Cannabis Culture is a Vancouver-rooted marijuana magazine that has covered the plant, the politics and the counterculture around it since the mid-nineties.
Who they are
A long-running magazine operating out of West Hastings Street in Vancouver, built on named regulars rather than a newsroom. Chris Bennett writes cannabis history, David Malmo-Levine writes activism, and Jeff Scharf files the strain column. Syndicated items from policy and trade outlets run alongside the original work.
What they cover
Legalisation politics on both sides of the border, with heavy attention to Canadian provincial rules and to US federal rescheduling. Beyond the news desk sit growing, medical research, hemp, arts and the activism beat the magazine was built on. Two idiosyncratic strands set it apart: a serialised chapter-by-chapter history of prohibition, and a run of essays tracing cannabis through the ancient Near East. The Local Noze reviews craft flower batch by batch — strain-level coverage rather than market coverage.
Format and cadence
A continuously updating website organised into News, Grow, Activism, Medical, Arts and Hemp, posting every few days rather than hourly. Long historical essays sit next to short policy items, so the archive reads as part magazine, part activist library.
Who it's for
Readers who came to cannabis through legalisation rather than commerce: growers, patients, activists, and anyone who wants the plant's history taken seriously. Business coverage appears, but the framing is civil rights first. Readers who want the same lineage with an American centre of gravity have High Times.
Where to find them
The website carries everything, with Instagram, X and Facebook accounts echoing the headlines outward.
Background and significance
Cannabis Culture traces its origins to Marc Emery's Marijuana & Hemp newsletter in 1994, later becoming Cannabis Canada and then Cannabis Culture as its coverage expanded internationally. Its archive documents legalization campaigns, prohibition, cultivation, history and counterculture from a strongly activist perspective.
Distinctive role
Long-form work on drug-war politics, civil disobedience, cannabis history and activist organizations sits beside cultivation and cultural material. Readers looking for market intelligence will find other trade publications more direct; Cannabis Culture is most useful for understanding the political and cultural movements that preceded and shaped today's legal industry.