Weed Can’t Get Past 34%. The Labels Go to 42%. The System Rewards the Lie.
A Spanish engineer who has spent sixteen years scanning flower explains how the industry got here — and what it would take to get out. In November 2024, Justin Singer, CEO of the Denver edibles manufacturer Ripple, got fed up with the lack of control over the industry he himself participates in and sent staff…
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Dave Asprey Built Biohacking as a Trojan Horse for Higher Consciousness
The creator of biohacking talks psychedelics, plant intelligence, integration, surrender, and why optimizing the human machine was never the final destination. Psychedelic culture loves a breakthrough. The vision. The revelation. The moment everything suddenly makes sense. We talk endlessly about ego death, mystical experiences, and those flashes of clarity that can make a single night…
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Sonoma County Sent Drones to Find Illegal Weed. Keni Meyer Lost Her Home Over Building-Code Violations Unrelated to Cannabis.
The violations had nothing to do with cannabis. Neither did nearly half the drone flights Sonoma County made in 2024, according to an ACLU lawsuit alleging around 700 warrantless flights over private property since 2019. The county has stopped flying while it negotiates a settlement. A Northern California county has paused a controversial drone surveillance…
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Did Tupac’s Friends Really Smoke His Ashes? The Full Story Behind the Legend
Members of Outlawz have said for years that they mixed some of Tupac Shakur’s ashes with weed and smoked them after his death, claiming the ritual reflected a real conversation and a lyric in “Black Jesuz.” Suge Knight later offered a similar account while saying he personally did not participate, though conflicting versions remain over…
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Land of the Free? US Recorded More Than 200,000 Marijuana Possession Arrests in 2025
State and local police made at least 218,152 marijuana-related arrests in 2025, including 200,960 for possession, which accounted for about 23% of all drug arrests nationwide. The true total may be higher because roughly 13% of law-enforcement agencies did not report arrest data to the FBI and some cannabis cases may be included among unspecified…
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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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