A 10-Year-Old Built an AI “Nose” for Airports. Could It One Day Detect Drugs?
Won’t somebody please think of the children?! Well, there’s no need this time, because it seems the children are already thinking of us. Hsu Ting-wei, a 10-year-old from Taiwan, has just won a gold medal and the Best Invention Award from the International Federation of Inventors’ Associations (IFIA) for a device that looks like something…
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Stacey Rusch Knows How to Sell a Story
Before cannabis, Stacey Rusch spent years learning how to hold an audience, whether the room contained yoga students, morning-news viewers, QVC shoppers, or a table full of Real Housewives. There is a 2021 résumé still circulating online that explains Stacey Rusch better than most reality-TV biographies ever could. It is from years before SHAYO and…
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Black Cannabis Week Returns to Philadelphia Sept. 25-27, With a Free Expungement Clinic
Three days in Philadelphia, September 25 to 27, with a free record-clearing clinic and a community day open to anyone. Black Cannabis Week returns to Philadelphia from September 25 to 27, built around the ninth annual Cannabis Opportunities Conference presented by the Diasporic Alliance for Cannabis Opportunities. The Philadelphia-based platform was founded to close the…
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Barney’s Farm: 40 Years of Cannabis Seed Genetics
Four decades after its Amsterdam beginnings, Barney’s Farm is marking the milestone with new markets, new infrastructure, F1 breeding projects, and a return to regular seeds. Some legacies are built in laboratories. This one began in the heart of Amsterdam, a city long associated with cannabis culture. Barney’s Farm grew out of a small circle…
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The Americans Most Convinced Weed Is Bad for You Don’t Smoke It Themselves. So, How Do They Know?
Gallup’s new numbers hold a small, awkward pattern: the Americans most convinced cannabis is bad for people are, group for group, the ones least likely to use it. 17% of American adults told Gallup this summer that they smoke cannabis, tying the highest figure the pollster has recorded on that question and more than double…
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The FDA Wants to Know How You Use Cannabis—Useful or Concerning?
The FDA is seeking outside data and analytics services to better understand how people use cannabis, CBD, and other emerging products through public social-media conversations, consumer surveys, and market intelligence. The request does not establish access to private messages, but it does point to a much more systematic federal effort to analyze how cannabis consumers…
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Chile’s Cannabis Crackdown Is Officially Here: Inside Operación Imperio Ámsterdam
Chile’s Operación Imperio Ámsterdam (Operation Amsterdam Empire, in English) mobilized more than 500 police officers and around twenty prosecutors, resulting in more than 70 arrests and the dismantling of a network linked to Dispensario Nacional, leaving more than 16,000 medical cannabis users facing disrupted access. The crackdown has brought longstanding legal gaps around collective cultivation…
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100% More THC = 15% Stronger High. So Why Did Weed Spend 30 Years Chasing the Number?
Researchers gave people 5 mg of inhaled THC and rated the high at 34 out of 100. They doubled it to 10 mg. The high went to 39. Cannabis’ most plentiful and active ingredient, the cannabinoid molecule Delta 9 THC, first isolated in 1964 by legendary Israeli chemists Raphael Mechoulam and Yehiel Gaoni, creates a…
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Who Are the Latino Leaders Cannabis Should Know? Nominations Open Friday for the First Latino Power 100.
A new annual list will name 100 Latino and Hispanic leaders shaping cannabis around the world. Nominations open Friday; anyone can submit one, including for themselves, and nominees can live anywhere. Who are the Latino leaders cannabis should be paying attention to? Maybe it is a founder building a company in California. Maybe it is…
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‘Marijuana Can No Longer Remain in Schedule I’: Inside the Government’s Final Case for Rescheduling Weed—and the Witnesses It Tore Apart
The government spent most of its final brief making the legal case for Schedule III. Then, in the closing pages, it took the opposition’s witnesses apart, and quoted some of those same witnesses to prove cannabis is medicine. One scientist walked away almost untouched. She works at the DEA. The federal government’s closing argument for…
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