Thailand’s Weed Boom Is Breaking—Here’s Who Survives
Thailand’s cannabis boom is cooling fast. Here’s how dispensaries are surviving saturation, regulation, and a changing tourist market. p The post Thailand’s Wee...
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Inside Scarlet Reserve Room and Jersey’s Legacy Weed Culture
Scarlet Reserve Room owner Wil Rivera on legacy cannabis, New Jersey legalization, and why corporate weed still misses the culture. p The post Inside Scarlet Re...
Ilhan Omar Thinks ‘A Lot Of People’ In Congress Smoke Weed. Then She Flashed A Peace Sign And Left.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, who co-chairs the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, told TMZ that "a lot of people" in Congress smoke cannabis, then flashed a peace sign and walk...
Virginia’s Democratic Governor Promised To Legalize Weed Sales. Then She Vetoed The Bill.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger vetoed the bill that would have launched Virginia's adult-use cannabis market, breaking a campaign promise and pushing legal sales to 20...
He Used to Bust Drug Boats. Now the Feds Are Coming for His Hemp Company.
Before he built one of Texas' largest hemp companies, Lukas Gilkey was boarding drug boats in the Caribbean Sea. What he saw there convinced him the war on drug...
Why Legal Cannabis Doesn’t Belong Next to Gambling and Porn
Legal cannabis may carry risks. But treating it like gambling or AI pornography flattens the debate and ignores the public health, economic and regulatory benef...
TSA Says You Can Now Fly With Medical Marijuana. Good Luck Figuring Out What That Means.
The TSA updated its public-facing Medical Marijuana page on April 27, the day before Schedule III rescheduling took effect, listing cannabis as permitted in car...
New York’s Microbusinesses Could Save Legal Weed From Becoming Corporate Sludge
New York’s vertically integrated microbusinesses are emerging as one of the most important experiments in modern cannabis legalization. p The post New York’s Mi...
The Telltale Spark: Spain Dismantled 1,850 Indoor Cannabis Grows by Tracking Illegal Power Hookups in 2025
Spain has increased penalties for electricity theft linked to indoor cannabis cultivation after Endesa reported a record number of illegal power hookups. In 202...
‘It’s Still Illegal’: Trump’s Drug Czar on Marijuana Reclassification
ONDCP director Sara Carter Bailey told Newsmax that Schedule III only covers medical and research, then pivoted to potency, foreign grows and hemp THC. p The po...
Kodak Black Arrested in Florida on MDMA Trafficking Charge, Pleads Not Guilty
Kodak Black has been arrested in Florida and charged with felony MDMA trafficking in connection with a November 2025 investigation near Orlando, though the rapp...
Target Just Made A Big Bet On Hemp THC Drinks Six Months Before A Federal Ban. Do They Know Something We Don’t?
Target is adding intoxicating hemp THC drinks to 300+ stores across Florida, Texas and Illinois six months before a federal ban could erase the category. p The ...
Brazil Just Quietly Hit 873,000 Medical Cannabis Patients. The Industry Convenes In São Paulo This Month.
Brazil now has more than 873,000 medical cannabis patients, a market approaching $200 million in annual revenue, and a regulatory framework that just opened the...
Cannabis 2016–2026: The Green Rush Fizzled. What Came Next Is More Interesting
Cannabis has gone from underground taboo to a $149 billion global industry in a decade. Here's what changed between 2016 and 2026 — and what the Green Rush got ...
Mexico’s Congress Has Had Four Years to Pass a Cannabis Law. 15,000 People Just Ran Out of Patience.
15,000 people marched down Paseo de la Reforma on May 2nd demanding the cannabis law Mexico's Congress has owed since 2021. A firsthand chronicle of a march tha...
The DEA Just Opened A Door To Federal Cannabis. Nearly 400 Businesses Are Already Racing Through It.
Nearly 400 businesses signed up for the DEA's new Medical Marijuana Dispensary Registration Portal in its first 72 hours. Operators are racing a June 26 deadlin...
The DEA Says HHC Was Always Illegal. The Gas Station Cannabinoid Just Got The Schedule I Code To Prove It.
The DEA gave hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) its own Schedule I drug code on May 4, 2026, formalizing the federal government's position that the synthetic cannabinoid...
Atmosphere, De La Soul And Stephen Marley Walked Into A Reggae Festival. The Genre Lines Didn’t Survive.
The April 2026 Reggae Rise Up Arizona festival in Tempe brought together reggae royalty (Rebelution, Stephen Marley, Steel Pulse) and hip-hop heavyweights (Atmo...
Legal Weed Left the Bong Makers Behind
Jerome Baker Designs founder Jason Harris talks to High Times about Operation Pipe Dreams, the federal paraphernalia law nobody is fighting and why he's relaunc...
Legal Weed, Unequal Justice: Mary Bailey’s Fight to Free Cannabis Prisoners
Mary Bailey co-founded Last Prisoner Project after a social media video stopped her cold. Since then, LPP has provided millions in legal services and helped fre...
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