Culture & Society
Cannabis in global culture, lifestyle, music, art, and its impact on social movements
From dialed-in flower to standout vapes, edibles, and drinks, this year’s Cannabis Cup results highlight the operators setting the pace for New York quality. Best Sativa Flower: Doobie Labs, White Widow Doobie Labs brought their flower to market in 2024 after a relentless pursuit to perfect their product. And clearly, it’s paying off. For a…
New York Cannabis Cup Winners: The Brands and Products That Read More »
This article originally appeared on the High Adam newsletter. Subscribe here. After the plant’s inclusion in the 234-year-old publication’s planting and gardening guide caused a bit of a buzz last month, editor-in-chief Carol Connare helped put it in perspective. The Old Farmer’s Almanac garnered some serious attention on canna-centric social media last month when it…
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Hawaii senators have taken up a pair of bills to legalize marijuana—with one proposal contingent on federal reform or changes to the state Constitution and the other omitting provisions allowing for commercial sales. Members of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee and Commerce and Consumer Protections Committee took up the measures—SB 2421 and SB…
Hawaii Senators Take Up Marijuana Legalization Bills After Key House Read More »
The percentage of young people consuming cannabis products has decreased dramatically over the better part of the past two decades, according to an analysis of youth survey data published in the journal Addictive Behaviors. Researchers affiliated with the University of Connecticut assessed data from the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey. They analyzed over 254,000 high-school…
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Virginia’s legislature took action on a series of marijuana bills on a key deadline Tuesday—advancing proposals to legalize cannabis sales, provide a pathway to resentencing for prior marijuana convictions and allow medical cannabis access in hospitals for seriously ill patients. On Tuesday’s crossover deadline to move bills from one chamber to the other, the House…
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Maryland lawmakers have approved a bill to extend a psychedelics task force through the end of 2027 to develop updated recommendations on expanding therapeutic access to the novel drugs and potentially creating a regulatory framework for broader legalization. Days after holding an initial hearing on the legislation from Del. Pam Guzzone (D), members of the…
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Massachusetts has reached another marijuana milestone, with officials announcing that the state has surpassed $9 billion in adult-use cannabis purchases since the market launched in 2018. According to the Cannabis Control Commission (CCC), Massachusetts recreational marijuana sales hit the $9 billion mark as of February 4. The update also notes that the state saw $1.65…
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NORML has responded to a New York Times editorial (“It’s Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem,” February 9) which alleged that “American lawmakers should do more to regulate” adult-use marijuana products. Notably however, the Times editors call for a number of regulatory ‘fixes’ that are already widely adopted in legal…
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Oklahoma Republican leadership in both chambers are voicing skepticism over the governor’s suggestion that the state should put a measure on the ballot to roll back its medical marijuana program. After Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) used part of his State of the State address this month to pitch the idea of shutting down the state’s…
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The first-ever White House drug czar says that while he loves President Donald Trump and “almost everything he does,” that affection doesn’t extend to the pending proposal to federally reschedule marijuana, which he described as a “gateway drug” that’s harming youth. William Bennett, who served as education secretary under former President Ronald Reagan before becoming…
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