SAMHSA dropped its annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health at the end of July, and the numbers should be front page news in every state legislature still clutching pearls over legalization. Past-month cannabis use among teenagers fell 22 percent between 2022 and 2025. Past-year use dropped 25 percent over the same stretch. Fewer teens are even trying the stuff for the first time. Young adults, ages 18 to 25, saw smaller but still real declines: 10 percent for past-month use, 12 percent for past-year use.
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Yes, cops should do mushrooms. So should firefighters, paramedics, prison guards, and — while we’re at it — the prisoners themselves. Not recreationally on shift, obviously. Under medical supervision, as part of a deliberate effort to treat the psychological wreckage that these jobs, and this system, leave behind. Let me explain why I think that’s not a punchline, but a policy position with real evidence behind it
Fox News opinion ran a piece recently from Scott Chipman, vice president of Americans Against Legalizing Marijuana, arguing that legal cannabis "didn't kill the black market, it created a marketing department for it."
Corporate valuation increased in 21 of the 38 states studied following medical marijuana legalization. Gross profit per employee and gross sales per employee each rose by more than $8,000. Patent output climbed 10.4% across those states, and the economic value of those patents — not just the count, but how much they were actually worth — rose 22%, as states became better at both retaining their existing inventors and pulling in new ones from states that hadn't legalized.
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For the past five years, Texas has lived in a strange legal limbo. The 2018 Farm Bill legalized hemp at the federal level, defining it as cannabis with 0.3% or less delta-9 THC by dry weight. Texas, like most states, wrote that definition into its own hemp program. Entrepreneurs took the opening and ran with it, building a multi-billion-dollar industry of delta-8, delta-10, THCA flower, and other hemp-derived cannabinoids that got people high without technically being "marijuana." The Texas Department of State Health Services tried to shut this down by rule in 2021, reclassifying those cannabinoids as Schedule I controlled substances. A court blocked it with an injunction. For five years, the shops stayed open.
According to the latest quarterly NuggMD/Marijuana Moment tracking poll, only 48 percent of marijuana consumers now approve or strongly approve of the Trump administration’s cannabis actions. That’s down from 73 percent last quarter. Thirteen percent disapprove, and a striking 40 percent have simply checked out into “no opinion” territory. When four in ten of your most engaged constituency shrugs at you, that’s not apathy. That’s disillusionment wearing apathy’s coat.
Senate Democrats just refiled a bill that does the thing rescheduling was never designed to do: end federal cannabis prohibition outright. Cory Booker, Chuck Schumer, and Ron Wyden reintroduced the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act on July 16, and while it will almost certainly die in a Republican-controlled House the same way its last two versions did, it's worth sitting with why this bill matters more than the rescheduling process everyone in Washington is currently fixated on.
I'm not a doctor and I'm not diagnosing Sharon Stone. I'm telling you that the simplest explanation on the table — a woman with a serious neurological history had a rough physiological month after stacking two withdrawals back to back — doesn't need a villain. It got one anyway, because "modern weed is poison" is a better headline than "recovery is complicated."
