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CBD Payment Processing Mistakes That Can Freeze Revenue Overnight
A rolling reserve on a high-risk account holds 5% to 10% of every sale for as long as 180 days. For a CBD merchant, that money is real revenue kept out of reach, and a single processor decision can turn a slow hold into a full freeze overnight. The freeze is rarely random. It follows […]
The Entourage Effect Isn’t One Thing: What a New Receptor Study Actually Found
For years, the cannabis world has treated “the entourage effect” like settled science, a comforting shorthand for why whole-plant weed hits different than an isolated THC pill. Terpenes and cannabinoids work together, the story goes, adding up to more than the sum of their parts. It’s a nice idea. It’s also, according to a new […]
Cannabis Quality Conference Call for Abstracts is Now Open
Do you have practical insights that can help advance cannabis quality, safety, compliance, or laboratory science? The Cannabis Quality Conference is accepting presentation proposals for its 2026 conference, co-located with the 15th Anniversary Food Safety Consortium Conference & Expo, taking place October 21 to 23 in Washington, DC. Abstract submission Deadline: July 31 Submit your […]
Why Dietary Supplements Are the First Pathway for Cannabis Medicine
The cannabis industry has spent years waiting for this moment. As federal rescheduling moves forward, so do the opportunities to develop cannabinoid-based supplements and medicines backed by more rigorous scientific research. For some companies, this isn’t a new direction. It’s the payoff from years of work happening behind the scenes. Alleh Lindquist, CEO and co-founder […]
A Field Guide to American Weed for World Cup Visitors
The Washington State Department of Health just published a health advisory for FIFA World Cup visitors. It includes the standard warnings: start low, go slow, don’t drive, don’t mix with alcohol, edibles can take three hours and last up to 24. It is responsible, accurate, and completely inadequate for anyone who has never encountered what’s […]
Green Over Grain: Why a Generation Chose Cannabis over Alcohol and What Do We Do Now?
Two trend lines. Twenty-two years of data. They couldn’t be moving in more opposite directions. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), past-year cannabis use among Americans 12 and older climbed from 11.0% in 2002 to 22.3% in 2024 — a 103% increase. Over roughly the same period, past-month alcohol use […]
If Cannabis Is So Dangerous, Why Does Science Keep Saying the Opposite?
Ever since the War on Drugs began, marijuana has been portrayed as an extremely dangerous drug. Organizations and governments spent millions of dollars on anti-marijuana campaigns, and even enlisted the education system, trying to warn students that smoking weed was a gateway to harmful substances and other drugs. Meanwhile, millions of innocent people were arrested […]
What Pre-Roll Complaints Reveal About Your Manufacturing Process
Pre-roll complaints do not always show up the way other product issues do. A failed device may come back to the store. A vape problem may create a clearer return path. A broken package or hardware issue is easier to document. Pre-rolls are different. They are also too important to treat casually. In Headset’s recent […]
The Neo AI Renaissance: What It Means for Creatives and the World We’re Walking Into
I know. You’re tired of hearing about AI. Half your feed is either someone gushing about their AI-generated side hustle or someone else losing their mind because a machine wrote a poem. The discourse has collapsed into two camps: the breathlessly optimistic and the chronically offended, and somehow neither side is saying anything useful about […]
The Mellow High Effect: Why Your Cannabis Highs Taper Off After 25
I’m 42. I’ve been smoking since before I was 16. And I will never again get as high as I did that first year. That’s not a complaint. It’s not even a loss, once you understand what was actually happening. But most long-term users chalk the change up to “tolerance” and leave it there, which […]