by Brooke Blazr | Jun 16, 2026 | High Dispatch
As cannabis becomes increasingly normalized across the United States, former professional basketball player Jarred Shaw remains imprisoned overseas on cannabis-related charges. Organizers of next month’s Michigan Vlasic Classic hope to change that. Returning to St....
by Brooke Blazr | Jun 16, 2026 | High Dispatch
We often think about the marijuana industry as this sleeping giant, but it’s really just a baby. This space so many of us have chosen is still in its infancy, and the choices we make today — as consumers and as cannabis professionals — have the power to impact the...
by Brooke Blazr | Jun 16, 2026 | High Dispatch
Tyler Cowen published a piece in The Free Press recently asking whether we should recriminalize marijuana. He landed, sensibly, against it. The comment section of his blog filled up with the usual range: suburban homeowners insisting legalization ruined New York...
by Brooke Blazr | Jun 15, 2026 | High Dispatch
Picture this. You finally make it to camp, drop your packs and you break out the pre-rolls. But just as everyone starts to settle in, the wind picks up, you forget which backpack the lighter’s buried in and suddenly your big plans to blaze aren’t as effortless as it...
by Brooke Blazr | Jun 12, 2026 | High Dispatch
Cannabis and Proposition 215—the Compassionate Use Act of 1996—are intimately intertwined with the LGBTQ+ community. The reward was born from the guts of the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and ’90s, a public health crisis in full view of an indifferent government. The...
by Brooke Blazr | Jun 12, 2026 | High Dispatch
The bill, passed with bipartisan support, would allow terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana for pain management even while hospitalized. That’s the story. That’s the bill. And somewhere in the machinery of American governance, enough people had...
