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WOMEN HAVE BEEN using cannabis since the birth of civilization. From ancient Chinese and Mesopotamian women to the 19th century’s Queen Victoria, cannabis has been used to provide relief from pain and mental anguish. And yet, in the past century, women have been hesitant to talk about their cannabis use, or even try it. The criminalization of, and negative stigma surrounding, cannabis use was, and still is, stifling—especially for women. But today, despite the stigma (or, perhaps, to spite it), there are more women than ever before unabashedly sharing their love of the plant. More important, we’re seeing more female representation in every sector of the cannabis space. This uptick is also seen in cannabis-adjacent spheres—like journalism. As the digital editor of High Times, I’ve had the distinct honor and…

Missouri is growing a new medical-marijuana program, but it’s against federal law to import seeds into the state. So how do growers get started, knowing they’ll need to begin supplying dispensaries with product in just a few months? “It’s Immaculate Conception is what the industry-deemed word is,” Gerry Donovan, owner of Emerald Garden in Kansas City, told KSHB’s Action News. Translation: Authorities don’t know where legitimate growers are getting their seeds, and they don’t really want to know. Basically, they’re going to look the other way without asking too many questions. “The department cannot advise anyone on where to obtain the means to grow marijuana,” the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said in a statement. The Show Me State is the 33rd in the US to legalize medical…

NEW YORK’S HIGH Waisted were born on a dance floor when guitarist/front woman Jessica Louise Dye and drummer Jono Bernstein gyrated into each other’s paths. “She said, ‘Hey, do you wanna go see Lou Reed?’” recalls Bernstein of the night the pair met. “I was like, ‘No I’m gonna get a slice of pizza.’” “Lou Reed died two weeks later,” points out Dye. “Well, the slice place is also gone now,” retorts Bernstein. “So in retrospect, it’s like we both got to see some of our favorites off!” The easygoing camaraderie between the two friends is just one element of High Waisted’s joie de vivre. Sporting a Kool-Aid–bright aesthetic and armed with confetti cannons, the band has spent the past six years livening up nighttime scenes across the country with…

ALIX HADLEY C.R.A.F.T. CANNABIS Alix Hadley is the CEO and cofounder of C.R.A.F.T. Cannabis, a boutique cannabis company located in California’s Bay Area. Hadley is a master cultivator and entrepreneur with 20-plus years of organic farming/gardening experience. She produces some of the most exotic strains available in California as evidenced by C.R.A.F.T.’s multiple cannabis-competition awards and accolades from High Times, East Bay Express and Patients’ Choice. RYLIE MAEDLER RYLIE’S SUNSHINE Rylie Maedler is the teenage powerhouse and CEO behind Rylie’s Sunshine and the founder of the Rylie’s Smile Foundation nonprofit. She has helped pass five laws granting access to medical cannabis for sick children in her home state of Delaware, and she is supporting additional laws being presented this legislative session, including one related to nurse-administered cannabis on school grounds.…

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Be the Change My 11-year-old daughter was born with frontal lobe epilepsy and would experience up to 65 seizures a day. She has been introduced to 17 different pharmaceuticals in her short life, [including] barbiturates and opioids, and none of these pharmaceuticals decreased her seizure activity. In 2016, she had exhausted all of Western medicine’s options. I immediately began researching CBD and in March 2017, I began medicating her with CBD. She has been a [medical cannabis] patient [since] and her seizures have decreased by 85-90%. On September 4, 2019, she was removed from DC public schools because… there are no laws in place for children to medicate in DC schools or charter schools. My daughter was out of school for three days, but within those three days, I blazed…

Vaping is bad now, apparently. According to the Centers for Disease Control, at least 26 people have died from e-cigs and some 1300 nonfatal lung-injury cases have been reported around the United States. The malady already has its own acronym—VAPI, for “vaping-associated pulmonary injury.” Most ominously for stoners, the CDC says “the latest national and regional findings suggest products containing THC play a role in the outbreak,” even though “no single product or substance has been linked to all lung injury cases,” and of course more information is needed before we start naming names. That said, it might be wise to avoid Dank Vapes, which is an illegally run brand of vaping products, as it is implicated in a number of VAPI cases. In fact, maybe avoid illicit pens and…

J.J. McCoy is Senior Managing Editor for New Frontier Data BY 2014, GIADHA Aguirre de Carcer had already established a career through 20 years of experience in business execution, management and strategic business development with an emphasis on emerging markets. She had gained her professional chops through each of the defense, technology and telecommunications sectors before working in investment banking for JPMorgan Chase in Manhattan and London, and running Florida-based First Federal Transportation as its co-founder and chief operating officer. So when she realized the trending momentum for a legal cannabis industry and recognized the vacuum for much-needed vetted data, actionable business intelligence and risk-management solutions for investors, operators, researchers and policymakers in the burgeoning space, she founded New Frontier Data. Now her independent, technology-driven analytics company has offices in…

MICHKA SEELIGER-CHATELAIN and I are in her cozy kitchen in Paris, knives in hand, chopping vegetables on wooden boards while sirens blow by on the boulevard below us. Her favorite traditional Moroccan pipe waits in the cut-glass ashtray beside a flickering beeswax candle; a ceramic lid rattles gently as steam escapes the rice pot on the stove. Ever since I was a young teenager, we have spent time this way, chatting deeply like women have done for millennia over the preparation of food. But this time she has some big news to share. As we pack the bowl with a crumble of precious Haze that has made a heroic journey and pass it between us with our garlicky hands, Michka confides that she is being honored by Sensi Seeds with…

IN THE UNITED STATES, legal cannabis pulled in a smooth $10.4 billion in 2018, making it a banner year for pot profits. And the industry is on track to smash that record in 2019. All that prosperity is cause for good cheer—unless you or someone you love is one of the 40,000 people sitting in US jails for the same cannabis-related actions that are now making others rich. Over the past 10 years, as the recreational- and medicinal-marijuana industries have grown, 15 million people have been arrested on cannabis-related charges. Not all of them have been able to erase the negative marks that this encounter with the justice system had on their lives. Cannabis entrepreneurs (and even consumers) benefiting from now-legal marijuana should feel some responsibility to help those who…

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An Ohio man was incensed when police confiscated his stash, so he did what any red-blooded stoner would do and… called 911 to complain. “I had two cops come here and steal my fucking weed and I want it back,” the unidentified man barked at a police sergeant. “It was only like four grams, but it was, like, you know, prestige weed—and the motherfuckers took it!” The dude was righteous about his weed but wrong on the law, since he seemed to think such a small amount of herb was no biggie. “And from what I know, 100 grams is cool, right?” he continued. “Or am I wrong?” In a pot-pun-laden Facebook post, the Sharonville Police Department did what it could to set the record straight: “To be blunt, recreational…

When cops say they smell weed in your car, that’s usually all they need to search it—and maybe even you—without a warrant, at least in New York. But recently a Bronx judge decreed that something doesn’t smell right about this. “The time has come to reject the canard of marijuana emanating from nearly every vehicle subject to a traffic stop,” Judge April Newbauer wrote in a decision, as reported by the New York Times. “So ubiquitous has police testimony about odors from cars become that it should be subject to a heightened level of scrutiny if it is to supply the grounds for a search,” the judge continued. As startling as it is to hear a judge say that cops tell lies on the regular, it is perhaps a sign…

MARKET ANALYSIS Prices by the ounce All indices finished the month below their December averages. The US Price, Southern and Western indices were down for the third consecutive month and experienced major drops of -$10, -$10 and -$13 respectively. After hitting a year-high average price of $310 per ounce in October, the US Price has tumbled all the way down to $293 per ounce. TRANS HIGH MARKET QUOTATIONS High Times wants to know what you’re smoking. Submit your strain information including location and price by the ounce to thmq@hightimes.com, or tweet us (#THMQ).…

Up your party-food game with deliciously briny, citrusy olives infused with kief! Satisfyingly salty and healthy, and packing a customizable punch of THC, marinated cannabis olives are perfect for any festive spread. The weed-infused citrus oil is a great base for all kinds of edible fun, and after the olives disappear you can soak it up with crusty bread, drizzle it on hummus or even use it for some extra kick in a dirty canna-martini. INGREDIENTS 1 g. kief (change amount to suit desired dosage)1 medium orange1 medium lemon¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil.25 ml (a drop about the size of a pea) sunflowerliquid lecithin2 tsp. red-wine vinegar5 bay leaves2 garlic cloves2 thyme sprigs1 rosemary sprig1½ cups (12 oz.) mixed black and green olives, pitted DIRECTIONS To decarboxylate the kief, preheat…

E-mail your hi-res digital photographs to mailbag@hightimes.com FLOWER OF THE MONTH FOXY LADY Here’s a shot of my organic sunroom-grown Silver Fox for the Pix-of-the-Crop section if interested in publishing. ~Peace~ J.D. (A.K.A. Cola Monster) Sonoma County STASH OF THE MONTH PHENO HYPE Have you seen this before? It’s the same strain (Gooberry) but some of it came out green and some came out purple. Confused in CO. NUG OF THE MONTH TABLE TOP Here’s a sampling of this year’s harvest. Nothing feels or tastes as good as homegrown! RIP Robert Hunter COLA OF THE MONTH PURPLE REIGN This beauty was grown on an all-female collective farm using JADAM Korean farming techniques. Darling Nikki…