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Election nights for the cannabis industry used to be characterized by one singular metric: adding new states to the adult-use legalization map. While the 2026...
Turning Up the THC Doesn’t Always Turn Up the Mood As cannabis consumers, we’ve always thought that a higher THC percentage on a strain meant...
Cannabis Is Not the Hero or the Villain. It Is a Variable. Most cannabis coverage picks a team. On one side, a plant that cures...
Why Do Older Generations Support Legalization More Than We Expected? For a long time, the story about marijuana reform sounded something like: young people are...
Seventeen Million Years in the Making Every so often I like to remind myself that the plant I write about was not designed by a...
Picture the scene. It’s 8:47 p.m. The toddler has finally surrendered after a negotiation that would have exhausted a UN envoy. The kitchen looks like...
Legal Weed Could Be the Reason Your Coworkers Stopped Calling in Sick Now this is a workplace plot twist that we didn’t see coming! For...
The THC Number Is Lying to You (Sort Of) I have watched a grown man stand at a dispensary counter, squinting at two jars of...
Most Americans Don’t Think Weed Is That Bad for You, and the Numbers Might Surprise You For most of the last century, cannabis has been...
Croptober Tricks & Treats: Raising Monster Buds Five under-appreciated techniques, one graveyard of myths, and honest reality checks on each It’s mid-October, which means two...
Holy Smoke: Can You Start a Religion, and Should You? Religious exemptions, courtroom cautionary tales, and a frank audit of a joke I’m no longer...
Booze, Meet Your New Landlord Here’s a thought experiment guaranteed to make a package-store owner choke on his own product. Take every rule we’ve bolted...
If These 5 People Said They Smoked Weed, the Country Would Legalize It The American cannabis industry is currently trapped in a bizarre purgatory. Despite...
It smells like weed everhwere. We should ban it. Wait, you think weed and cannabis smells will go away if you make it illegal or...
According to the Playbook: Why Congress Is the Only Override Button On Friday, October 9, the Justice Department and the people suing to block marijuana...
Pot for Prisoners: A Crazy Idea With Sane Numbers Derek Jason LeCompte has been locked up in New Jersey for 27 years. In a recent...
The War on Drugs, on Steroids: What Happens When We Ban a $28 Billion Industry On December 11th, a very large chunk of the American...
The Silent Killer of Your Stash: Why THC Disappears From Your Weed While You Sleep (And what you can do about it) If you’ve ever...
Does medical cannabis help with Crohn’s disease? Cannabis may help patients with Crohn’s disease manage several symptoms, including abdominal pain, cramping, appetite problems, and sleep...
Prohibitionists Aren’t Going to Like This One For fifty years the argument against legal cannabis has had one load-bearing wall: “What about the children?” Every...
The GAO Just Confirmed Nobody Wrote the Rulebook Last month the Government Accountability Office published a 31-page report with a title so dull it...
The Ten Strains America Keeps Picking: A List of Lists Every cannabis publication has a “best strains” list, and every list is somebody’s opinion. So...
Cookies genetics have become some of the most influential in modern cannabis breeding, producing countless crosses that combine high THC potential, heavy resin production and...
Your Brain Is Running Low on Its Own Weed, and That’s a Problem A study highlighted by Futurism last week led with a provocative headline:...
Psychology Today’s Cannabis Hit Piece Isn’t Rigorous, It’s Recycled Reefer Madness Samantha Stein, Psy.D., a psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, published a piece...
Strong Weed Is No Reason for Prohibition There’s a new study out of JAMA Psychiatry that’s got prohibitionists reaching for their old talking points again,...
The CDC’s ‘1 Percent’ Cannabis Overdose Stat: What the Data Actually Shows Mid Hudson News ran a piece last week headlined “CDC study links marijuana...
What the West Got Wrong About Drugs Twenty-five years ago, Portugal did something that should have gotten its health minister laughed out of every G7...
Psychedelics Should Be Protected for the Sake of Humanity There’s a specific moment I want you to sit with. A Wall Street analyst is modeling...
Twenty-One Million Arrests Later: The Plant Was Never the Problem the Law Said It Was I like round numbers about as much as I like...
Ganja Theories: The AI Apocalypse, or Just Another Psyop On September 9, a 27-year-old named Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic and told the internet why on...
Not Your Average Retirement Plan A SWAT team rolled up on a trailer in Allapattah last week expecting the kind of scene that makes the...
How Many Had to Die First? Missouri just announced it’s opening an unlimited number of cannabis research licenses in the state. The Missouri Division of...
Let’s play a game. I’m going to list a few predictions made by prohibitionists over the past decade, and you tell me which ones came...
Hello Farms, a Michigan marijuana grower, signed a supply contract with GR Vending and CURA MI. GR Vending breached it. Hello Farms sued, a jury...
A “Psychedelic State” Produced by Cannabis Isn’t as Fun as It Sounds A new study out of Johns Hopkins just confirmed something a lot of...
Aryna Sabalenka, the two-time defending U.S. Open champion and the best women’s tennis player on the planet, had to stop mid-service game at Louis Armstrong...
So you grew the plant. Maybe it was in a greenhouse, maybe a closet, maybe a spare bedroom you told your mother-in-law is now a...
Some CBD topicals announce themselves the second they touch the skin. Menthol produces an immediate chill. Capsaicin and camphor can add warmth. Other formulas skip...
What Does The Latest Scientific Research Tell Us About How A Psychedelic Trip Affects The Brain For The First Time? Psychedelics were long treated as...
The Wall Street Journal’s Future View recently asked college students whether marijuana should be legal. Several of them wrote thoughtful pieces. A few of them...
On May 14, 2026, the U.S. Army published an article titled ‘Breaking Down Cannabinoids: How They Compromise Readiness.’ The piece, written by two staffers from...