A coalition of gun rights advocacy groups is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a lower court ruling that deemed the federal ban on firearm ownership by people who use marijuana to be unconstitutional. In an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court on Thursday, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), California Rifle and Pistol…
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Remember when they told you that smoking a joint killed a cop in Colombia? That was the propaganda line two decades ago—your personal cannabis consumption was directly funding cartel violence. If you bought weed, you were complicit in murder, corruption, and destabilization. It was bullshit then, and it’s bullshit now. But let’s accept their logic…
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On February 12, HERbal Woodstock will host a free public screening of Cannabis + Creativity at the historic Bearsville Theater, bringing together cannabis culture, artistic expression and local community under one roof. Directed and produced by Elana Frankel, the award-winning documentary explores how cannabis intersects with creative practice across disciplines. The film follows six artists,…
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The HEMP Act: Saving an Industry or Slapping a Band-Aid on a Bullet Wound? Well folks, just when you thought the hemp-derived THC saga couldn’t get any messier, Congress decided to throw another curveball into the mix. On January 23, 2026, Representatives Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and Marc Veasey (D-TX) introduced the Hemp Enforcement, Modernization, and…
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The federal ban on gun ownership by marijuana consumers is nonsensical and unconstitutional—and it’s made all the more confounding by the fact that President Donald Trump recently directed the completion of federal cannabis rescheduling process, ACLU attorneys for a man at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court case say. In a brief submitted to…
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Massachusetts officials have rejected a challenge to a ballot initiative that seeks to significantly roll back the state’s marijuana legalization law by repealing regulated sales. Weeks after cannabis activists filed a complaint with the State Ballot Law Commission under the Secretary of State’s office—alleging that petitioners with the anti-cannabis campaign used misleading tactics to convince…
Nearly half of Massachusetts voters who signed a petition to put a marijuana legalization rollback initiative on the ballot say they were misled by the anti-cannabis campaign’s signature collectors, according to a new poll. The survey involved more than 2,300 residents who signed the petition for the measure backed by the Coalition for a Healthy…
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On Joe Rogan, a Republican senator described how alcohol interests and segments of the state-legal cannabis industry aligned to push back against hemp-derived THC. For years, the crackdown on hemp-derived THC products has been framed as a matter of consumer safety. Products too strong. Rules too loose. Markets moving faster than regulators. Also read: America…
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If you only paid attention to conservative politicians, lobbying groups, and official party platforms, you’d think cannabis legalization was a non-starter among conservatives. You’d think the entire right wing was united in opposition, clutching their pearls about moral decay and societal collapse. But here’s the thing about official narratives: they’re often bought and paid for.…
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Martin Luther King Jr. might have turned 96 years old this month if he had not been felled by an assassin’s bullet on April 4, 1968. It is, of course, impossible to know what the United States would look like today if he had lived — or what he would think about the political dilemmas…
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