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Who Killed the U.S. Cannabis Market? Blame Canadian Investment Bankers

How speculative finance and distorted incentives hollowed out American weed. On a sunny afternoon in Santa Monica in the spring…

3 months ago

Jim Belushi on Weed, His Latest Movies and the Mess We’re in Right Now

Now 71, Chicago-born Jim Belushi is having a moment with roles in two current films – Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology…

3 months ago

The Devil’s Lettuce Wears Prada: Stylist Patricia Field Is Bringing THC to Fashion Week

Cannabis has been moving through that underground-to-icon pipeline for decades. So when Patricia Field’s universe collides with a hemp-derived THC…

3 months ago

Tegridy Ruined Randy

Tegridy Farms turned South Park’s most unpredictable character into a one-note caricature, mirroring how cannabis capitalism hollowed out something that…

3 months ago

The Power 100: The Black Leaders Who Built Cannabis, Not Just the Ones You Know

As the cannabis industry professionalizes, consolidates, and globalizes, a basic question still goes unanswered far too often:Who built this space,…

3 months ago

You’re Not Supposed to Smoke Weed Here. So Why Did This Feel Normal?

I was told (correctly) that cannabis in the Dominican Republic is illegal. Minutes later, after a conversation that felt less…

3 months ago

This 72-Year-Old Has Been to 24,000 Concerts. Weed Is How He Keeps Going.

As a metaphor for the passage of time, The Simpsons’ episode “Homerpalooza” (season 7, episode 24) portrays Homer in an…

4 months ago

The Fight Over 7-OH Is Splitting the Kratom World

On July 29th, 2025, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. took the stage at a press…

4 months ago

Joy Is Still a Valid Reason to Smoke Weed

On pleasure, respectability, and the parts of cannabis culture worth protecting. The other night I got high with a few…

4 months ago

Meet Weedy Won K, the Viral Stoner Turning Bad Weed Ideas Into Comedy

A single stoner can stand in for all stoners. Within an environment centered around education, science, data, and health—that is,…

4 months ago