Medicial Marijuana
Op-Ed: In The Future, We’ll Wonder How We Ever Practiced Medicine Without Cannabis
Cannabis is everywhere these days. In state-legal towns, you’ll see and smell pot almost everywhere. But that wasn’t the case just over a decade ago. The fight to legalize cannabis has been a long, uphill struggle that hasn’t stopped. Of course, we’ve made significant progress in the United States, where a majority of states have […]
Why Cannabis Businesses Are Turning to Captive Insurance for Better Coverage
It starts with a routine test result. A mid-size cannabis brand discovers that a batch of infused edibles has failed a pesticide screening. Within 48 hours, the company issues a voluntary recall, pulls product from dozens of dispensary shelves, and begins fielding calls from anxious retail partners. The financial damage — replacement inventory, logistics, regulatory […]
Operating in the Missouri Market with Curio Wellness
Missouri has quietly built one of the country’s more successful adult-use cannabis markets since launching recreational sales in 2023. Since legalization, the state has quickly grown into one of the largest cannabis markets in the Midwest, generating strong sales and supporting an expanding network of cultivators, processors, and dispensaries. Unlike many states that see medical […]
Gen Z Should Grow Their Own Weed – Gen Z Chose the Vape Cart. Here’s Why That Matters
Grow Your Own Damn Weed Gen Z Chose the Vape Cart. Here’s Why That Matters — and What We All Lost When Cannabis Became a Commodity. The data landed last week and the industry is treating it like a business story. Vape pens just overtook flower as the top-selling cannabis product in California — the […]
Your Weed, Your Gun, Your Rights – What US v. Hemani Means for Cannabis Users — and What It Still Doesn’t Settle
The case starts simply enough: a Texas man, a legally purchased handgun, some weed, and FBI agents who showed up looking for something else entirely. What it became is one of the most consequential cannabis-related cases the Supreme Court has ever heard — sitting at the crossroads of the Second Amendment, federal drug law, and […]
America Doesn’t Have a Marijuana Problem, It has a Hypocrisy Problem, and the New York Times Just Proved It
By Reginald Reefer | March 2026 On February 9th, 2026, the New York Times editorial board published a piece titled “It’s Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem.” I read it. I read it again. I sat with my coffee and I thought: after fifty years of calling cannabis a dangerous […]
THE WAR ON DRUGS – A Musical History in 12 Acts
Before We Press Play There’s a moment in every empire’s collapse when the enforcers look around at the rubble, dust off their badges, and start scanning the horizon for something — anything — to justify their continued existence. That moment happened in America on December 5, 1933, when Prohibition was repealed and the vast machinery […]
Are Acidic Cannabinoids the Next Frontier for Product Innovation?
While the cannabis industry has made significant strides in incorporating minor cannabinoids into product formulations, a vast number of therapeutic compounds remain largely unexplored. Researchers and cannabis physicians have been experimenting with acidic cannabinoids for several years with promising results, but the broader industry is only now beginning to catch up. As extraction technologies improve […]
The Power of AI and How it Will Transform Cannabis Medicine
Biotechnology, cannabis medicine, and the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are beginning to converge. Hemant Kumar Bid, program director for the Master of Science in Biotechnology and the Medical Cannabis concentration at Morehouse School of Medicine, believes this convergence could dramatically accelerate the development of cannabis-based therapies. With AI, cannabis […]
Texas is Turning from a Red State to a Purple State – and Cannabis Is Part of the Reason Why
DON’T MESS WITH PURPLE Texas Isn’t Turning Blue. It’s Turning Something Nobody Has a Word For Yet — and Cannabis Is Part of Why By Reginald Reefer | March 2026 There’s an old line, allegedly born in the Marine Corps and immortalized on film, that goes something like this: the great state of Texas produces […]