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The Industry Bet Against Bud. Flower Smokers Never Left.

The cannabis industry spent years predicting flower’s decline. Grown Rogue CEO and co-founder Obie Strickler argues that the prediction said…

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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…

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The Future of Cannabis Tourism Starts on the Farm

Cannabis Wine Tours founder Charles Kimball argues that farmer-hosted experiences can connect visitors with the land while giving small Northern…

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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,…

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Chile Sent 500 Police to Raid a Cannabis Patient Organization Serving 16,000 People. Prosecutors Call It Organized Crime.

Chile’s Operación Imperio Ámsterdam (Operation Amsterdam Empire, in English) mobilized more than 500 police officers and around twenty prosecutors, resulting…

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Trump Signed an Order Paying Farmers to Heal Their Soil. Weed Growers Get Nothing.

Sun-grown cannabis, living soil, and the growers building a regenerative future while federal money flows everywhere but their fields This…

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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,…

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Exclusive: New Study Finds People Drinking THC Beverages Reached for Alcohol Half as Often. Every Product Tested Is About to Be Banned.

4,516 people logged what they drank for three weeks. On the days they had a THC beverage, their odds of…

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A Plane Dropped 300 Feet. The Pilot Tested Positive for Weed. Almost Nobody Mentioned He Wasn’t the One Flying It.

Headlines around the world tied a captain’s positive marijuana test to a terrifying midair plunge. He wasn’t the one flying.…

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Lev Parnas Says He Almost Became a Weed Mogul. Then Came Trump, Ukraine and Prison. Now He’s Running for Congress on a Legalization Platform.

In 2018, Lev Parnas says he was offered ten percent of what became America’s biggest weed company. Trulieve says that…

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