High Adam

To mark the 30th anniversary of the passage of the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, the activists, organizers and campaigners who helped get Proposition 215 passed will be collectively honored with the Pebbles Trippet Lifetime Achievement Award at this Saturday’s California Cannabis Awards at the California State Fair. Historic Prop.

The Pioneer league champion Oakland Ballers announced today the team will make its debut as the herb-friendly Oakland Blazers — haze green uniforms and all — on July 31 when they face off against the RedPocket Mobiles.

The Oakland Blazers alternate team identity floated as an April Fools’ Day joke will become a reality according to team reps. A half-baked idea, repurposed as a last-minute April Fools’ Day joke, to temporarily turn the Oakland Ballers into the herb-green, pot-leaf-emblazoned Oakland Blazers has been such a big hit with fans that the baseball team has decided to officially adopt the alternate identity in the upcoming season.

Even though I’ve never smoked the legendary cultivar Strawberry Cough, I have certainly heard it — it’s one of those names that’s familiar enough herb heads and non-herb heads alike that it can be used as shorthand for weed without actually saying “weed." (I’m imaging Danny McBride’s Kenny Powers character uttering a pejorative “Have a little more Strawberry Cough there Smokey Robinson”).

Discover more from High Adam Welcome to my "smokestack" -- the place where I muse about the plant we light on fire. As a wise man (and by that I mean me) once said: "You can't spell Tschorn without THC." Already have an account? Sign in Faux protestors, props and weed-swag gift bags aim for "the kind of hang people will be talking about the next day." Jason Biggs, center with “Operation Taco Gary’s co-stars Arturo Castro (second from right) and Brenda Song (far right) at the movie’s Feb.

For 2026, the California Cannabis Awards adds a new category for the backyard farmer. Here's what you need to know. Emerald Spirit Botanicals’ Joseph Haggard (left) and Sonoma Hills Farm’s Joyce Cenali (right) took home Golden Bear trophies at last year’s California Cannabis Awards. This year, the awards are adding a Home Grow — Flower competition. Are you a Golden State ganja green thumb with a knack for growing backyard bud?

An AI-generated image created by ChatGPT based on the prompt: “Superimpose a cannabis leaf onto the cover of the current issue of The Old Farmer’s Almanac.” The Old Farmer’s Almanac garnered some serious attention on canna-centric social media last month when it was noticed that the devil’s lettuce had been added to the OFA’s online Planting and Gardening Guide for the first time — listed right there between candytuft and cantaloupes.

For the fifth installment of my occasional series that tasks plant power players to plot the perfect party, I buttonholed Jocelyn Sheltraw, co-founder and CEO of cannabis rating and review platform Budist, which is co-sponsoring the inaugural bicoastal MJBowl at weed industry trade show MJBizCon in Las Vegas early next month.

I recently had the pleasure of spending a few hours with Michael Aldrich and his wife Michelle in the San Francisco apartment they’ve lived in since the first Nixon administration. Michael, who earned the nickname “Dr. Dope” because he authored the first doctoral dissertation on cannabis in the United States, “Marijuana Myths and Folklore” back in 1970 is a true legend in the weed world and anyone who can legally spark a joint today owes him and his wife a huge debt of gratitude.

For the fourth installment of Sketch a Sesh — in which I get high-profile pot people to put together their perfect party — I went as high-profile as you can get in today’s media weed world by asking the editor-in-chief of High Times magazine, Javier Hasse, whose temporary role at the top of the masthead was just announced as permanent. The Buenos Aires-based, longtime cannabis journo served up a Caribbean cabal of creatives with a couple of curveballs along the way.