For more than a decade, “Adventures with Santa” has appeared in magazines around the world: a fictional series blending holiday magic with cannabis culture, compassion, and plant wisdom. Each year, Santa drops in on real figures from the cannabis community for a little medicine, a little conversation, and a reminder of why this plant matters.…
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In 2025, cannabis is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Everywhere in the sense that you can buy it legally in glittery storefronts, order it for delivery like pizza, see it advertised on billboards, hear politicians brag about the tax revenue, and watch corporate executives talk about “innovation” with the same straight face Big…
The Cannabis Justice Crisis Still Haunting 2025: Parker Coleman’s 60-Year Read More »
President Donald Trump has directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to move quickly on finalizing marijuana’s potential reclassification under federal law, following an executive order signed earlier this month. According to The Marijuana Herald, which cited two sources close to the president, Trump privately instructed Bondi to complete the rescheduling process by the end of January.…
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A top Trump administration health official said last week that his agency will soon launch a novel program to have Medicare cover the costs of CBD for certain patients. But while the administration has not yet released specific details about the initiative’s rollout, one cannabis company that says it’s partnering with the government on the…
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Cannabis didn’t win Trump over with a single argument. It wore him down. For more than a year, executives, advocates, pollsters and old friends circled one of the most famously sober presidents in modern history, pushing a narrow idea again and again: marijuana doesn’t belong in the same federal category as heroin. By the time…
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For years, critics of cannabis reform have leaned on the same warning: legal weed will lead to more teens using marijuana. The data keeps telling a different story. According to newly released, federally funded survey data compiled by researchers at the University of Michigan, teen marijuana use has continued its long-term decline and now sits…
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Ohio activists are launching a campaign to hit the brakes on a bill the governor recently signed to scale back the state’s voter-approved marijuana law and ban the sale of consumable hemp products outside of licensed cannabis dispensaries. Ohioans for Cannabis Choice said on Friday that they’d be collecting signatures for the statewide referendum, which…
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A Department of Defense (DoD)-funded clinical trial will study MDMA-assisted therapy paired with Massed Prolonged Exposure for PTSD in active-duty service members. For decades, MDMA lived far outside the walls of official medicine. Let alone the U.S. military. That wall just moved. The U.S. Department of Defense is funding a $4.9 million clinical trial investigating…
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Florida lawmakers have filed new bills for the 2026 session that would reduce medical cannabis patient registration fees for military veterans and clarify that smoking or vaping marijuana in public places is prohibited. Sen. Keith Truenow’s (R) proposal would make it so that veterans would only need to pay a $15 state fee to receive,…
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The holidays feel like a time of year tailor made for creating wonderful sensory memories. Be it the comforting aroma of freshly baked gingerbread men wafting over the kitchen or the taste of a stiff eggnog, our various end-of-year celebrations and traditions are often packed with plenty of signature flavors and smells. Though cannabis may…
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