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The initial THMQ of the new year starts with a shocking development as the average ounce in the southern sector rose a massive $40, up to $308, driven in part by expensive dispensary prices in Louisiana and Missouri. By contrast, the eastern market rose a modest four dollars to $313, while an ounce in the West went up just a buck to $288. All of these ganja gains drove the cost of cannabis to $303 nationwide. In the “Top 5,” there is a tie at the top between expensive Gelato and much more affordable Cookies & Cream. TOP 5 STRAINS 1 Gelato 3 @ $388 2 Cookies & Cream 3 @ $220 3 MAC 1 2 @ $391 4 Jack Herer 2 @ $348 5 Mimosa 2 @ $289…

THE INAUGURAL WHITE ASH Weekend in the Canary Islands was a celebration of fine cannabis sure to make waves on both sides of the Atlantic. To understand the hype levels you must understand the scene on the island of Tenerife. The island is the largest in Spain, despite being situated about 200 miles off the coast of Africa. It’s home to just under one million people. These may not sound like the ingredients for a cannabis hot spot, but add in the five million tourists that visit the island from Europe every year and you’ll get a better idea of why things are blowing up in the cannabis club and association scene. Spain is a legal gray area for cannabis, where it is legal to smoke and grow cannabis for…

Following President Joe Biden’s announcement to issue blanket pardons for people convicted for simple cannabis possession under federal law, Monmouth University in New Jersey released poll data showing the country’s overall support for pardons, legalization, and more. On Oct. 24, the University shared that it conducted phone interviews between Oct. 13-17 with 808 adults. “Polling from a variety of sources shows that support for marijuana legalization has been increasing consistently over the past twenty years,” said Monmouth University Polling Institute Director Patrick Murray. “Biden’s action is in line with how the vast majority of Americans feel about this issue.” Among the interviewed participants, 68% support legalizing possession in small amounts (76% were Democrats, 73% independents, and 52% Republicans). Sixty-nine percent of those interviewed said that they approved of Biden issuing…

According to the National Menopause Foundation, an estimated 1.3 million women enter menopause every year, and with it comes a variety of symptoms, many of which have been relieved by cannabis. In September 2022, a cannabis and menopause study was published in The Journal of The North American Menopause Society. Researchers analyzed experiences from 258 participants to find that medical cannabis (referred to in the study as “MC”) was used to treat symptoms of menopause. The study recorded that 86.1% of participants currently consume cannabis, and 78.7% use it specifically to treat menopause-related symptoms through either smoking (84.3%) and edibles (78.3%). The main symptoms patients were using cannabis to treat included sleep disturbance (67.4%) and mood/anxiety (46.1%). “In particular, perimenopausal participants reported significantly greater severity and prevalence of mood/anxiety symptoms…

ALOHA, HIGH TIMES READER! I STILL REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME MY DAD CAME HOME FROM work with an ounce of “Big Bud” and asked me if I had some friends that I could sell some to. He said if we could get rid of it, we’d each make $100. It was the height of the recession and I was a broke 20-year-old who had to leave school because of complications with my financial aid, so I was in. That night I broke the ounce down into eighths and dubs on my grandpa’s postage scale (later I’d graduate to the triple beam and then finally the higher volume digital versions) and made some phone calls. By the end of the weekend, I had gotten rid of it and my dad was…

DATA, DEFINED BY MERRIAM-WEBSTER AS “FACTUAL INFORMATION USED as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation,” allows for proposals and decisions to be better informed, more equitable, and more likely to protect the rights of both consumers and businesses. For the legal cannabis industry, data plays a vital role in supporting potential benefits, justified calls for reforms, and messaging about the issues that are most important to stakeholders and society alike. Those often include touting policies and best practices for the provision of goods and services that are accessible and culturally relevant. Since our founding in 2014, New Frontier Data has established itself in the legal cannabis space through reliable, unbiased, agnostic, and original data which previously had not been available to curious investors or interested stakeholders due to the…

THE VOICE OF THE UNDERREPRESENTED NEEDS TO BE HEARD, AND THERE are organizations backed by teams who rise to the occasion. Founded in 2015 by Black and Brown women in cannabis, Supernova Women aims to empower Black and Brown people to become self-sufficient in the long haul. About seven years ago, Amber Senter joined Nina Parks, and Tsion “Sunshine” Lencho to launch Supernova as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization to solve real problems happening all around them. They noticed the glaring lack of Black and Brown business owners. Senter is also CEO of Makr House and EquityWorks! Incubator, a shared kitchen for licensed social equity operators who produce edibles, topicals, and pre-rolls. Parks founded Gift of Doja, while Lencho works as an attorney. Others would join Supernova Women’s board later, including…

I WAS A VEGETARIAN FOR FIVE YEARS BEFORE TRANSITIONING TO PESCATARIAN. Then I ate bison meat only (because it is still against federal law to inject hormones or antibiotics in bison), and I’m now eating everything in moderation so I never miss a delicious infused dish prepared by our awesome chefs. Mama Taylor adds a dash and sprinkle here until it feels right, so apologies in advance for the lack of quantities. INGREDIENTS: 3-pound bison brisketYour favorite seasonings to marinade… the Taylors recommend: Adam’s Texas style slow rub, Kinder’s carne asada rub, Grill Mates sweet & smoky rub, McCormick spicy Montreal steak, McCormick applewood rubDose of Saucy “Sweet Heat” Texas-style BBQ sauceChicken stockOlive oilPellet smoker or charcoal smokerOklahoma Joe’s smoke butcher paper DIRECTIONS: 1. Fully thaw the bison brisket and…

On Oct. 17, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed B24-0981, also called the “Medical Marijuana Patient Access Extension Second Emergency Amendment Act of 2022” which allows nonresidents visiting the capital the right to self-certify themselves as temporary medical cannabis patients without needing a doctor’s recommendation. Interested visitors must receive a 30-day registration from the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration (ABRA), and then they can purchase cannabis from local, licensed dispensaries (this also applies to patients who live in other states where medical cannabis is allowed). According to ABRA, patients are allowed to possess up to eight ounces during the 30-day period. This emergency action is the second of its kind to be enacted in 2022, the first of which was a law that Bowser signed in July 2022 to allow Washington,…

On the first day of adult-use cannabis sales in New Jersey in April 2022, cannabis was available to purchase through seven medical cannabis businesses. Six months later on Oct. 25, the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC) announced that it had approved its first 18 annual adult-use cannabis business licenses. “This is a special milestone for the Commission and for New Jersey’s new legalized industry. With the awarding of eight cultivation licenses and three manufacturing licenses we are setting good groundwork for New Jersey’s cannabis market,” CRC Chairwoman Dianna Houenou said in a statement. “We hope to see these facilities up and running as soon as possible to be local Garden State suppliers to the seven retailers who also got their annuals today and the others that will be licensed…

GREETINGS 2023, AND A KIND WELCOME TO ALL OF our loyal High Times Magazine readers. I have been dreaming of the day that I would have the opportunity and honor to interview one of the single most committed and respected leaders in the world of psychedelic research and psychedelic healing: Rick Doblin, Ph.D, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). In 1986, Doblin founded MAPS for the primary purpose of keeping MDMA legalized for therapeutic purposes, but also to support researching the benefits of the other psychedelics as well. Doblin’s advocacy stretches back to his college days. For his undergraduate thesis at the New College of Florida, he revisited the Good Friday Experiment (originally conducted in 1962), which explored the intersection of psychedelics and religious experiences, 25 years…

ON AN EARLY MORNING IN OCTOBER, AN ACRE OF CANNABIS greets the morning sun in upstate New York. It grows about 90 minutes north of New York City and belongs to HPI Canna. This is its inaugural legal, recreational venture. The company went into business as HPI Farma in 2018 after receiving a license to grow hemp. It planted 40 acres in a pilot run in Kingston, New York, but HPI realized its future depended upon a bigger farm. It found a 434-acre spread in Poughkeepsie and in the following three years, HPI Farma cultivated 200 acres of CBD hemp on its land. Today, the brain trust of HPI Canna is looking forward to harvest, set to begin tomorrow. It’s hard to believe. I’ve lived in New York for nearly…

These days in the cannabis industry, recognizable brands are often the key to gaining consumer sales. The first tenant of a successful cultivation-related company is quality cannabis, but after that, it helps to have a compelling brand story. 40 Tons has both of those things. The people behind the cannabis and streetwear company have had their lives irrevocably changed by cannabis convictions and have built upon that history to re-enter the game of selling weed, this time on the legal side of the street. The company’s name alludes to the amount of cannabis in a multi-year criminal conspiracy to which they are linked. After serving jail time, with one person facing a lifetime sentence, a presidential pardon offered a second chance. The friends behind 40 Tons used that chance to…

“Sex, drugs, and rock & roll, baby!” That is the Freddie Gibbs story, at least according to the man himself. Posted up at a Los Angeles restaurant just hours before his latest album $oul $old $eparately was to arrive, Gibbs was in good spirits, seemingly without a care in the world. He flirted with the waitress, flashed his 1,000-watt smile as he spoke and laughed easily, a stark contrast from the Gangsta Gibbs persona that is sprinkled throughout his catalog. Growing up in Gary, Indiana (which he proudly pointed out is the same city where Michael Jackson was born), Gibbs’s household soared with the sounds of Motown. Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and The Isley Brothers wove his musical fabric—then he discovered Too $hort and The Geto Boys’s Scarface. He knew…

IN A NUT SHELL, THE CURRENT STATE OF INTERNA TIONAL CANNABIS trade is significantly limited. Currently, only highly regulated medical and scientific exports exist for the most part. China is the clear-cut winner in terms of being the top global exporter of both hemp fibers and low-THC oils. But the much bigger prize is the power of potent medical cannabis exports to be used in pharmaceutical settings, which can turn simple cannabis companies into global powerhouses. A checkerboard of strict regulations for medical cannabis exports are beginning to be liberalized—particularly in Israel, Denmark, Australia, and Canada, with recent reforms taking place in Colombia. Multinational cannabis operators like Canada-based Flora Growth and PharmaCielo, and Colombia-based Clever Leaves are just beginning to expand with footprints across the globe, growing cannabis in one…

The North African country of Morocco recently made headway in progressing its medical cannabis program, starting with approving growing permits. On Oct. 4, the Cannabis Activities Regulatory Agency (ANRAC), which met for the first time back in June 2022, announced that it had approved 10 cannabis cultivation permits to be used for cannabis processing and manufacturing. According to WION News, licenses are given “only within the limits of the quantities needed to meet the needs for the manufacture of products for medical, pharmaceutical and therapeutic purposes.” The goal of the October ANRAC meeting was to discuss the “final stages” of implementing Law 13-21, a medical cannabis legalization law passed in May 2021, according to Morocco World News. The law states that cultivation will first be allowed only in the Al…