Culture & Society
Cannabis in global culture, lifestyle, music, art, and its impact on social movements
Vapes are newer. Teen cannabis use isn’t. The Wall Street Journal frames a familiar school problem like legalization invented it, even as the data says youth use has declined. The Wall Street Journal has a new teen-cannabis panic on offer: vape clouds in school bathrooms, sneaky hits during class and administrators playing cat-and-mouse with students…
Teens Didn’t Just Discover Weed Read More »
The Maryland Senate has passed a bill to protect firefighters and rescue workers from being penalized for using medical marijuana while off duty. About a week after advancing through committee, the legislation from Sen. Carl Jackson (D) advanced on the floor in 33-11 vote on Friday. The Senate last year passed an earlier version that…
Maryland Senate Passes Bill To Let Firefighters And Rescue Workers Read More »
Virginia lawmakers have sent the governor legislation to provide a pathway to resentencing for people with prior marijuana convictions. The Senate on Friday voted 21-19 to approve the House of Delegates’s changes to SB 62, sponsored by Senate President Pro Tem Louise Lucas (D). A companion House measure, HB 26 from Rozia A. Henson, Jr.…
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The new 2-gram Ice Packs Blunts are loaded with rosin, diamonds, hash, and a glass tip. More importantly, they come from a brand that usually does something rare in cannabis: it delivers. Rove has launched a new product, but the interesting part is not just what’s inside it. It’s the name on the box. The…
Meet The Blunt for People Who Think Most Blunts Are Read More »
Co-authored by Paulo Thiessen “Let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm.” —Grateful Dead Brazil entered 2026 not with a celebration, but with a reckoning. In the final week of January, the country approved a new regulatory framework for medicinal cannabis, and in doing so crossed a line it had spent decades carefully circling.…
Brazil’s Cannabis Crossroads: New Rules, Old Truths, and the Road Read More »
Colorado House lawmakers have approved a Senate-passed bill to allow terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana in healthcare facilities such as hospitals—though advocates have warned that recent amendments to the measure undermine its original intent. Weeks after advancing through the Senate, with amendments, the legislation from Sen. Kyle Mullica (D) cleared the House Health…
Colorado Lawmakers Approve Bill To Allow Medical Marijuana Use In Read More »
From the Bronx to Brown Budda. “I grew up in the Bronx. My mother’s a type two diabetic.” Marquis Hayes’s entry into cannabis was personal. He recalls waking up to medical emergencies at home–moments that forced responsibility early. “I would usually wake up to a mom that had a sugar coma, and I would have…
How a Bronx Chef Built the First Licensed Dispensary in Read More »
While U.S. legacy outlets recycle moral panic, South America’s business establishment is already treating cannabis like a real market, and demanding rules that actually work. In the United States, cannabis is stuck in a weird loop. No real federal program that matches reality. Fifty different rulebooks pretending they’re a country. A hemp market that keeps…
The New York Times Calls It a ‘Marijuana Problem Read More »
VA marijuana sales & resentencing votes; FL legalization poll & court battle; WA & VA medical cannabis in hospitals; HI psychedelics; MI revenue 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…
Texas voters approve cannabis legalization ballot measure (Newsletter: March 5, Read More »
The Trump administration is issuing a reminder to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) substance abuse professionals (SAPs) about federal drug testing policies—including a directive to disregard attempts to justify positive tests for THC due to a worker’s use of medical marijuana or hemp oil. In a notice published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, DOT…
Use Of Medical Marijuana Or Hemp Doesn’t Excuse Drug Testing Read More »
