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Cannabis Doesn’t Work: New Study by The Lancet Goes Live – Let’s Talk About Why It’s Garbage
The Lancet Just Published a “Cannabis Doesn’t Work” Study — Let’s Talk About Why That’s Garbage A new meta-analysis dropped in The Lancet Psychiatry this month, and the NY Post ran it like a sports score: “Weed Rarely Justified to Treat Anxiety, Depression.” Headlines got picked up, amplified, shared. The narrative machine did its thing. […]
Weed and the Upcoming Military Draft – The Ghost of Nixon Rises from the Grave
Weed, War, and the Ghost of Nixon: A Pattern That Keeps Repeating There’s a line you can draw from Vietnam to the War on Drugs, and from the War on Drugs to where we sit today — cannabis still federally illegal, wars nobody asked for burning through billions, and a president who rhymes with the […]
Bipartisan Cannabis Bill to Provide Access to Lending Services, Investments, and Grants for State-Legal American Businesses
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D-LA) and Congressman Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) have introduced the bipartisan Capital Lending and Investment for Marijuana Businesses (CLIMB) Act. This legislation will allow state-legal American cannabis companies, including small, minority, and veteran-owned businesses, the ability to access critical lending and investment opportunities currently available to other domestic and regulated […]
Chronic Pain Starts In Your Fascia – And Cannabis Might Be The Missing Link To Relief
Most people have the misconception that chronic pain is an issue rooted in our joints, muscles, or overall inflammation. While we’re right about inflammation, we’re looking at the wrong place: the root of the problem actually lies in the fascia, not isolated in the joints or muscles. We then considered treatment options that only addressed […]
What MJ Unpacked Reveals About Cannabis in 2026
From cultivation to retail, businesses are digging deep to tighten operations and increase margins as the only way to endure another grueling year in cannabis without federal support. A common sales pitch these days centers on cost-saving systems and operational efficiency. The industry has shifted from “how fast can we grow?” to “how do we […]
The Third Exit Path for Cannabis Founders
For many cannabis founders, the exit problem is not finding the right buyer. It is that there are barely any buyers at all. The field is narrow, capital is tight, and the strategic buyers that do exist are rarely showing up with clean cash offers. More often, founders are being asked to accept low valuations, […]
Who Killed the Free Press? – The Ellison Empire, the Cannabis Re-Demonization Campaign
Who Killed the Free Press? The Ellison Empire, the Cannabis Re-Demonization Campaign, and the Ghost of a Vietnam You Never Voted For The New York Times flipped on cannabis last month. We covered that. Filed it, sourced it, called it what it was — institutional cowardice dressed as public health journalism. Then this week, the […]
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 […]