Texas Just Made Weed More Dangerous Than It Ever Was Under Full Prohibition — And They’re Calling It Regulation
I want you to sit with a question for a second. If a state passes a law that punishes a hemp gummy more severely than the state used to punish a joint, is that state “regulating” cannabis, or is it doing something worse than prohibition ever did? Because that’s exactly what just happened in Texas, […]
Trump’s Cannabis Trojan Horse: Why Stoners Are Losing Faith
There’s an old rule in politics: you can fool a voting bloc once with a promise, but you can’t keep fooling them once they start doing math. Cannabis consumers just did the math. According to the latest quarterly NuggMD/Marijuana Moment tracking poll, only 48 percent of marijuana consumers now approve or strongly approve of the […]
Cannabis Rescheduling Is a Band-Aid, This Bill Is Actually Trying to Treat the Wound
Senate Democrats just refiled a bill that does the thing rescheduling was never designed to do: end federal cannabis prohibition outright. Cory Booker, Chuck Schumer, and Ron Wyden reintroduced the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act on July 16, and while it will almost certainly die in a Republican-controlled House the same way its last two […]
Top Cannabis Payroll Mistakes Operators Should Avoid
Compared to licensing, compliance, and supply chains, payroll rarely receives the same level of scrutiny from operators because it’s perceived as a back-office function rather than a risk surface. As long as people are getting paid, it’s assumed to be “working,” even when the underlying systems are brittle, inconsistent, or misaligned with how the business […]
The Sharon Stone Withdrawal Story Isn’t About Weed, It’s About Clickbait Wattage
Sharon Stone spent a month feeling like garbage after she quit smoking pot, and now half the internet is treating it like a public service announcement about the plant itself. I’ve been smoking cannabis for over twenty years. I’ve taken long breaks. I know what withdrawal feels like from the inside, not from a press […]
Cannabis Consumption Lounges Are Coming to More Cities: Is ‘Cannabis Cafe Culture’ Actually Good for the Industry?
Long before cannabis dispensaries were the norm, socially consuming weed had designated places of its own. Sometime around the 70s and 80s, Amsterdam’s coffeeshops marked the beginning of the world’s first public consumption lounges, where consumers could visit to buy legal and regulated weed, followed by a few hours of enjoyment in a relaxed atmosphere […]
While America Argues About CBD, Europe Quietly Fixed the Part That Matters
For all the noise around CBD in the United States, from Farm Bill loopholes to state-by-state confusion, the conversation almost never lands on the thing that actually affects the person buying a bottle: can you trust what is in it? Across the Atlantic, that question has been answered better, and not through louder marketing. It […]
The US Weed Bubble: Why Your Dispensary Habit Can Get You Killed Somewhere Else in the World
Americans have gotten comfortable. Forty-plus states have some form of legal cannabis on the books, dispensaries have started to look like Apple Stores, and an entire generation of consumers has grown up assuming weed is basically fine everywhere now. It is not fine everywhere now. It is barely fine in most of the country, and […]
Weed Could Replace Millions of Opioid Prescriptions If We Let It
Opioids have caused one of the deadliest health crises in the history of the United States. These drugs have notoriously caused hundreds of thousands of deaths alone, primarily through overdoses of synthetic opioids including prescription painkillers, fentanyl, and heroin. In 2024 alone, approximately 54,700 deaths were caused by opioids alone, while around 88% of opioid […]
Q&A: Hirsh Jain on Cannabis Rescheduling, Interstate Commerce and the Next Wave of Market Growth
Cannabis federal reform has finally reached a historic moment. Medical cannabis is moving through the rescheduling process after decades under federal prohibition, marking one of the biggest developments in the industry’s history. The final outcome could determine how companies expand, whether cannabis can move across state lines, and which markets become the next major opportunities. […]