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Marijuana Breeders Can Use AI To Design New Strains, Study

Marijuana breeders may be able to design new strains and speed up their growing cycles by utilizing artificial intelligence (AI), a new study suggests. Researchers found that by feeding genetic markers, growth measurements, environmental data and chemical assays into AI models, breeders could simulate thousands of potential crosses and stimulate “speed breeding” through machine learning…

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ExpoCannabis Brasil Draws 42,000 People As Brazil’s Cannabis Movement Accelerates

Who would have imagined that Latin America’s largest cannabis expo would take place in a country whose Congress still treats the subject with deep suspicion? Yet that is what unfolded as ExpoCannabis Brasil wrapped its third edition, the most ambitious so far, revealing a cannabis culture in Brazil that is expanding despite political obstacles. One…

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When the Smoke Cleared: Finding Purpose Through Grief and Grass

Grief has a way of hollowing you out. For many, it’s a darkness we try to numb or outrun. But for a growing number of people—myself included—cannabis isn’t about escape. It’s about connection, healing, and learning to live again. After my father passed, I found myself in a fog where life felt unrecognizable. Nothing made…

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Virginia Marijuana Commission Unveils Plan To Legalize Adult-Use Sales Under

A Virginia legislative commission on marijuana has unveiled a much-anticipated proposal to legalize recreational marijuana sales that it is recommending lawmakers pass during the 2026 session. And with an incoming governor supportive of the cannabis reform, advocates are optimistic that the plan could come fruition. After months of hearings and debate, the legislature’s Joint Commission…

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Inside The Pre-Roll Machine Of The Future: How Apehex And

Apehex, the automated pre-roll system developed by Perfectionist Rolling Equipment in collaboration with RAW founder Josh Kesselman, is quietly changing how joints are manufactured across North America. What looks today like a polished piece of production equipment began as something much simpler: a Saturday morning idea, a production bottleneck and a message that landed in…

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Meet Your Next Favorite Grow: Premium Cannabis Clones on The

At The Cannigma, we love helping people connect more deeply with the plant, and there’s something truly special about growing your own cannabis at home. That’s why we’re excited to offer trusted, high-quality cannabis clones directly through our marketplace. Growing from a clone is like starting your journey with a head start. You skip the…

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Everyone’s Cashing In on Legal Weed—Except America

As cannabis becomes a regulated global commodity—spanning pharma, exports and healthcare—the U.S. risks falling behind. While other regions advance professionalized, regulated markets, federal inaction and investor hesitation threaten America’s role in the industry it once led. Call it what you want—emerging, evolving, exploding—the global cannabis market is no longer a curiosity. In late 2025, the…

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New Federal Hemp Law Signed By Trump Amounts To ‘Ban

“We didn’t ban potatoes just because someone turned them into moonshine. We regulate alcohol. We should do the same with hemp.” By Mike Simpson, Lovewell Farms via Rhode Island Current I co-founded Lovewell Farms, Rhode Island’s only USDA-certified organic hemp farm in 2018. Since 2019, we’ve been growing legal hemp outdoors, using natural ethanol extraction…

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Opinion: Cannabis Is a Nutraceutical, Not a Pharmaceutical — and

For decades, cannabis has been trapped in a political purgatory, classified, vilified, and regulated as if it were a dangerous, single-molecule synthetic drug. But anyone who’s ever looked beyond the government propaganda or actually interacted with the plant knows better: cannabis is not a “drug” in the traditional pharmaceutical sense. Many of us see it…

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Nature’s Nootropics: How Cannabis and Mushrooms Are Helping Dogs Fight

When a 14-year-old rescue named Miss Daisie began standing over her water bowl and forgetting how to drink, Angela Ardolino knew something was wrong. The dog wasn’t sick—she was slipping away. “She’d get up and go to the water bowl and just stand there,” Ardolino recalled. “My partner said, ‘I think she’s got Alzheimer’s.’ He…

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