Global drug markets are expanding, diversifying, and adapting through new routes, technologies, substances, and consumer patterns, while public policy often struggles to keep pace. The latest UN report shows that drugs are no longer only a matter of substances, but also of markets, public health, inequality, violence, gender, youth, regulation, and state capacity. The new… Keep Reading
Nearly 985,000 cannabis club identity documents were reportedly exposed through public URLs linked to Cannabis Club Systems and PuffPal, raising serious questions about how the industry protects sensitive user data. The incident underscores why privacy is especially critical in cannabis, where leaked information can affect not only finances, but also employment, immigration, reputation, and legal… Keep Reading
Legal cannabis promised legitimacy. Instead, many of the people who carried the culture through prohibition are being priced, regulated, and pushed out of the industry they helped build. I am beyond angry. A lot of us are. People who have lived this industry are not slightly disappointed. Many of us are livid because cannabis is… Keep Reading
Trulieve becomes the first U.S. cannabis company to trade on the NYSE on June 10. To get through the door, it carved the recreational weed out of the company entirely. Wall Street is letting in a U.S. weed company for the first time. Just not the recreational side of it. Florida-based Trulieve said on June… Keep Reading
Psychedelic legislation is moving through more state capitols simultaneously than at any point in history. The question is not whether reform is coming. It is whether it will be done right. In March 2026, Oregon signed into law significant modifications to its psilocybin services program, the first regulated psychedelic access system in the country, now… Keep Reading
A $10 million payment tied to a Florida Medicaid settlement moved through the Hope Florida Foundation, into two anti-drug nonprofits, and then into a political committee fighting marijuana legalization. Public filings also show a major funding surge at SAM Action during the same period. The full picture remains incomplete, but the overlap, timing, and money… Keep Reading
Running April 14 through April 20, SF Space Walk 2026 brings growers, lounges, new flower releases and citywide cannabis culture back into focus, with a month of related programming beginning April 3. San Francisco is getting its weed week back. SF Space Walk, the city’s annual 4/20-season cannabis festival curated by journalist and author David… Keep Reading
My courageous struggle to stay high through the marijuana dark ages of the ‘80s and ‘90s. If you’re not listening to vinyl, you’re not listening, period.It’s vinyl or nothing for me. Literally. — Cannabis enthusiast, 1920s Allan H. is a man of a certain age living in Los Angeles; a place where weed is now… Keep Reading
