The House Voted To Let VA Doctors Recommend Cannabis. ‘It’s Policy Theater,’ Says The Guy Who’s Helped 1,000 Vets Get Cards.
The U.S. House voted last Thursday to let VA doctors recommend medical cannabis to military veterans. Most of the cannabis industry is celebrating. Robb Harmon, who has helped over 1,000 veterans navigate the medical card process through Veterans Cannabis Care, says the vote solves less than people think. On May 14, the U.S. House of…
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He Used to Bust Drug Boats. Now the Feds Are Coming for His Hemp Company.
Lukas Gilkey spent his early twenties intercepting drug shipments for the U.S. Coast Guard. He watched the war on drugs fail in real time. So he came home to Texas and built HomeTown Hero, a hemp company employing 150 people in a state where marijuana is still largely illegal. Now Washington is moving to ban…
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Why Legal Cannabis Doesn’t Belong Next to Gambling and Porn
This article was originally published by Cultivated and is republished here with permission. Legal cannabis may carry risks. But treating it like gambling or AI pornography flattens the debate and ignores the public health, economic and regulatory benefits legalization can create. There seems to be an emerging consensus among mainstream media: Legal cannabis is a…
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TSA Says You Can Now Fly With Medical Marijuana. Good Luck Figuring Out What That Means.
You can fly with medical cannabis now. Sort of. The TSA’s “What Can I Bring?” tool added medical marijuana as a permitted item the day before Schedule III took effect. The catch is the page that’s supposed to tell you the rules. It’s blank. Search “marijuana” in the TSA’s What Can I Bring tool today…
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Your Joint Filter Is A Three-Way Scam. Tobacco Proved It 50 Years Ago.
Strips your terpenes. Wastes your weed. Charges you for the privilege. Tobacco proved this fifty years ago. Cannabis is running it again. The Short Version The chemistry: activated carbon strips volatile terpenes heavily, traps particulate-bound tar only modestly. The tobacco precedent: bench-test reductions disappeared because smokers compensated, then “light” and “low-tar” claims got banned in…
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Terence McKenna’s Daughter Has Been Paying for a Storage Unit in Hawaii for 25 Years. She Just Opened It.
A quarter-century after Terence McKenna’s death, his daughter Klea McKenna is building the archive his legacy deserves — and confronting a storage unit she hadn’t opened in 25 years. The late Terence McKenna isn’t easy to categorise. A lecturer, author, ethnobotanist, philosopher and High Times cover alumnus, McKenna was a defining voice of the psychedelic…
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The Feds Won’t Study Hemp As Food. A Nonprofit Just Did It For $9,379.
A 501c3 commissioned accredited private labs to test whole hemp biomass. The results are preliminary. They also answer a question that USDA’s food-data infrastructure has spent seven years not asking. Hemp has been federal food in the United States since 2018. Seven years later, USDA’s main nutritional database still has no entry for the whole…
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How to Hide Your High, According to People Who Have It Down to a Science
When you’re higher than you planned, paranoia is the real enemy. Five cannabis users share their best techniques for surviving the moment you cross from private to public. Let’s be honest: nothing ruins a good high faster than the sudden panic of having to interact with the world and pretend you’re sober. Your head floats…
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Fergie Baby Turned Getting Fired Into a Harlem Rap Career
After getting fired from multiple legal-sector jobs, Fergie Baby started secretly filming music videos inside Empire’s offices. Instead of firing him, the label signed him. Fergie Baby’s signing story sounds less like a polished industry tale and more like the kind of Harlem legend that gets better every time somebody tells it outside the studio…
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New York’s Microbusinesses Could Save Legal Weed From Becoming Corporate Sludge
Small growers, tighter margins, and a fight against corporate sameness are shaping the next phase of New York cannabis. For years, cannabis legalization has carried the same promise: small operators, legacy growers, and community-rooted businesses would finally get a real shot at ownership. Then the market opens, capital floods in, and suddenly the people who…
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