Rosin, Raids and Risk: Spain’s New Cannabis Frontier
From home labs and deadly butane blasts to solventless rosin, police raids, and a legal gray zone, Spain is entering a more potent and more volatile phase of ca...
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You Went Legal. The Federal Government Rewarded You With a 70% Tax Rate.
Legal cannabis operators paid $2.24 billion in excess federal taxes in 2025 due to 280E. Whitney Economics says the industry is being taxed out of business. Her...
Psychedelic Reform Is Spreading Faster Than Anyone Expected. The Movement Is Trying Not to Blow It.
Psychedelic legislation is advancing in more states simultaneously than ever before in 2026. New Jersey signed a research law. Oregon overhauled its psilocybin ...
‘Cannabis Is a Tool, Not an Escape.’ Two Iraqi-American Brothers Built a $180 Million Brand Around That Idea.
Two first-generation Iraqi-American brothers built Muha Meds from a $15,000 startup into a $180 million cannabis brand — no outside investors, no shortcuts, no ...
Alabama Took Five Years to Open Its First Cannabis Dispensary. It’s Finally Happening.
Alabama's first medical cannabis dispensary opens May 4. The launch comes five years late, after repeated licensing failures, lawsuits and a state audit that fo...
Zurich’s Weed Trial Is Working So Well Switzerland Just Extended It Again
Switzerland has extended Zurich’s legal cannabis pilot through 2028 after strong results showed regulated weed access may reduce illicit sales and improve publi...
How Free Do You Actually Feel as a Cannabis Consumer? NORML Wants to Know
NORML's 2026 Cannabis Freedom Survey asks how free consumers actually feel, not just what the law says. Takes one minute. Results matter. p The post How Free Do...
Argentina’s Cannabis Paradox: Access First, Market Later
Argentina has built a patient-first cannabis framework with real access, but the commercial and regulatory pieces still have not fully aligned into a cohesive m...
Everything You Know About CBD Is Probably Wrong
New interpretations of global drug treaties are reshaping CBD policy, hemp regulation, and medical cannabis access worldwide. p The post Everything You Know Abo...
B-Real and Xzibit on Brick Weed, Backwoods and Why They Still ‘Rap Circles’ Around Younger Rappers
B-Real, Xzibit and Demrick have spent decades around rap and weed. On This Thing of Ours, the Serial Killers trio sound loose, sharp and fully in command. In th...
Snoop Just Brought Death Row Seeds To U.S. Growers
Death Row’s cannabis collaboration with Sensi Seeds is officially coming to the U.S., bringing five strains to American home growers for the first time. The lin...
Cannabis Cup Winner Craig Palmer Took 6 Point From Illicit to Legal in New York
Legacy grower Craig Palmer built Sixpoint Cannabis from decades in the underground to a standout brand in New York’s legal market. p The post Cannabis Cup Winne...
How $10 Million Meant for Florida Taxpayers Ended Up in the Anti-Marijuana War
A $10 million payment tied to a Florida Medicaid settlement moved through the Hope Florida Foundation, into two anti-drug nonprofits, and then into a political ...
Inside the DEA’s Crisis of Legitimacy
A long trail of corruption cases, oversight failures, and drug-war contradictions has left the DEA with a credibility problem, even as it continues to influence...
Big Finance Found A New Way To Go After Cannabis: By Policing Speech
A new book from civil liberties advocate Rainey Reitman digs into “financial censorship,” and one of its sharpest chapters lands right in cannabis, where debank...
50 Years After “Legalize It,” the Fight Isn’t Over
Fifty years after Peter Tosh’s “Legalize It,” his daughter Niambe McIntosh carries the fight forward through advocacy, reform, and personal loss. p The post 50 ...
Trump Fired Pam Bondi. What Changes For Marijuana Rescheduling?
Pam Bondi is out, Todd Blanche is in, and the immediate question for cannabis is whether that changes the fate of marijuana rescheduling. The early answer appea...
The Feds Just Started Reimbursing Hemp CBD And THC Products. Anti-Weed Groups Immediately Sued
A new federal program that took effect April 1 lets certain participating care models furnish up to $500 a year in eligible hemp-derived CBD and low-THC product...
Uruguay Slashes Illicit Cannabis Market to 6.7%—But Faces New Challenges
More than a decade after making history as the first country to legalize adult-use cannabis, Uruguay has entered a new phase: the system works, but it’s no long...
Why Ganja Should Be Re-Legalized in India
Ed Rosenthal traces how international pressure criminalized a plant long woven into Indian life, and why he believes it is time to bring ganja back under regula...
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