Medicial Marijuana
Employers Are Finally Dropping the Pee Test, and It’s About Time for Cannabis Users
There’s a specific kind of American ritual that’s always struck me as bizarre when you actually think about it: showing up for a job interview, getting the offer, and then being handed a plastic cup and directed to a bathroom so a stranger can verify what you did with your own body on your own […]
Where Weed Is Legal in 2026: The 50-State Fact Sheet
Every year I tell myself this list won’t need updating much. Every year I’m wrong. Georgia just became the 41st state with a comprehensive medical program, Virginia finally unveiled a retail framework for a recreational market that’s technically been legal for five years, and the federal government spent the year deciding whether to reschedule the […]
Your Second Amendment Rights Are Now Safer Than Your Weed
Nine to zero. That’s the score from the Supreme Court’s June 18th ruling in United States v. Hemani, and for once, every justice in that building agreed on something involving cannabis. The Court ruled that the federal government cannot restrict gun ownership based solely on the fact that someone uses marijuana, finding that certain prosecutions […]
The Weed Generation Had Kids, Capitol Hill Didn’t Notice.
Somewhere in America right now, a parent is putting a toddler to bed, closing the door, and rolling a joint. Not a headline. Not a scandal. Just a Tuesday. And the politicians writing the laws that govern that parent’s life are, on average, old enough to be that toddler’s grandparent. That’s not a jab. It’s […]
Study Finds Colder BHO Extraction Produces Cleaner Cannabis Concentrates
New research from Abstrax suggests that extraction temperature may be one of the most important process controls for producing cleaner hydrocarbon cannabis extracts. The peer-reviewed study found that colder butane extraction significantly reduced the levels of wax-derived hydrocarbons in the final concentrate while preserving cannabinoids and terpenes. The researchers also identified the long-chain n-alkanes that […]
The Brain Doesn’t Age the Way We Were Told — At Least Not If You Smoke Weed
For the better part of a century, the story has been simple: cannabis fries your brain. Doesn’t matter when you started, doesn’t matter how much — smoke it long enough and something in there is shrinking. That’s the narrative that’s been baked into policy, into PSAs, into the collective gut feeling of anyone over fifty […]
How CPG Standardization Can Help Cannabis Edibles Scale
Imagine buying a standard over-the-counter pain reliever in Miami, and then buying the same brand in Denver, only to find the second bottle is twice as potent because of the altitude where it was manufactured. In any mainstream industry, this could trigger an immediate federal recall. In the cannabis industry, it is a daily operational […]
Cannabis Gummies Move Into the Multivitamin Aisle
As cannabis brands look for new ways to reach consumers, some are developing products that look less like recreational edibles and more like daily wellness supplements. The latest example comes from MariMed Inc.’s Betty’s Eddies™, which has introduced Betty’s Bite-A-Mins, a daily wellness chew that combines cannabinoids with a multivitamin-inspired formula. The tropical smoothie-flavored chews […]
An Open Letter to the Prohibitionists, From an Old School Stoner
To whoever is still out there drafting the next crackdown, still lobbying to walk back forty years of hard-won ground, still convinced that if you just tighten the screws one more turn the plant will disappear: I want to talk to you directly, one adult to another, without the theater. I’m an old school stoner. […]
The Rescheduling Circus- Notes from the Cannabis Rescheduling Hearing You Might Have Missed
Let’s start with the headline nobody in Washington wants to print: marijuana is still illegal. Not “illegal-ish.” Not “illegal with an asterisk.” Federally, under the Controlled Substances Act, cannabis remains a Schedule I narcotic, officially grouped with heroin and LSD, officially declared to have no accepted medical use. That fact hasn’t moved an inch this […]