“We’d just like, in Indiana, some certainty as to these products so that the people manufacturing and selling them know kind of what our laws are.” By Leslie Bonilla Muñiz, Indiana Capital Chronicle Indiana lawmakers seek to align state law with a recently enacted federal ban on intoxicating and synthetic hemp products—over opposition from the…
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As cannabis beverages gain ground, study after study shows alcohol consumption dropping. You don’t need a conspiracy to explain the panic. You just need the numbers. Alcohol sales are down. Cannabis beverages are up. And suddenly, a lot of people are very concerned about weed making people puke. That timing is hard to ignore. When…
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Since 2012, when Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize recreational cannabis, the trajectory seemed clear: forward. State after state, the dominoes fell. Public support grew. The industry flourished. Medical patients found relief. Tax revenues poured in. The sky didn’t fall. It felt inevitable that cannabis prohibition’s days were numbered. But something changed…
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Skyworld, a New York-based cannabis brand rooted in Indigenous tradition, has announced a partnership with the Last Prisoner Project (LPP), a nonprofit focused on freeing people incarcerated due to the War on Drugs and supporting them as they rebuild their lives. The collaboration, originally announced on January 6, 2026, is positioned as a public-facing campaign…
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Those who consume cannabis-infused beverages are more likely to reduce their alcohol intake, according to data published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. Researchers affiliated with SUNY (State University of New York) Buffalo assessed trends in alcohol consumption among a cohort of individuals age 18 or older who acknowledged having used cannabis products during the…
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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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“These initiatives represent the first-ever large-scale coordinated attack on adult-use markets… This is not a drill. It is the moment to come together to defeat the prohibitionists.” By Adam Smith, Marijuana Policy Project 2025 felt like a year of waiting in cannabis, but 2026 may be something else entirely. Get ready for a major pushback…
Legal Marijuana Access Faces An Existential Threat In 2026, And Read More »
A GOP congressman says President Donald Trump made it “very clear” his administration should move forward with rescheduling marijuana, and so he isn’t concerned about the possibility that the Justice Department will delay or ignore the recent directive to complete the process. Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH), co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, told Marijuana Moment…
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GOP Senator Thom Tillis recently voiced his opposition to Trump’s Schedule III rescheduling order, dusting off that old faithful propaganda chestnut: marijuana is a gateway drug. You know, the theory that smoking a joint inevitably leads to shooting heroin in a back alley while your life crumbles around you. It’s 2025, folks. We have literally…
The Gateway Drug Theory: The Lie That Won’t Die (Because Read More »
Massachusetts reached a marijuana sales milestone in 2025, with $1.65 billion in adult-use sales for the year—bringing the state’s total legal cannabis purchases to over $10 billion since the recreational market launched, officials announced on Thursday. A top regulator also said that the forthcoming addition of social consumption lounges could give the industry a further…
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