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This Cannabis Concentrate Is More Expensive Than Cocaine

The Price Paradox in Spain’s Cannabis Clubs In the Spanish underground cannabis scene, a curious economic phenomenon has emerged. A single gram of high-end cannabis concentrate can cost more than a gram of cocaine. It’s known as BHO, or butane hash oil. Long known in the US, BHO has been spreading in the Iberian Peninsula.…

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CBN for Sleep: Rethinking the Nighttime Cannabis Standard

More people are turning to cannabis for sleep than ever before, and it’s not hard to understand why. Between demanding work schedules, constant connectivity, and ongoing social, political, and economic stress, quality sleep has become increasingly elusive. Add in factors like chronic pain, menopause, or aging, and sleep deprivation starts to look less like a…

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Cannabis Was Built by Breeders

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…

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Virginia cannabis sales legalization bills advance (Newsletter: January 26, 2026)

New hemp regulation bill in Congress; MA anti-marijuana campaign challenge fails; Bipartisan lawmakers talk psychedelics; SD cannabis in hospitals 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… Your good deed…

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Terpenes, Unlocked: The Aromatic Soul of Cannabis

As the vast scientific possibilities of cannabis rapidly become more researched, so too does the studying and research behind the fascinating components that are terpenes. These botanical compounds are the building blocks that give cannabis buds their characteristics—everything from the aromas of the bud to the physical appearance to the various feelings and sensations that…

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Inside the “Amazon of THC”: Edibles

With the nationwide launch of Edibles.com last spring, Edible Brands, the company behind Edible Arrangements, is entering bold new territory: THC. Yes, that Edible Arrangements — the name behind the flower-shaped pineapples and chocolate-covered strawberries gracing teachers’ desks and mother-in-laws’ kitchen islands since 1999. The idea of transitioning to THC had been percolating for a…

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Legal Weed Didn’t Fix South Africa’s Cannabis Problem

High Times reporter John Veit traces South Africa’s turbulent cannabis landscape with activists  Myrtle Clarke and Trenton Birch, highlighting the human cost of contradictory laws, police chaos, and an export-first legalization model that sidelines legacy growers. Blending personal tragedy with policy analysis, it shows how private clubs, medicalization, and ingenuity persist in a legal gray…

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Federal cannabis legalization commission proposed under Senate bill (Newsletter: December

Inside Trump’s marijuana meeting; State AGs tell SCOTUS: Keep cannabis user gun ban; Fed study: Teen marijuana use “stable”; Cannabis & holidays 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……

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Are You Smoking Gas… or Gas Gas? Inside the Hydrocarbons

BHO started as a hydrocarbon experiment, often using raw butane and DIY rigs that carried risks. Even with today’s refined, regulated extraction systems, solventless options like rosin and hash remain the purest way to consume cannabis without chemical solvents or complicated gear. Before Colorado had dispensaries, regulations, compliance trackers, or certificate-of-analysis stickers, it already had…

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The Last Days of the Hemp Era

How a Legal Loophole Rewired America’s Cannabis Industry and Why Its Collapse Will Change Cannabis Forever For six years, the American hemp industry breathed life into people who had spent years waiting for true relief, and it carried a sense of possibility that felt almost impossible, sparking policy debates and cultural clashes along the way.…

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