Cannabis has been part of South American history for nearly five centuries, yet its role on the continent has never been fixed. It arrived as an Old World plant carried through European colonial networks, was cultivated as hemp for fiber,…
Australia’s relationship with cannabis is far older and more complicated than the modern debate over legalization suggests. The plant arrived with European settlement as an agricultural and medicinal commodity, became part of nineteenth-century pharmacy, disappeared into prohibition during the twentieth…
The 2020 Oregon High Times Cannabis Cup: People’s Choice Edition arrived during a year that forced both the cannabis industry and High Times to rethink how a major competition could operate. Oregon had hosted its first official High Times Cannabis…
The 2020 Illinois High Times Cannabis Cup: People’s Choice Edition arrived at almost the exact moment Illinois cannabis entered a new era. Adult-use sales had begun on January 1, 2020, only months before the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted public gatherings across…
The 2021 High Times Hemp Cup: People’s Choice Edition captured the American hemp industry at one of the most experimental moments in its modern history. Instead of taking place at a convention center or festival grounds, the competition operated nationwide,…
The 2019 High Times Cannabis Cup Bay Area brought one of cannabis culture’s best-known competitions back to the San Francisco region for a two-day celebration of cultivation, concentrates, infused products, glass and music. Held June 22–23, 2019, at the Cow…
The 2020 High Times Cannabis Cup Colorado: People’s Choice Edition became one of the most consequential competitions in the history of the Colorado Cup—not because it was the biggest festival High Times had staged in Denver, but because it represented…
Canada and the United States belong near the top of any serious discussion about countries with high cannabis use. New Zealand also reports substantial use, while Australia, Uruguay, Spain, France, and Czechia feature prominently in national and regional research. However,…
The 2021 High Times Cannabis Cup Arizona: People’s Choice Edition marked a major milestone for the state’s rapidly developing cannabis market. Although Arizona had operated a medical marijuana program for years, the 2021 competition was the first High Times Cannabis…
The 2018 High Times Cannabis Cup Amsterdam, held July 13–15, 2018, became the closing chapter of a competition tradition that had begun in the Netherlands three decades earlier. Unlike the classic Thanksgiving-week Cups of the 1990s and 2000s, the 2018…
The 2017 High Times Cannabis Cup was not simply another stop on the expanding Cannabis Cup circuit. Held in Amsterdam from November 19 through November 22, 2017, the event marked High Times’ return to the city where the competition had…
The 2014 High Times Cannabis Cup became one of the most historically important editions in the competition’s long Amsterdam story, though not for the reasons organizers originally intended. Held November 23–27, 2014, the 27th annual Amsterdam Cannabis Cup was supposed…
