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Landrace Strains Are Populations Shaped by People and Place
Landrace is one of those cannabis words that gets used a lot and defined rarely. The short version: a landrace strain is a population shaped over generations by…
Ancient Burial Yields Oldest Evidence Yet of Humans Getting High on Cannabis
2,800 years ago, people were already getting high. Archaeologists found THC and CBN in hair braids from a burial mound in Siberia, along with more than 1,400 cannabis…
Beard Bros High Five: Five Questions, Straight Answers from Cannabis Leaders
Beard Bros Pharms asks cannabis leaders the same five questions in every High Five interview. That consistency turns individual profiles into something more useful: a running record of…
DEA Judge Admits GAO Report but Refuses to Reopen Marijuana Rescheduling Hearing
The DEA rescheduling judge admitted a September GAO report into the record but denied opponents’ request to reopen the hearing for new discovery and testimony. The ruling adds…
78 Percent of Cannabis Consumers Say a Candidate’s Cannabis Policy Decides Their Vote
A NuggMD survey conducted for NORML found 78 percent of cannabis consumers say a candidate’s cannabis position will influence their midterm vote. The result crosses party lines—but measures…
280E Is No Longer One Cannabis Tax Story. Medical and Adult-Use Operators Now Face Different Federal Rules
Federal cannabis tax treatment split in 2026: qualifying state-licensed medical marijuana moved to Schedule III, while adult-use marijuana remains Schedule I. Public-company filings show why 280E relief and…
Zangria Strain Guide: The Original Z x Thin Mint Cookies, From Fiya Farmer to Wizard Trees
Zangria is commonly documented as The Original Z (Zkittlez) x Thin Mint Cookies. The original cross is attributed to Fiya Farmer, while Wizard Trees later popularized the cultivar…
Grown Rogue Grows Only When Demand Shows Up First
Grown Rogue’s expansion model is deliberately demand-led: build cultivation in phases, prove sell-through and quality, then deploy more capital. Minnesota shows the strategy in practice with an 8,000-square-foot…
Canopy and Safe Harbor Are Learning What a Reverse Split Cannot Fix
Canopy Growth and Safe Harbor both faced Nasdaq’s $1 minimum bid rule. Reverse splits can repair the quoted share price; they cannot create operating performance, capital or investor…
Hall of Flowers Kept the Trade Floor Closed and Opened the City Around It
Hall of Flowers kept its New York trade floor B2B while building a public four-day cultural program around it. The model shows how an industry event can serve…
The OG Kush Family Tree and the People Who Kept It Alive
OG Kush’s history is a story of living genetics, not just strain names: Florida material carried west, one surviving cutting propagated in Los Angeles, and decades of growers…
Oregon Cannabis CEO Indicted Over $1.5 Million in Unpaid Payroll Taxes
Federal prosecutors charged La Mota CEO Rosa Cazares with eight counts involving more than $1.5 million in allegedly unpaid payroll taxes. The case is a blunt reminder that…
Curaleaf Says Aurora Is Keeping the Highest Bidder Out of the Room
Curaleaf’s revised hostile bid values Aurora at an implied $5 per share, while Aurora’s board says the offer remains inadequate and continues reviewing alternatives. The fight is now…
Green Thumb Says Massachusetts Question 8 Puts $330 Million in Taxes at Risk
Massachusetts Question 8 would end licensed adult-use cannabis sales in 2028 while preserving a narrower medical market. The state’s own voter guide says adult-use taxes produced about $330…
Beard Bros Partners With British Cannabis to Take Cannabinoid Products Global
Beard Bros and BRITISH CANNABIS announced a commercial collaboration focused on cannabinoid products across the UK, Europe and North America. The opportunity is real—but the announcement is a…
New Jersey’s Unlicensed Cannabis Crackdown Has Teeth. Enforcement Is Still the Test.
New Jersey S4287 would impose steep penalties on unlicensed marijuana retailers. The state’s own audit shows why enforcement matters—but the bill is not law yet.
Licensed Operators Pushing a Hemp THC Ban Are Making a Historic Mistake
The hemp-THC fight should be about regulatory parity, consumer protection and product-specific risk—not simply whether an intoxicating cannabinoid came from a plant legally classified as hemp or marijuana.
DEA Rescheduling Hits Another Stall With an October 21 Deadline Attached
Published before an October 21 DEA deadline, this article tracks the motion to reopen the broader marijuana-rescheduling hearing. Updated October 31 with the later ruling and the 2026…
How Questionable Cannabis Regulations Actually Get Made
California’s cannabis-packaging debate shows why good regulation needs more than good intentions: real public-health signals, clear causal evidence, precise rules and measurement of whether the intervention actually works.
Massachusetts Question 8 Is a Real Cannabis Rollback. The Driving Debate Needs Better Evidence.
Massachusetts Question 8 would end commercial adult-use cannabis sales while preserving possession and medical marijuana. The impaired-driving debate deserves more precision than a THC-positive statistic.
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