Before we dive into survival tactics, let's get one thing crystal clear: the criminalization of cannabis has been one of the most destructive social policies in American history. Over 20 million people have been imprisoned for cannabis-related offenses, transforming the United States into the world's leading jailer. Think about that for a second. We didn't earn that dubious honor by locking up murderers and rapists. We got there by criminalizing a plant.

Medical cannabis prescribing in Australia operates through competing business models. Some clinics charge consultation fees for each appointment. Others eliminate these fees entirely through subscription-based delivery systems. Reddit discussions across r/MedicalCannabisOz, r/MedicalCannabisAus, r/MMJ, and regional forums reveal how patients evaluate these different approaches.

When you're investing time, money, and energy into a grow—whether it's a small tent in your closet or a full outdoor garden—you want to know that your effort is going to pay off. High-yielding strains are like insurance policies: they give you the best chance of actually having something to show for your work when harvest time rolls around.

Fifty-five years later, we're watching the same playbook executed with surgical precision. The 2018 Farm Bill legalized hemp—cannabis containing 0.3% or less delta-9 THC—creating a legal market for CBD products, textiles, and agricultural materials. Entrepreneurs seized this opportunity, building businesses around hemp-derived cannabinoids that technically complied with federal law while producing intoxicating effects similar to marijuana.

Here's the counterintuitive truth that this federally funded study reveals: cannabis plants grown in nutrient-depleted, biologically dead soil produced significantly higher THC levels than plants in rich, healthy soil. The conventionally tilled fields—where soil structure is destroyed annually, beneficial microbes are killed off, and organic matter is depleted—created plants pumping out THC at rates that would make any recreational grower drool.

This is the system working exactly as designed: punishing poor people, disproportionately Black and Latino, for low-level participation in drug distribution while protecting wealthy institutions and individuals whose involvement dwarfs street dealers by orders of magnitude. The new sentencing amendments are a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound. The entire framework deserves to be dismantled and rebuilt from principles of proportionality, equity, and actual justice rather than the current apparatus of class warfare disguised as drug policy.

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What changed? Policy? No. Evidence? No. Trump's messaging? Absolutely. The same poll shows that 74% of Republicans believe Trump is making progress on illegal drugs, compared to just 33% of Democrats and 34% of Independents who feel that way. Republicans convinced themselves that bombing boats and tariff threats constitute effective drug policy, and simultaneously decided cannabis legalization—which they supported just two years ago—is now bad.

There are many reasons why pregnant women can benefit from smoking pot. Aside from reasons that affect everyone: anxiety, stress, pain relief, and insomnia, to name a few, pregnant women also experience conditions that cannabis has proven to help treat. These include pregnancy-induced vomiting and nausea (morning sickness).

This inconsistency reveals something crucial about drug policy: the psychosis argument was never about protecting vulnerable people. It was about justifying prohibition of a substance that threatened certain interests. Because if we genuinely cared about preventing psychosis, we'd be banning social media, AI chatbots, and countless other triggers before we'd prohibit a plant humans have used for thousands of years.