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The Cannabis Rescheduling Theater: Same Play, Different Costumes, DEA Writes the Script
The DEA announced the participants for its upcoming cannabis rescheduling hearing. June 2026. Momentous occasion, right? The machinery of federal government finally grinding toward something resembling justice for a plant that’s been federally prohibited for over fifty years. Except only opponents of rescheduling were invited. That’s not an exaggeration or a framing choice. The Drug […]
How Cannabis Operators Can Build a Tech Stack That Actually Drives ROI
Technology is a major expense for cannabis businesses today. But with shrinking margins and heavy competition, operators cannot afford to waste money on software that doesn’t perform. The big question for leadership is no longer about adopting technology; it is about ensuring that technology solves real daily headaches rather than just adding to the confusion. […]
GANJA THEORIES: Open Source Government -The Code That Could Replace Congress
There is a GitHub repository that most people will scroll past without a second thought. It has no viral tweet driving traffic to it, no venture capital backing, no government grant. What it does have is an idea worth sitting with, maybe the most consequential one to emerge from the margins of political philosophy in […]
What Is Industrial Hemp? Evgeny Skigin Explains Why the World’s Most Useful Crop Is Finally Having Its Moment
When Evgeny Skigin started working with industrial hemp in 2008, the crop was widely dismissed in European finance as an agricultural curiosity with limited commercial potential. Sixteen years later, France alone harvests roughly 23,000 hectares of hemp annually, and the European market for industrial hemp products is projected to expand from $3.6 billion to $25 […]
The Anti-Mind Control Substance: Is Cannabis a Threat to the System?
Cathy O’Brien is a controversial figure. A survivor of what she claims was a CIA-connected mind control program called MK-Ultra, her testimony occupies the uncomfortable intersection between documented government abuse of citizens and conspiracy theory territory that most mainstream commentators prefer to dismiss wholesale. I’m not here to adjudicate her specific claims. What I am […]
Pennsylvania Hemp Beverage Regulation: Why HB 2309 and SB 49 Are Two Very Different Bills
Yesterday, the Pennsylvania Senate rejected SB 49, Sen. Dan Laughlin’s Cannabis Control Board bill, on a 27-23 floor vote. Then, within the same session, lawmakers filed a motion to reconsider, and it passed 29-21. The bill lives, for now, in a kind of legislative purgatory. If you follow the hemp beverage space in Pennsylvania and […]
Robinhood Just Made It Easier To Invest In Cannabis – Are You Buying Yet?
For years, investing in the US cannabis industry has been frustrating to say the least. The legal cannabis industry has generated billions of dollars annually in sales, not to mention hundreds of thousands of jobs, and is accepted in most states. Despite the massive growth, everyday investors haven’t been able to benefit from investing in […]
Hemp Beverage Operators Are in Fight Mode
“Everybody who came here today, and not giving up and saying that we’re going to continue to fight for this category, thank you, give yourself a round of applause, please,” were the fighting words of Christopher Lackner, President of the Hemp Beverage Alliance (HBA), as he opened the panel discussions for the Hemp Beverage Expo […]
How to Make a Medical Cannabis Study Say Whatever You Need It To Say
A study dropped in The Lancet Psychiatry in March 2026 and the headlines wrote themselves. The largest review of medicinal cannabis ever conducted. Fifty-four randomized controlled trials. Forty-five years of data. Conclusion: no evidence that cannabinoids effectively treat anxiety, depression, or PTSD. The three conditions that drive most medicinal cannabis use worldwide. News outlets ran […]
Glass Ceilings and Green Futures: Why Greenhouse Growing Should Be the Cannabis Industry Standard
The cannabis industry has a dirty secret, and it has nothing to do with the plant. It’s the power bill. Right now, the dominant model for cannabis production in the United States is indoor cultivation — sealed warehouses stuffed with high-intensity discharge lights, industrial HVAC systems running around the clock, and CO2 tanks pumping carbon […]