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Cannabis in global culture, lifestyle, music, art, and its impact on social movements
Welcome to the latest edition of “Last week in Weed,” catching you up on the latest breaking news and industry developments in the world of cannabis. Here’s what you may have missed over the last week: Minnesota Launches Adult-Use Market Minnesota dispensaries began adult-use sales this week, two years after voters approved legalization. The rollout…
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Hawaii health officials are affirming their support for federal marijuana rescheduling—a policy change that the Trump administration is actively considering. At the same time, a state lawmaker who sponsored a cannabis legalization bill in the most recent session says he’s actively gathering input on how to revise the legislation in the hopes it can pass…
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Cannabis is a plant that typically thrives in warm and sunny conditions. If you live somewhere cannabis can thrive year-round outdoors, count yourself as very fortunate! For the rest of us, high-quality cannabis comes with a price tag that’s relative to the cost of production, whether growing your own at home or supporting any number…
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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 – Cresco Labs Inc. announced the grand opening of Sunnyside in Proctorville, Ohio. It is the company’s sixth dispensary in Ohio and 71st nationwide.“We’re thrilled to bring the Sunnyside experience to Proctorville, the first of three new dispensaries we’re opening in Ohio over the next several months,” Cresco…
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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.…
Weed, Shrooms And Black Confidence: JayWood’s ‘Leo Negro’ Explained Read More »
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…
Minnesota’s Recreational Marijuana Market Launches, With First Sales At Non-Tribal Read More »
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…
Minnesota Dispensaries Launch Adult-Use Sales Under State Program Read More »
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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