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Federal Health Official Says Teens Are Finding It Harder To

Youth marijuana use is stable amid the state legalization movement, despite prohibitionist claims to the contrary. Beyond that, more students are actually saying it’s harder to access cannabis and that they disapprove of occasional use. During a webinar on Wednesday, federal officials discussed the results of the latest Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey—which is supported…

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Tyson and Ric Flair Say Former Partners Ripped Them Off

A federal court filing claims former partners profited off their names through disputed cannabis licensing deals. Mike Tyson and Ric Flair are accusing former business partners of defrauding them in a high-stakes cannabis branding venture, according to allegations laid out in a federal lawsuit filed last month in Illinois. The 76-page complaint, submitted Dec. 19…

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Libertarians and the Long Road to Cannabis Legalization

For decades, both Democrats and Republicans have skirted around marijuana reform, but only one party has stood firmly for full legalization since day one: the Libertarian Party. Advocacy Through the DecadesThe Libertarian Party and the Future of Cannabis Freedom  Founded in 1971, the Libertarian Party emerged in direct contrast to President Nixon’s newly declared War on…

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Legal Weed Didn’t Fix South Africa’s Cannabis Problem

High Times reporter John Veit traces South Africa’s turbulent cannabis landscape with activists  Myrtle Clarke and Trenton Birch, highlighting the human cost of contradictory laws, police chaos, and an export-first legalization model that sidelines legacy growers. Blending personal tragedy with policy analysis, it shows how private clubs, medicalization, and ingenuity persist in a legal gray…

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Germany’s Medical Cannabis ‘Problem’ Is That It Worked

By December 2025, medical cannabis prescriptions in Germany had increased by more than 3,300% compared with March 2024, the final month before cannabis was removed from the country’s narcotics law and reclassified as a non-narcotic medication. The shift simplified prescribing, opened the door wider for telemedical care and helped normalize cannabis as a regulated treatment.…

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New Jersey Legislature Passes Bill To Create Psilocybin Therapy Pilot

New Jersey lawmakers have passed a bill to create a psilocybin therapy pilot program and allocate $6 million in funding to support the effort. Following its advancement through several House and Senate committees, both full chambers of the legislature approved the psychedelic measure on Monday, sending it to Gov. Phil Murphy (D). “Studies conducted by…

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Legal Marijuana Access Faces An Existential Threat In 2026, And

“These initiatives represent the first-ever large-scale coordinated attack on adult-use markets… This is not a drill. It is the moment to come together to defeat the prohibitionists.” By Adam Smith, Marijuana Policy Project 2025 felt like a year of waiting in cannabis, but 2026 may be something else entirely. Get ready for a major pushback…

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37% of U.S. Hip-Hop and Rap Videos Show Weed, Study

In case anyone still doubted that hip-hop is one of cannabis’ most powerful cultural platforms, a new academic study has finally put hard numbers behind what the culture has been saying for decades. According to research published in the journal Substance Use & Misuse, more than 37% of hip-hop and rap music videos produced in…

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Never Having to Buy Weed, Again : The Self-Sufficient Stoner’s

The Self-Sufficient Stoner’s Guide: Growing Your Year-Round Supply Let’s talk about self-sufficiency. Not in the libertarian “off-grid compound” sense (though if that’s your thing, cool), but in the practical “I’d like to stop spending hundreds of dollars a month at dispensaries and grow my own goddamn medicine” sense. With hemp bans looming, state repeals being…

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3 In 5 Indiana Residents Support Marijuana Legalization, New Poll

As Indiana lawmakers again look to reform state marijuana policy in the 2026 session, a new poll finds that nearly three in five residents back legalizing cannabis for medical and recreational use. The annual Hosier Survey from the Bowen Center at Ball State University (BSU) asked 600 Indianans about a variety of policy issues, from…

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