Big Finance Found A New Way To Go After Cannabis: By Policing Speech
In Transaction Denied, Rainey Reitman argues that cannabis was never merely underbanked. It was pushed to the margins by a financial system willing to punish businesses, writers and entire communities for getting too close to the plant. For years, the cannabis industry has been fed some version of the same story. The banking mess is…
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50 Years After “Legalize It,” the Fight Isn’t Over
How Niambe McIntosh Is Defending Her Father’s Work The song opens patiently, almost sweetly, with a voice that has decided not to raise its voice because the truth does not need volume. Fifty years after Peter Tosh first pressed “Legalize It” to vinyl, the track still lands like a dare you cannot refuse, because the…
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Trump Fired Pam Bondi. What Changes For Marijuana Rescheduling?
Trump just pushed out the attorney general he ordered to expedite marijuana rescheduling and replaced her, for now, with former personal lawyer Todd Blanche. Industry sources say the Schedule III push is still moving, but for cannabis readers the bigger question remains the same: even if it happens, what exactly does rescheduling solve? Pam Bondi…
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Pizza Movie Takes the Old Stoner Comedy Blueprint and Lets It Hallucinate
The old stoner-comedy blueprint is still here in Pizza Movie. It just gets pushed through panic, psychedelia and Gen Z chaos until it starts to feel new again. There was a time when the drug comedy had a pretty reliable shape. Someone gets high, something small becomes catastrophic, and the whole movie lives in the…
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A $160K Bracket, Live Finals and Glass Heat: Proper Doinks Will Host a Connoisseur Event on Apr. 25
Proper Doinks is taking High Rollers off the screen and into a six-hour live event with a $160,000 bracket, live finals, a major glass auction and a room built for people who care how weed actually smokes. On April 25, Proper Doinks is throwing the High Rollers Live Show, a six-hour livestreamed event built for…
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The UK’s ‘Cannabis Martyr’ Keeps Opening Weed Cafes. Britain Keeps Locking Him Up.
Gary Youds has spent nearly 20 years opening cannabis cafes in Liverpool, getting raided, getting jailed, and refusing to stop. Gary Youds is best known as the UK’s “cannabis martyr.” That’s because he has continually sacrificed himself for the cause of cannabis legalization. He is currently spending his sixth stint in jail for operating an…
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The Feds Just Started Reimbursing Hemp CBD And THC Products. Anti-Weed Groups Immediately Sued
A limited federal hemp CBD and THC reimbursement program just launched, and anti-marijuana groups are already in court trying to block it. The fight is about access, federal authority and who gets to decide whether cannabinoids belong in patient care. For all the noise around cannabis in Washington, this is one of the more interesting…
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Uruguay Slashes Illicit Cannabis Market to 6.7%—But Faces New Challenges
More than a decade after making history as the first country to legalize adult-use cannabis, Uruguay has entered a new phase: the system works, but it’s no longer enough. Between official data, internal tensions, and new policy proposals, the debate is back in full swing. When Uruguay passed Law 19.172 in 2013, the goal wasn’t…
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Why Ganja Should Be Re-Legalized in India
Author Ed Rosenthal traces how international pressure criminalized a plant long woven into Indian life, and why he believes it is time to bring ganja back under regulation. Follow Ed on Instagram. Introduction: Returning to India With Purpose When I first visited India in 1981, cannabis cultivation was still legal in certain regions. During that…
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This Cult Book Mixed Race, Weed and American Chaos Long Before the Culture Caught Up. Now It’s Back
First published by Random House in 2003, Ghetto Celebrity is not a standard memoir and never really tried to be. Donnell Alexander traces the book back to Tupac Shakur’s death, an LA Weekly story about his absent father, and a writing process shaped by weed, pop culture, race, Midwestern Black life and the kind of…
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