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88 Years of Failure: How Cannabis Prohibition Became America’s Most

Saturday, August 2nd, 2025, marks the 88th anniversary of the Marihuana Tax Act – the beginning of America’s longest-running policy disaster. For nearly nine decades, the federal government has waged war against a plant, spending trillions of dollars, destroying millions of lives, and empowering criminal organizations while failing spectacularly at every single stated objective. After…

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Ohio Retailers Sold More Than $700 Million Worth Of Recreational

“It was really exciting to see people across the state finally get to step into this legal market and purchase safe products.” By Megan Henry, Ohio Capital Journal Ohio legal weed sales topped $702.5 million in the first year. This week marks one year since Ohio began selling recreational marijuana and sales totaled $702,587,948 with 109,706 pounds sold…

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Delaware Governor Touts Nearly $1 Million In Marijuana Sales During

The governor of Delaware is touting the state’s first “successful” weekend of adult-use marijuana sales, with total purchases for medical and recreational cannabis totaling nearly $1 million—and compliance checks demonstrating that the regulated market is operating as intended under the law. From Friday to Sunday, Delaware saw $903,000 worth of marijuana purchased as licensed retailers…

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Opening Legal Marijuana Dispensaries Is Tied To A Huge Drop

Counties that have marijuana dispensaries see an average of 30 percent fewer opioid-related deaths compared to counties without legal cannabis shops open, suggesting a substitution effect away from prescription pills and heroin toward the plant-based treatment, according to a new data analysis. In a Washington Post piece on Wednesday, Harvard University economics student Julien Berman…

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Cannabis Is Being Grown Like It’s Bitcoin: That’s A Problem

Environmental economists tend to think everything boils down to energy. In the case of cannabis, that might actually be true. The THC-infused gummy you popped after work, the boutique pre-roll you grabbed from your local dispensary… They each come with an invisible environmental bill. Like most things these days. Except, maybe, it’s steeper than you’d…

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As Ohio Hits One Year Of Legal Marijuana Sales, It

“Ohio is in an ideal position to play a meaningful role in the normalization and acceptance of cannabis across the country.” By Hirsh Jain, Verdant Strategies As Ohio marks the first year anniversary of adult-use cannabis sales on Wednesday, there are varied perspectives on how the new cannabis market in the nation’s seventh-most populous state…

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40 Under 40: A$AP Ant

Baltimore. It’s a city perhaps known more as the setting for award-winning television shows than for the artists who call it home. Never mind Tupac’s brief stint living in B-more as a young teen. From every corner of the musical spectrum, including the city’s own long-standing, eponymous dance music genre known as “Baltimore Club,” Charm…

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Canopy Growth Launches Cannabis Brand 7ACRES in Australia

[PRESS RELEASE] – SMITHS FALLS, Ontario, Aug. 5, 2025 – Canopy Growth Corp., a world-leading cannabis company dedicated to unleashing the power of cannabis to improve lives, has introduced its Canadian-grown 7ACRES brand in Australia, expanding the company’s medical cannabis offering with two high-THC sativa strains: Ultra Jack and Jack Frost. Ultra Jack, a cross of…

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Panama’s UN Ambassador Talks Weed: ‘We Produced An Allegedly Very

Despite writing for High Times since 2007, I’m not much of a Gonzo Journalist in print. I’m more of one IRL. As I walk through the hallowed halls of the United Nations, I know everyone on campus has an agenda. Mine is cannabis legalization. Naturally, I ask about it in most press briefings, including on…

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Day Trippin’ with Amanda Breeze – Cannabis & Tech Today

Amanda Breeze entered the cannabis industry by way of muddy music festivals, misty mountain joints, and a relentless curiosity for the places where cannabis and culture are one. From trimming weed in California’s Emerald Triangle to touring with a folk-punk band, Breeze has spent her adult life chasing what she calls “new adventures and good…

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