Legalization Was Supposed to Be Bad for Kids. It Turned Out to Be the Opposite
Thirty years into the transition to regulated cannabis markets, teen use and ease of access are at or near the lowest levels ever recorded. It s prohibition — n...
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He Spent 50 Years Fighting for Cannabis Freedom. Now He’s in an Idaho Prison Being Held for Marijuana Addiction Treatment
Dana Beal helped build the cannabis legalization movement — organizing smoke-ins, founding the Global Marijuana March, bringing ibogaine to Ukrainian soldiers o...
High Times Publisher Josh Kesselman Just Made the Forbes Cannabis List. It Started With a Magazine Smuggled Under His Jacket at 16.
Josh Kesselman bought his first copy of High Times at 16, smuggled it under his jacket out of a New York City shop, and read it twice cover to cover. Federal ag...
This 4/20, Remember The Cannabis Prisoners Legalization Left Behind
Stephanie Shepard writes that 4/20 should not only celebrate cannabis culture, but also confront the people still serving decades and life sentences for the sam...
Kratom Crackdown Signals New Drug Policy Shift
As 7-OH faces scrutiny, kratom bans spread—raising questions about whether drug policy reform in the U.S. is moving forward or quietly reversing. p The post Kra...
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...
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...
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