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The “Skinny Weed” Breakthrough? Scientists Find That Cannabis Compounds May Fight Obesity
What if one of the biggest myths about cannabis has finally been debunked by science, over and over again? For far too long, opponents of legal marijuana have argued that cannabis use leads to individuals who are usually overweight and couch-locked, unable to move, and overwhelmed by a lack of motivation. Images of the stereotypical […]
What the Wholesale Numbers Tell Us About Where Cannabis Markets Are Headed
LeafLink’s Wholesale Cannabis Pricing Guide, drawing on over 400,000 SKUs and billions of dollars in transaction data across 18 U.S. markets throughout 2025, paints a picture of the wholesale cannabis pricing continuing its downward march as markets mature and supply expands — with each market and product category telling a slightly different story. The Big […]
The Machine in the Room: AI, Identity, and What Cannabis Users Should Be Building Right Now
A note before we start: this one is not particularly about cannabis. It is about the world reshaping itself around a technology that nobody fully understands yet, and it closes with a specific message to the stoner community. Stick with me. The debate about AI has a generational fault line running straight through the middle […]
The Post-280E Opportunity: Turning Cannabis Risk Into an Asset
The April 2026 Department of Justice rescheduling order landed with the weight of a decade of advocacy behind it. For an industry that has watched every other legal sector deduct its rent, payroll, and marketing costs while cannabis operators paid taxes on money they never made, the optimism is more than justified. It is earned. […]
The Smoke Screen : Cannabis Triples Your Lung Cancer Risk – What the New Study Gets Right, Wrong, and How to Fix It
A new study drops, and predictably, the headlines follow. Cannabis triples your lung cancer risk. Heavy users beware. Smoke at your peril. The coverage makes it sound like rolling a joint is roughly equivalent to gargling asbestos, and the average reader is left with one clear takeaway: marijuana will kill you. The study in question, […]
What Happens to Your Brain the First Time You Try Psychedelics: New Scientific Research Unlocks the Truth
What Does The Latest Scientific Research Tell Us About How A Psychedelic Trip Affects The Brain For The First Time? Psychedelics were long treated as dangerous drugs, often associated with the counterculture, thanks to the War on Drugs… For many decades, they were linked to music festivals, hippies, and underground cultures, so much so that […]
Dear Wall Street Journal: Your Students Need Better Legalization Arguments
The Wall Street Journal’s Future View recently asked college students whether marijuana should be legal. Several of them wrote thoughtful pieces. A few of them wrote arguments that collapse the moment you apply them consistently. I respect the exercise, and I respect that these are young people working through genuinely complex policy questions. But bad […]
Pre-Roll Packaging in 2026
Pre-rolls generated $4 billion in sales in 2025 and are projected to grow faster than any other top cannabis category, at a 10% compound annual growth rate, according to BDSA retail tracking data. Infused formats now account for 43% of the segment, and the category has grown by 271% since 2020. That kind of volume […]
The Army Wants You Ready. Ready For What, Exactly?
On May 14, 2026, the U.S. Army published an article titled ‘Breaking Down Cannabinoids: How They Compromise Readiness.’ The piece, written by two staffers from the Directorate of Prevention, Resilience and Readiness, runs through the standard arguments: cannabinoids impair judgment, Delta-8 can cause false positives, CBD is banned regardless of what your state law says, […]
Dispensaries Are Winning on Google and Disappearing on ChatGPT
SOCi’s 2026 Local Visibility Index analyzed more than 350,000 business locations across 2,751 brands and found a gap every dispensary operator should take seriously. ChatGPT recommends 1.2% of those locations. Perplexity recommends 7.4%. Gemini reaches 11%. Google’s local 3-pack surfaces 35.9% of the same locations. That is not a small gap. It is a different […]