Author: admin

I’ve spent years watching cannabis content evolve, and most of it follows the same rhythm. Fast edits. Trending sounds. Quick hits. Then I came across Cough Creative, and something felt different before I could even explain why. The pacing was calm. The visuals felt familiar. It didn’t rush you. It invited you in. Ally Train isn’t just making cannabis content. She’s building atmosphere. Drawing inspiration from old nature documentaries, her work blends humor, comfort, and intention in a space that often prioritizes speed over substance. Behind the aesthetic is discipline, lived experience, and a deep understanding of how storytelling can…

Read More

Dry January is no longer just a detox. What began as a post-holiday pause from drinking has evolved into a cultural reassessment of how people relax, socialize, and manage stress. Each January, millions of Americans step back from alcohol not simply to recover from the excesses of the holidays, but to question a deeper assumption: that alcohol is the default reward, social lubricant, and stress reliever in adult life. In recent years, that assumption has started to crack. Rising awareness around mental health, sleep quality, inflammation, and long-term wellness has led many people to look for alternatives that align more…

Read More

The science of sleep: an ephemeral paradise. Colors, flashes, digressions, backdrops, and shapes. Raw intensity. Dreams within dreams. There’s an architecture in the arms of Morpheus. And for frequent cannabis smokers, a joint can act as the great conciliator. Light up, smoke, and drift off. But, but, but: what happens to sleep when regular pot smokers stop using it? Does anything change? Do dreams become more intense? Do nightmares surface? Are there alterations within the dream phenomenon? Does something reset and return us to square one? “It’s likely that cannabis slightly alters the REM phase and the sleep phase, possibly…

Read More

FL medical marijuana expansion; New ad cheers Trump’s rescheduling move; OH gov slams cannabis referendum; NJ medical marijuana patient count drops Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Your good deed for the day: donate to an independent publisher like Marijuana Moment and ensure that as many voters as possible have access to the most in-depth cannabis reporting out there. Danny Brown: “Your timely and accurate reporting are the best in the industry. It…

Read More

With over 55 million cannabis fans in America, 2025 was a year of big wins and stinging losses. From headway in the hash world and LA’s indoor farms to High Times’ resurgence and landmark findings in the scientific world, the ganja news came like a firehose in 2025, and here’s a distillation of the top items. Schedule III, finally Rescheduling screen grab, Courtesy of The White House. Cannabis supporters spent much of 2025 waiting for the federal government to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I (the “most dangerous” list) to Schedule III (think: Tylenol with codeine). That process finally began on…

Read More

High Times officially turned the lights back on July 16, 2025. We didn’t relaunch anything. We reopened the site and started publishing again. And pretty quickly, it became clear that the thing still worked. When the doors open and the work is real, people show up. Writers. Readers. Artists. Growers. Longtime supporters and people discovering High Times for the first time. Consider this a mid-flight check-in. Here’s what we’ve been working on, with you in the room. The Work: Publishing Again, Every Day A big part of this year was reopening the pipeline. Submissions, pitches, ideas, drafts. Some from longtime…

Read More

TX hemp rules; FL legalization lawsuit; CA marijuana research grants; Study: DUI laws jail innocent cannabis users; Biggest marijuana stories of 2025 Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… BREAKING: Journalism is often consumed for free, but costs money to produce! While this newsletter is proudly sent without cost to you, our ability to send it each day depends on the financial support of readers who can afford to give it. So if you’ve…

Read More

High Times just dropped “Don’t Be A Clown,” a lean cannabis satire written, directed and produced by Dan Levy Dagerman (High Concept Entertainment), in partnership with High Times Magazine and Official Cannabis Seed Company. It stars Luke Jones, Eric Ochoa, Gata, Lynette Shaw, Charley Rossman and Brooke Burgstahler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkbKvry72vM It cold-opens like a preview: Arty under an interrogation light, the pressure rising, a bucket nearby, and the refrain that haunts the film—“Where’d you get it?”—already in play. Smash to the title run. Chapter One: Tears of a Clown. Arty is spiraling because he’s running out of weed. He calls the…

Read More

VA gov-elect talks marijuana legislation; Poll: Bipartisan legalization support; AZ anti-cannabis ballot measure; Nurses groups cheer rescheduling Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Your good deed for the day: donate to an independent publisher like Marijuana Moment and ensure that as many voters as possible have access to the most in-depth cannabis reporting out there.Support our work at https://www.patreon.com/marijuanamoment/ TOP THINGS TO KNOWA new Congressional Research Service report suggests that the Department of…

Read More

In 2025, cannabis policy did not move in a straight line toward legalization. It got stranger.This has happened beforeThe pattern is clear A bunch of governments went after the edges of the cannabis universe. Not the plant, not the users, not the actual harms. They went after the accessories, the imagery, the loopholes, the chemistry, the entire culture. Some of these bans were predictable if you follow the politics. Others were so strange you almost have to reread the headline. Taken together, they reveal something bigger. A global shift toward regulating cannabis by controlling its interfaces: what it looks like,…

Read More