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Who better to spend the holidays with than John Waters? Few artists are as festive as Mr. Waters, who releases holiday covers and tours with A John Waters Christmas — evenings of storytelling and indispensable life advice from the filmmaker behind Female Trouble, Hairspray, Polyester, Multiple Maniacs, and Pink Flamingos, to name a few of his indisputable classics. Waters is nothing if not a Renaissance man. He’s the bestselling author of Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America, Role Models, and his most recent published work, Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance, long overdue for its planned film adaptation. On top of his…

A new chapter begins for Chilean politics. After winning the runoff election against candidate Jeannette Jara by 58% to 41%, President-elect José Antonio Kast represents another milestone in the country’s political back-and-forth: a society seemingly unafraid to swing from right to left, and back again. But what about the future of progressive policy agendas under the new government? What is its historical stance on cannabis and the struggles surrounding it? Are heated debates, such as those that cannabis regulation could generate, indefinitely on hold, or are new opportunities on the horizon? Over time, José Antonio Kast’s statements have revealed a…

CBD’s reputation still lingers somewhere between yoga studios and grandparents’ medicine cabinets. College students did not get that memo. According to a new, large-scale study from the University of Georgia, nearly half of college students have tried CBD, and close to one in three use it at least once a month. The reasons are familiar to anyone who has ever pulled an all-nighter, juggled classes with a job, or stared at the ceiling at 3 a.m., wondering why sleep will not happen. Anxiety. Stress. Sleep. And yes, friends offering it at a party. The biggest CBD study on college students…

For an article in the December, 1979 edition of High Times, late, great counterculture correspondent Glenn O’Brien examined the connections between Santa Claus and a specific kind of psychedelic mushroom known as the fly agaric, aka the toadstool that conquered the universe. In fact, the existence of Santa could be related to a shaman in Lapland who ate Amanita muscaria. Even the government supports the compelling association between Santa and the fly agaric. Was Santa a mushroom eater?The Secret Funk GospelsThe Santa Connection This year, as usual, you’re going to get a lot of reminders on the subject of the…

For years, critics of cannabis reform have leaned on the same warning: legal weed will lead to more teens using marijuana. The data keeps telling a different story. According to newly released, federally funded survey data compiled by researchers at the University of Michigan, teen marijuana use has continued its long-term decline and now sits at or near historic lows, even as more states regulate legal cannabis for adults. What the latest numbers show The findings come from the Monitoring the Future survey, one of the longest-running and most widely cited federal drug-use studies in the country, funded by the…

Inside Trump’s marijuana meeting; State AGs tell SCOTUS: Keep cannabis user gun ban; Fed study: Teen marijuana use “stable”; Cannabis & holidays 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… By starting a $10 per month pledge on Patreon—or about 45 cents per issue of this newsletter—you can help us rely less on ads to cover our expenses, hire more journalists and bring you even more marijuana news.https://www.patreon.com/marijuanamoment/ TOP THINGS TO KNOWSen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO)…

A Department of Defense (DoD)-funded clinical trial will study MDMA-assisted therapy paired with Massed Prolonged Exposure for PTSD in active-duty service members. For decades, MDMA lived far outside the walls of official medicine. Let alone the U.S. military. That wall just moved. The U.S. Department of Defense is funding a $4.9 million clinical trial investigating MDMA-assisted therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder in active-duty service members, marking a notable shift in how far psychedelic research has traveled into the federal mainstream. The study is led by researchers at Emory University and the STRONG STAR Consortium, and is examining the safety and…

This article originally appeared in High Times Magazine’s 50th Anniversary Print Issue. Order yours here and get it delivered to your door. The roads are quieter now in the Emerald Triangle. On stretches of State Route 299, the sight of logging trucks has returned. Humboldt County’s timber economy once defined the region—until environmental restrictions, overharvesting, and shifts in global trade forced its decline in the 1990s. Cannabis filled the gap. What followed was another cycle of boom, regulation, and retreat—weed and wood: two strands shaping the DNA of California’s North Coast. Fishing faded. Mills closed. Tourism never quite arrived. The…

Federally funded survey data compiled by the University of Michigan reports that teen marijuana use has declined significantly since states began regulating adult-use cannabis markets and is now at or near historic lows. Consistent with numerous other federally sponsored surveys, teens’ use of cannabis has steadily declined since 2012 — when voters in Colorado and Washington passed ballot initiatives regulating the adult-use marijuana market. To date, 24 states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana use for those 21 and older. Between 2012 and 2025, the percentage of 12th graders reporting having ever used cannabis fell 23 percent. Among…

Lawmakers push for more marijuana reform; MA anti-cannabis ballot signatures; NJ psilocybin vote; Poll: Americans use marijuana for holiday stress 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 got a…