“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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“I just don’t understand why they thought that prohibition would be the right answer.” By Isiah Holmes, Wisconsin Examiner When Jacob Diener first heard that the status of hemp could be reviewed, he wasn’t too concerned. With his company, A Good Plug, the 32-year-old expected to continue producing small batch hemp products like gummies, brownies…
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Medical cannabis prescribing in Australia operates through competing business models. Some clinics charge consultation fees for each appointment. Others eliminate these fees entirely through subscription-based delivery systems. Reddit discussions across r/MedicalCannabisOz, r/MedicalCannabisAus, r/MMJ, and regional forums reveal how patients evaluate these different approaches. The Zero-Consultation-Fee Structure Dispensed removes ongoing consultation charges from the patient cost…
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A GOP senator says he’ll be filing a bill next week to protect the hemp industry from an impending federal ban on most cannabinoid products. He’s also calling out alcohol and marijuana interests for allegedly “join[ing] forces” to lobby in favor of the prohibitionist policy change, which will restrict access to a plant and its…
Rand Paul Slams Alcohol And Marijuana Interests Over Federal Hemp Read More »
A Massachusetts campaign seeking to put an initiative on the 2026 ballot to roll back the state’s voter-approved marijuana legalization law is “confident” they turned in enough signatures this week to qualify—and they’re also pushing back against allegations that some of its petitioners violated election laws by peddling misleading claims about the measure. Wendy Wakeman,…
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MA double marijuana possession limit; TX Ag head opposes fed hemp ban; Conservative group to SCOTUS: Take cannabis case 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… Hold on, just…
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Massachusetts fights to keep legal weed while Florida battles to win it. For years, the story of cannabis reform sounded linear. Voters legalize, regulators build a system, the market matures, everyone moves on. But that story is starting to glitch. In Massachusetts, opponents are trying to yank the plug on a $1.6 billion adult-use market…
Florida Is Fighting to Legalize Adult-Use Cannabis While Massachusetts Moves Read More »
Ohio lawmakers have advanced a bill that would scale back the state’s voter-approved marijuana law—with new amendments to ban the sale of hemp products that fall outside of a newly revised federal definition for the crop, unless they’re sold at marijuana dispensaries. After the House revised the Senate-passed legislation from Sen. Stephen Huffman (R), removing…
Ohio Lawmakers Pass Bill To Scale Back Marijuana Law And Read More »
The head of the Texas Department of Agriculture is calling for a repeal of a recently enacted federal hemp THC product ban the president signed into law last week, cautioning that thousands of businesses across his state are at risk of shutting down if the policy isn’t reversed before it takes effect next year. Texas…
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Calls For Repeal Of Federal Hemp Ban Read More »
Judge slams DEA for psychedelic petition delay; Joe Rogan blasts hemp ban; Study: Cannabis reduces alcohol drinking; TX advances hemp rules 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…
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