Cannabis Policy & Legalization
Global cannabis legislation, decriminalization efforts, and legal battles shaping the industry.
“The central question is no longer whether cannabis will become a major American industry, but what kind of industry it will become.” By Damian Fagon, Parabola Center for Law & Policy For more than a decade, U.S. cannabis legalization has been framed as an opportunity for small producers, local brands and craft cultivation. In most…
The Promise Of ‘Craft Cannabis’ Has Not Been Realized—Due To Read More »
For decades, cannabis breeders grew the plant that everyone profits from. They selected, stabilized and preserved genetics under prohibition, often at real personal risk. Then legalization arrived, and much of that work was absorbed into the commercial market with little credit, less consent and almost no compensation. Strains were renamed. Lineage was blurred. Provenance became…
Cannabis Was Built by Breeders Read More »
Remember when they told you that smoking a joint killed a cop in Colombia? That was the propaganda line two decades ago—your personal cannabis consumption was directly funding cartel violence. If you bought weed, you were complicit in murder, corruption, and destabilization. It was bullshit then, and it’s bullshit now. But let’s accept their logic…
Avocados vs Bombs: How Legal Cannabis Markets Beat the Cartels Read More »
On February 12, HERbal Woodstock will host a free public screening of Cannabis + Creativity at the historic Bearsville Theater, bringing together cannabis culture, artistic expression and local community under one roof. Directed and produced by Elana Frankel, the award-winning documentary explores how cannabis intersects with creative practice across disciplines. The film follows six artists,…
Woodstock to Screen Documentary Exploring Cannabis and Creativity Read More »
The Delaware Senate has voted to override the governor’s veto of a bill that would prevent local governments from imposing onerous zoning restrictions that make it more challenging for marijuana businesses to operate in their jurisdictions. This comes months after Gov. Matt Meyer (D) vetoed the legislation from Sen. Trey Paradee (D), who pitched it…
Delaware Senate Votes To Override Governor’s Veto Of Marijuana Bill Read More »
For much of the last decade, Texas has occupied a contradictory place in the U.S. cannabis landscape. It maintains one of the nation’s most restrictive medical cannabis programs and enforces strict marijuana prohibition, yet quietly became a national powerhouse in hemp production after the 2018 Farm Bill. The result is a fragmented system defined by legal gray areas, regulatory…
Texas Cannabis Policy Is at an Inflection Point Read More »
For decades, cannabis has been treated as a public menace while alcohol and tobacco were folded into daily life, policy frameworks and corporate profit models. A newly published scientific analysis out of Canada once again flips that logic on its head. A peer-reviewed study published January 27 in the Journal of Psychopharmacology finds that alcohol…
Cannabis Isn’t the Most Harmful Substance Read More »
The Justice Department says there are currently no updates on the marijuana rescheduling process that President Donald Trump instructed the attorney general to complete “in the most expeditious manner” more than a month ago. As advocates and industry stakeholders await the completion of that process, DOJ deputy director of public affairs Wyn Hornbuckle told Marijuana…
DOJ Has No ‘Comment Or Updates’ on Marijuana Rescheduling—More Than Read More »
As a metaphor for the passage of time, The Simpsons’ episode “Homerpalooza” (season 7, episode 24) portrays Homer in an exercise in nostalgia: while reminiscing about his youth, he assures his father that despite his age, balding head, and growing belly, he’ll keep on rocking forever. Forever. Forever. The innocence and raw truth of that…
This 72-Year-Old Has Been to 24,000 Concerts Read More »
One lawmaker said the state should protect minors without “trampling all over the freedoms” of adults. By Adrian Ashford, South Carolina Daily Gazette Legislation banning or nearly banning hemp products infused with THC, providing an alternative high in a state where marijuana remains illegal, advanced Wednesday to the House floor. House Judiciary Chairman Weston Newton,…
South Carolina Lawmakers Advance Hemp Restriction Bills, Including One To Read More »
