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The Corporatization of Psychedelics: FDA Fast-Tracking, Patents, and Pharma
Psychedelics Should Be Protected for the Sake of Humanity There’s a specific moment I want you to sit with. A Wall Street analyst is modeling peak annual sales for a pill made of LSD. Not “acid,” not a sacrament, not the compound that a Swiss chemist accidentally absorbed through his fingertips in 1943 and then […]
What Medical Cannabis Packaging Can Learn from Pharma
Medical cannabis companies developing a new product or redesigning packaging for an existing one may want to look beyond today’s cannabis packaging requirements and consider what could be required in the years ahead. Pharmaceutical packaging has spent decades addressing many of the same issues medical cannabis companies face, including child resistance, tamper evidence, and product […]
21 Million Marijuana Arrests: Why Cannabis Prohibition Failed in America
Twenty-One Million Arrests Later: The Plant Was Never the Problem the Law Said It Was I like round numbers about as much as I like being pulled over, so let me start with one that isn’t round: 21,366,700. That’s how many marijuana arrests American police reported between 1990 and 2025, according to FBI-derived figures compiled […]
What Food-Safety Teams Should Ask a Cannabinoid Supplier
The cannabinoid industry has historically focused heavily on manufacturing compliance: GMPs, certificates of analysis, potency testing, contaminant testing, traceability, and state licensing. Those systems are important, and Floraworks has invested significantly in them. But when you begin evaluating an ingredient through established food and dietary supplement frameworks, you realize that manufacturing compliance is really just […]
Can You Reconstruct Your Cannabis Inventory Without the State System?
For years, California’s licensed cannabis operators have tagged plants, scanned packages, reconciled inventory, and paid for the privilege, on the understanding that Sacramento was using the data to identify diversion. On August 4, an Orange County Superior Court judgment confirmed what many operators complained about for years: the system was not flagging irregularities as the […]
AI Apocalypse or Corporate Psyop? The Real Reason Tech Giants Are Hitting the Brakes
Ganja Theories: The AI Apocalypse, or Just Another Psyop On September 9, a 27-year-old named Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic and told the internet why on his way out the door. He’d spent three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, and his parting message was blunt: neither company is acting responsibly, both are […]
Miami SWAT Raid: Why Two Elderly Men Turned to Drug Trafficking for Retirement
Not Your Average Retirement Plan A SWAT team rolled up on a trailer in Allapattah last week expecting the kind of scene that makes the evening news for the right reasons: body armor, zip ties, a stash worth bragging about. What they got was two Cuban grandfathers, one pushing 90, running a corner operation out […]
The Deadly Toll of the Controlled Substances Act on Mental Health Treatments
How Many Had to Die First? Missouri just announced it’s opening an unlimited number of cannabis research licenses in the state. The Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation filed proposed rules allowing any qualified researcher to apply, with no cap on licenses and no restrictions on subject matter. As Rieka Yu, the division’s policy director, put […]
The Sky Didn’t Fall: What a Decade of Legalization Actually Taught Us
Let’s play a game. I’m going to list a few predictions made by prohibitionists over the past decade, and you tell me which ones came true. Legal weed will flood emergency rooms with stoned drivers. Legal weed will spike violent crime. Legal weed will hook a new generation of teenagers. Legal weed will turn state […]
A $31.8 Million Reminder That Cannabis Contracts Are Worthless Because Weed is Not Legal Under Federal Law
Hello Farms, a Michigan marijuana grower, signed a supply contract with GR Vending and CURA MI. GR Vending breached it. Hello Farms sued, a jury heard the case, and the jury awarded Hello Farms $31.8 million. By any normal read of contract law, that’s the end of the story. Somebody breaches a deal, a jury […]