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Cheaper Flower, More Choice, No Surge in Use: The Netherlands’ Cannabis Pilot Delivers Its First Results

For decades, the Netherlands has lived with a long-standing contradiction known as the “backdoor problem”: coffeeshops could sell cannabis under certain conditions as part of the country’s tolerance policy, while the commercial cultivation supplying those shops remained outside the regulated framework. Since April 2025, the country has been trying to resolve that contradiction through a… Keep Reading

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Magic Garden Botanicals Meets Sound System Culture

Cannabis and sound system culture have shared a history for decades. At Submersion Festival this fall, Magic Garden Botanicals’ Smoke Village continues it. Submersion Festival returns to Paradise Lakes Campground in Hammonton, New Jersey, from October 1 through 3, bringing three days of bass music to the edge of the Pine Barrens. Hosted by the… Keep Reading

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In 40 Years, MAPS Partnered With Universities, Clinicians and the Pentagon. It Just Signed Its First Deal With a Weed Shop.

MAPS has spent four decades running clinical trials, lobbying regulators and building the case for psychedelic medicine. It had never partnered with a cannabis company until now. Cannabis and psychedelics have spent most of the last two decades in adjacent rooms with the door closed. Same prohibition, same schedule, largely the same argument, and almost… Keep Reading

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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… Keep Reading

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Daily Cannabis Use in the US Now Outpaces Alcohol as Teen Use Declines 

For decades, cannabis use in the United States was portrayed as a marginal practice, confined to underground culture and considered far less common than alcohol or tobacco use. The federal government’s latest data, however, paint a very different picture.  According to the 2025 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), about 21.4 million Americans… Keep Reading

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The Frank Gallagher Thesis Shaped Welfare For Decades. The Data Just Demolished It.

For decades, governments assumed poor people couldn’t be trusted with unconditional cash. A wave of new evidence says they were wrong. There is a documented phenomenon in the research literature: drug-related hospitalizations spike measurably in the first days of the month, when government disability and welfare checks land. Among SSI recipients with preexisting addictions, within-hospital… Keep Reading

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Everything You Know About CBD Is Probably Wrong

By Michael Krawitz with the assistance of the Veterans Action Council. For many decades, those of us working at the intersection of Veteran healthcare, medical cannabis advocacy, and international drug policy have encountered the same response from the DEA that the international treaties allow the DEA, up until now, to block medical access to cannabis.… Keep Reading

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The Keeper of Thai Weed

On Koh Tao, KD has spent decades preserving landrace genetics, sharing seeds across generations, and treating cannabis less like a product than a living inheritance. There are growers, and then there are keepers of lineage. Aram Limsakul, known as KD, belongs to the latter. In Thailand, where cannabis has long had medicinal and local cultural… Keep Reading

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