A coalition of Democratic senators are imploring colleagues to derail any attempt to ban all hemp products containing THC, asserting that it would deal a “fatal blow” to the industry that emerged during President Donald Trump’s first term. While agriculture spending legislation that advanced in the Senate was stripped of provisions championed by Sen. Mitch…
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[PRESS RELEASE] – CHICAGO, Sept. 16, 2025 – Verano Holdings Corp., a leading multistate cannabis company, announced the opening of MÜV Crystal River on Sept. 19, elevating the company’s Florida retail footprint to 82 MÜV locations and 158 dispensaries nationwide. Located at 941 NE US Hwy 19, MÜV Crystal River will be open from 9…
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JayWood is in motion. The Montreal-based artist, born Jeremy Haywood-Smith, has released Leo Negro on Captured Tracks, a record already chosen as Bandcamp’s “Album of the Day.” It’s an album about identity, reinvention, and controlled chaos, threaded with sounds that bend genres and voices that bend expectations. But his story is not only about music.…
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Minnesota’s first adult-use marijuana sales from non-tribal retailers have officially launched. Two years after Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed legalization into law, the state’s market is now up and running, with the cannabis company Vireo Growth announcing the first sales at its Green Goods dispensaries on Tuesday. While certain tribal governments across the state have…
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Several Minnesota cannabis retailers will commence adult-use sales Sept. 16 and 17, marking 840 days since Gov. Tim Walz signed legislation to legalize a commercial marketplace for those 21 years and older.This marks the fourth-longest rollout of an adult-use cannabis program in the U.S.: Vermont took 1,741 days between legalization and launching a commercial retail…
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KY medical marijuana available soon; TX Supreme Court dodges cannabis case; NY psychedelics hearing; Federal hemp product ban op-ed Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Hold on, just…
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Michigan Senate Democrats are reportedly moving toward implementing a major tax hike on marijuana that was previously proposed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D). While no legislation to effectuate the policy change has been filed yet, the plan is to impose a 32 percent wholesale excise tax on cannabis—which would be in addition to the existing…
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“The outcome of the debates around these provisions will determine the future of hemp-derived products in the United States, and the economic viability of the industry.” By Lauren Estevez and Joanne Caceres, Dentons US Cannabis Group As Congress returns from recess this month, the hemp industry is closely monitoring provisions that could fundamentally reshape the…
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High Times is back in your ears.Inside the ConversationWhy You Should Listen Episode one of the new High Times With Josh Kesselman Podcast is here. RAW Rolling Papers founder and High Times publisher Josh Kesselman sits down with Jacob Karp, the mind behind Arizona’s first licensed solventless company, The Inventing Room. What follows is a…
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Kentucky’s top medical marijuana regulator said he expects that dispensary shelves will be stocked with products ready for sale to patients by next month. Two of the state’s 16 medical cannabis cultivators are now operational, according to Cannon Armstrong, executive director of Kentucky’s Office of Medical Cannabis (OMC). “If everything goes according to plan for…
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