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An Open Letter to the Prohibitionists, From an Old School Stoner
I'm an old school stoner. I was here before legalization was a punchline on late-night television, before dispensaries had loyalty programs, before anybody put a leaf on a billboard. I remember when this plant could cost you your kids, your job, your freedom, your life, and people smoked it anyway, because some things are worth the risk. So when I hear rumblings about reversing course, about reclassifying, recriminalizing, rebuilding the machinery of the drug war one quiet regulation at a time, I don't feel panic. I feel something closer to recognition. We've been here before. We know how this goes.
Opinion
The Rescheduling Circus- Notes from the Cannabis Rescheduling Hearing You Might Have Missed
Let's start with the headline nobody in Washington wants to print: marijuana is still illegal. Not "illegal-ish." Not "illegal with an asterisk." Federally, under the Controlled Substances Act, cannabis remains a Schedule I narcotic, officially grouped with heroin and LSD, officially declared to have no accepted medical use. That fact hasn't moved an inch this year, despite a summer's worth of DEA hearings, legal filings, and breathless coverage suggesting otherwise.
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CBD Payment Processing Mistakes That Can Freeze Revenue Overnight
A rolling reserve on a high-risk account holds 5% to 10% of every sale for as long as 180 days. For a CBD merchant, that money is real revenue kept out of reach, and a single processor decision can turn a slow hold into a full freeze overnight. The freeze is rarely random. It follows a mistake the merchant made weeks earlier and never saw as dangerous.
Opinion
The Entourage Effect Isn't One Thing: What a New Receptor Study Actually Found
For years, the cannabis world has treated "the entourage effect" like settled science, a comforting shorthand for why whole-plant weed hits different than an isolated THC pill. Terpenes and cannabinoids work together, the story goes, adding up to more than the sum of their parts. It's a nice idea. It's also, according to a new pre-proof study headed for the journal Biochemical Pharmacology, an oversimplification that's been doing a lot of unearned work in how we talk about cannabis.
Opinion
A Field Guide to American Weed for World Cup Visitors
The Washington State Department of Health just published a health advisory for FIFA World Cup visitors. It includes the standard warnings: start low, go slow, don’t drive, don’t mix with alcohol, edibles can take three hours and last up to 24. It is responsible, accurate, and completely inadequate for anyone who has never encountered what’s on dispensary shelves here.
Opinion
Green Over Grain: Why a Generation Chose Cannabis over Alcohol and What Do We Do Now?
According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), past-year cannabis use among Americans 12 and older climbed from 11.0% in 2002 to 22.3% in 2024 — a 103% increase. Over roughly the same period, past-month alcohol use dropped from 51% to 46.6%, a 9% decline. These aren’t rounding errors. They represent one of the most significant substance-use shifts in modern American history, and it’s happening largely without a formal policy directing it. No public health campaign told people to put down the beer and pick up the joint. They did it on their own.
Medical
If Cannabis Is So Dangerous, Why Does Science Keep Saying the Opposite?
These days, cannabis has successfully permeated almost every field of medicine. This reflects the scientific interest that the plant has attracted over the past 20 years or so. It’s crazy to think that what was once a strictly prohibited body of research is now one of the quickest-growing fields in science. In fact, major universities, health centers, hospitals, and even governments around the world clamor to study weed’s therapeutic benefits.
Opinion
The Neo AI Renaissance: What It Means for Creatives and the World We’re Walking Into
I know. You’re tired of hearing about AI. Half your feed is either someone gushing about their AI-generated side hustle or someone else losing their mind because a machine wrote a poem. The discourse has collapsed into two camps: the breathlessly optimistic and the chronically offended, and somehow neither side is saying anything useful about what’s actually happening.
Opinion
The Mellow High Effect: Why Your Cannabis Highs Taper Off After 25
Around 25, the ECS completes its development. The scaffolding comes down. Endocannabinoid production drops from the elevated levels of adolescence to adult maintenance levels — a significant reduction that shifts the entire baseline of the system.
Opinion
The Cannabis Rescheduling Theater: Same Play, Different Costumes, DEA Writes the Script
The DEA announced the participants for its upcoming cannabis rescheduling hearing. June 2026. Momentous occasion, right? The machinery of federal government finally grinding toward something resembling justice for a plant that’s been federally prohibited for over fifty years.
Opinion
GANJA THEORIES: Open Source Government -The Code That Could Replace Congress
Open source systems optimize for the function they actually perform, because anyone can see the code, find the bugs, propose improvements, and fork the project if the maintainers go sideways. The Linux kernel is more reliable than any proprietary operating system not because the people who built it were smarter, but because the model for building it is fundamentally superior.

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