Is Everyone High?

Summer, 2026

More Americans now get high daily than drink daily. How weed went from counterculture to background noise.

BY JACK TIEN-DANA

If residue found in tombs buried deep in the remote Pamir Mountains of western China can be trusted, humans have been smoking marijuana since 500 BC. These early adopters, archaeologists posit, selected or cultivated cannabis plants with high THC content, which they then burned using stones heated in a fire. Cloak...