Behind the bolted steel doors of an old brick warehouse, Big Wes meets a nutrient company scientist to see if he can increase his crop yield. Rows of hydroponic marijuana plants soak up solution flowing through plastic troughs and light blazing from high-pressure sodium lamps. Big Wes has spent more than half his life calibratingRead More …

In case you haven’t heard, the Pope has joined Twitter. And, more importantly, you can now ask him anything. Well, almost anything. Just in time for the Advent season, the pontiff – known to Catholics the world over as Pope Benedict XVI – officially joined the social networking site on Monday. Using the handle @PontifexRead More …

Haze varieties of cannabis have their roots in Central America. Landrace strains from this area are noted for their distinct upbeat high and sweet and sour, tangy aroma. True Hazes are pure Sativa and grow incredibly tall and leggy. You need a big grow room to successfully rear a full-sized Haze indoors. Buds are lightRead More …

Sometimes the weather’s bad enough outside that the last thing you want is to bring it into your lounge, but that hasn’t stopped the experimental arm of a German design company, Micasa Lab, from creating a weather-predicting lamp. Called Nebula 12 it gathers meterological data from the UK-based Met Office and recreates the forecast inRead More …

On 9 May 2012, two weeks after the reopening of the Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum in Amsterdam, the Hash Marihuana Cáñamo & Hemp Museum was officially opened in Barcelona, Spain. This new stunning venue was opened by Josep Maria Faricgla and saw the evening culminate in the second part of the 2012 Cannabis CultureRead More …

Angry farmers protesting at falling dairy prices in the EU have sprayed fresh milk at the European Parliament and riot police in Brussels. Thousands of dairy farmers, accompanied by hundreds of tractors, descended on the Belgian capital on Monday for two days of demonstrations. Disruption has continued, with EU officials hindered from reaching their officesRead More …

Here it is, Thanksgiving Day! But the Cannabis Cup is its own special feast day. After five days of sampling the best cannabis products in the world, judges from around the world have selected the premier strains of cannabis and the most outstanding hashish featured at the 25th annual HIGH TIMES Cannabis Cup. Tonight, theyRead More …

Looks like the Soviets really built an UFO, or at least a building which looks like an RLV, a reusable launch vehicle… According to Timothy Allen the Communist UFO-shaped Buzludzha building (pronounced Buz’ol’ja) in the Balkan Mountains is Bulgaria’s largest ideological monument to Communism which was left to ruin after the revolution in 1989. Nowadays,Read More …

Low Stress Training, or LST, refers to any method of training your cannabis plants without causing them stress in the way that topping or pruning might. As with most methods of trying to improve the yield of your cannabis plants, LST seeks to make the most efficient use of light. According to the inverse squareRead More …

White Strains of cannabis is a generic term, coined to describe certain cannabis strains that are so called because of the way they seem to shimmer under the light. The buds, and often the leaves, of white cannabis strains are covered with cobwebs of thick trichomes which produce huge amounts of shiny crystals of THCRead More …