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Colorado’s Weed Regulator Can Afford 84 of Its 158 Staffers: Four States on What Legalization Left Unfinished.
Legalization was sold as a finish line. Regulators in four states say it was the start of a job that keeps changing, […]
Trump Commutes Two Cannabis Sentences—But What About Rescheduling?
President Donald Trump commuted the federal marijuana sentences of Jerry Haymon IV and Kevin Harden as his administration continues a broader process […]
Trump Just Delayed the Hemp Ban. The New Deadline Is the Day Government Funding Runs Out.
He signed it Wednesday. Most of the federal hemp restrictions now take effect December 11 instead of November 12. That date is […]
‘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 […]
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 never happened. […]
Hemp Just Got 29 More Days Before the Ban. The White House Has Already Promised There Won’t Be Another Delay.
Congress voted last year to strip most hemp THC products of their federal legal status, starting November 12. On Saturday morning, the […]
Texas government outlaws THC—confuses country, consumers, and themselves
The Lone Star mess gives us a preview of the upcoming nationwide hemp ban, with a long-stalled ruling effectively banning hemp THC […]
The Hemp Ban Could Slip a Month. Read the Fine Print Before You Celebrate.
Senate leaders released a stopgap that would push most of the federal hemp deadline to December 11. Cannabinoids the plant cannot make […]
How Washington Killed the Colombian Cannabis Boom And Created the Cocaine Cartels by Accident
This article originally appeared in High Times’ 50th Anniversary print issue. Get yours here. In the 1970s, Colombia’s Sierra Nevada became the […]