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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Rush’s Alex Lifeson Quit Weed at 72—Says He Never Expected to Feel This Good
Alex Lifeson quit cannabis at 72 while preparing for Rush’s return to the road, saying he wanted better focus, discipline, memory, and mental sharpness. After decades of openly enjoying weed, he says the change has been unexpectedly positive—even if he initially hoped it wouldn’t be. At 72, after decades of having a pretty open relationship…
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Gillian Anderson Opens Up About Drugs: Meth, a School Arrest, and a Bad Weed Trip
Before becoming Dana Scully and spending years investigating unexplained phenomena on The X-Files, Gillian Anderson found herself in a teenage episode that could easily have ended up in one of those files. The actress recounted that, as a teenager, she was arrested after breaking into her school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at night. As she…
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The Universal Baller Put My Daily Driver in the Ground
They sent me a $500 ball vape to review, and it benched the best friend I’ve had for three years. I’d do it again tomorrow. There’s a vape that’s followed me around my duplex for years like a loyal dog. The Cannabis Hardware B1. In the living room for a movie. The desk for the…
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Speed Without Compromise: Eight New Autoflower Strains From Barney’s Farm
Barney’s Farm pairs eight familiar cannabis names with BF Super Auto #1 to deliver faster, light-independent cycles without abandoning the character that made the originals stand out. Championship genetics shouldn’t depend on the season, calendar, or a perfectly managed light cycle. This collection reimagines eight of cannabis’s most celebrated modern names as autoflowers, each crossed…
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Barcelona’s Plan Druida Is Turning Up the Pressure on Cannabis Clubs
Barcelona’s Plan Druida expands police presence and surveillance in response to drug trafficking and use, while also placing the city’s cannabis clubs under renewed pressure. Although authorities present it as a modern public-safety strategy, its focus on control, pressure on cannabis clubs, and drug use reflects the same prohibitionist approach that could deepen the criminalization…
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