The Steering Wheel: How Crop Steering Became Cultivation’s Loudest Conversation

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Growers used to react to their plants. Now they are learning to guide them. Crop steering is the framework behind that shift, and it is quietly changing how serious cultivators think about every irrigation, every feed, and every degree of climate. Something has changed in the way experienced growers talk about their gardens. A decade…

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Highdro’s New Video Turns a Vegas Pool Cleaning Into a Smoke Session

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The Las Vegas rapper’s new video starts with a guy showing up to clean a pool and ends somewhere else entirely. A pool maintenance worker pulls up to a job in the Las Vegas heat. Somebody in the backyard passes him something. He does not finish cleaning the pool. That’s the setup for “RAW SUMMER,”…

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King Gizzard Built Its Own Festival Instead of Touring. It Starts Friday.

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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard headline all three nights of their own festival in the Colorado Rockies this weekend, with 24 acts, a fan-run bootlegger alley and almost nowhere left to camp. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard will play six shows in North America this year. Three of them happen this weekend, in…

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What Happened to the Cannabis Goody Bag?

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Once a symbol of abundance, the cannabis goody bag has gotten leaner. Maybe what’s disappearing isn’t just free weed, but a culture of generosity. Three years ago on 4/20, I attempted something wildly ambitious: creating a beautiful cannabis goody bag for my first live event: “Women, Writing, Weed and Wine.” Not decent or okay or…

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Thailand Says Weed Is Medical-Only Now. I Bought Four Joints Without a Prescription.

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This article was originally published by Cultivated and is republished here with permission. Sawadee krab!  I was in Thailand this week visiting my wife’s family and I had to satisfy some professional curiosity and see what was going on in the country’s cannabis market for myself. I’ve been coming to Thailand regularly for over a…

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Stoners Warned Us About Flock Cameras. Turns Out It Wasn’t Paranoia.

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By Javier Hasse and Camila Berriex Wisconsin police used a nationwide camera network to reconstruct one man’s trips to Michigan, then cited those trips in the case they built to search his car for weed. In one California town, the same company’s cameras got the plate wrong in 71% of the alerts they sent to…

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Hemp Just Got 29 More Days Before the Ban. The White House Has Already Promised There Won’t Be Another Delay.

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Congress voted last year to strip most hemp THC products of their federal legal status, starting November 12. On Saturday morning, the Senate pushed that date to December 11. Here is what the ban actually does, what the vote changed and why this extension is probably the last one. At 3:35 on Saturday morning, after…

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New York to Allow Weed Sales at Farmers Markets, Giving Small Growers a Fighting Chance

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New York has expanded access to Cannabis Showcase Events, giving licensed microbusinesses more ways to participate in temporary markets and reach consumers beyond traditional dispensaries. The change creates new opportunities for small operators, although events remain tightly regulated and growers still face the broader challenges of cost, competition, and compliance. Buying vegetables, artisanal cheese, and…

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Snoop Dogg’s Father Can Get Almost Any Weed He Wants. He Still Can’t Find Panama Red.

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From his first joint overlooking San Francisco to “happy smoke” in Vietnam, backyard plants in Inglewood, postal routes, Amsterdam coffeeshops and today’s legal dispensaries, Vernell “Papa Snoop” Varnado has lived through nearly every era of modern American cannabis culture. Vernell Varnado remembers the date he arrived in California. “August 28, 1966,” he says. He had…

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Opinion: Cannabis Should Be Mandatory. The ‘Normie’ World Needs a Joint More Than Anyone.

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What would happen if everyone, from world leaders to stay-at-home moms, tried weed? Cannabis might function less as escapism and more as a tool for empathy, introspection, and slowing down an increasingly hyperproductive world. The real danger may not be getting high, but remaining trapped inside a version of “normality” built on stress, ego, and…

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