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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 […]
Greening Out: Why a Cannabis-Induced Psychedelic State is No Joke
A “Psychedelic State” Produced by Cannabis Isn’t as Fun as It Sounds A new study out of Johns Hopkins just confirmed something a lot of us already learned the hard way, usually on a couch, usually with someone asking if we were okay: enough THC can knock you into a headspace that looks a lot […]
The $3 ‘Cover Charge’ Cannabis Retailers Are Leaving on the Table
Imagine every customer who enters a dispensary paying the business an additional $3. No new entrance fee. No increase in cannabis prices. No additional foot traffic required. The retailer simply captures about $5 in accessory sales per customer, with an average gross margin of roughly 60%. That produces approximately $3 in additional gross profit from […]
It Smells Like Weed Everywhere – Cannabis Etiquette in 2027 and Beyond
Aryna Sabalenka, the two-time defending U.S. Open champion and the best women’s tennis player on the planet, had to stop mid-service game at Louis Armstrong Stadium a few days ago because someone in or around the crowd was smoking weed hard enough to reach the court. She flagged the umpire, said the smell was so […]
The Home Alchemist: Taking Your Cannabis Harvest Further Than You Thought Possible
So you grew the plant. Maybe it was in a greenhouse, maybe a closet, maybe a spare bedroom you told your mother-in-law is now a “storage room.” Doesn’t matter. You did it. You navigated the weeks of vegetative growth, managed the flip to flower, watched the trichomes go cloudy to amber, harvested, dried, and cured. […]
5 Warming and Cooling CBD Topicals to Compare in 2026
Some CBD topicals announce themselves the second they touch the skin. Menthol produces an immediate chill. Capsaicin and camphor can add warmth. Other formulas skip the temperature shift and feel more like an ordinary moisturizer or balm. That sensory experience has become one of the more useful ways to separate products in an increasingly crowded […]
Big Pharma’s Cannabis Takeover: The Hidden Dangers of Schedule III
Sell the Farm, Lose the Freedom: How Schedule III Could Hand Cannabis to Pharma and Ag I want you to picture the corner of your local farmers market twenty years from now. Same tents, same handwritten signs, same guy selling honey shaped like a bear. Except the produce stand that used to belong to a […]