to put words to it.

“Berlin’s fucking insane.”

He had barely stepped onto the floor before he started explaining what everyone around him was feeling.

“I love to see everyone from all over the place coming into one place to kind of boost each other on the weed business,” he told High Times. “It’s just cool to see so much unity. Everyone’s so excited. I kind of miss that excitement in the weed space.”

Then he smiled. “It feels like the old days. Like 2016.”

Interviewing Berner for High Times

That line stayed with me all week. I had been thinking it for years. Berner just said it out loud. Somewhere along the line, a lot of cannabis events stopped being celebrations and turned into business meetings. Not all of them. The High Times Cannabis Cup still feels like a party, and Mary Jane Berlin runs on that same current, community and vendors and musicians and artists all in one place, with a lineup this year that put Redman and Mobb Deep’s Havoc on the bill. But those are the exceptions now. Across most of the calendar, investors replaced enthusiasts, compliance replaced culture, …

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Author: Javier Hasse / High Times

What Berlin residents can expect to find in their mailboxes—say, a pizza flyer or an appliance repair brochure—seems to be changing. Police issued an unusual warning after receiving reports that small packages containing suspected drugs had been left directly in residential mailboxes. According to authorities, the apparent goal was to attract new customers through free samples.

Although the number of confirmed cases remains limited and there is still no evidence that this is a widespread phenomenon across the city, the incidents have drawn attention both for the unusual method and for what they suggest about the evolution of the illegal drug market. Instead of waiting for users to seek them out, some dealers appear to be taking their marketing directly to potential customers’ doorsteps.

Berlin Drug Dealers’ New Tactic: Free Samples, QR Codes, and Underground Marketing

Berlin police issued the warning on July 7, as reported by The Berliner, after officers received reports that envelopes or small packages had been left in private mailboxes. According to images released by authorities, some packages appeared to contain what were believed to be samples of substances such as cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine, hashish, cannabis, or 3-MMC, along with contact details for a dealer.

In some cases, the packages featured colorful designs and candy-like packaging, raising particular concern over the risk that children might mistake them for regular sweets.

The tactic resembles a familiar marketing strategy: offering a product for free to encourage a later purchase. The difference, of course, is …

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Author: Camila Berriex / High Times