Survival Crop: When Countries Collapse, Cannabis Becomes a Lifeline
Three countries in collapse. Three cannabis economies that survived. What Lebanon, Myanmar and Afghanistan reveal about the plant when the state disappears. […]
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Veterans, Cannabis, and the System That Failed Them
Broken healthcare, cannabis prosecutions, and billion-dollar privatization schemes are pushing veterans toward alternatives the federal government still punishes them for using. Rico […]
Watch: The Texas Lt. Governor Called Hemp Sellers ‘Terrorists.’ Our New Documentary Goes Inside The Fight.
Episode 2 of High Times’ Texas Cannabis Chronicles goes inside the machinery of the crackdown, where the Lieutenant Governor called hemp operators […]
Virginia’s Governor Says Legal Weed Was Moving Too Fast. The States That Moved Fast Are Doing Fine.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger explained her cannabis veto: she didn’t want to rush like other states. The problem is that the states that […]
The Feds Rescheduled Weed. Truckers Still Can’t Touch It, Medical Card Or Not.
Schedule III didn’t change a thing for truckers. A new USDOT memo confirms that safety-sensitive transportation workers still can’t use marijuana, and […]
Ilhan Omar Thinks ‘A Lot Of People’ In Congress Smoke Weed. Then She Flashed A Peace Sign And Left.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, told TMZ there are “a lot of people who smoke cannabis in Congress.” […]
Virginia’s Democratic Governor Promised To Legalize Weed Sales. Then She Vetoed The Bill.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger vetoed the bill that would have launched legal adult-use cannabis sales, five years after the state legalized possession. […]
The House Voted To Let VA Doctors Recommend Cannabis. ‘It’s Policy Theater,’ Says The Guy Who’s Helped 1,000 Vets Get Cards.
The U.S. House voted last Thursday to let VA doctors recommend medical cannabis to military veterans. Most of the cannabis industry is […]
He Used to Bust Drug Boats. Now the Feds Are Coming for His Hemp Company.
Lukas Gilkey spent his early twenties intercepting drug shipments for the U.S. Coast Guard. He watched the war on drugs fail in […]
Why Legal Cannabis Doesn’t Belong Next to Gambling and Porn
This article was originally published by Cultivated and is republished here with permission. Legal cannabis may carry risks. But treating it like […]