This makes us now ponder if the future of the marijuana industry will be handed over to Big Cannabis, as this move may capitalize on a huge financial shift (possibly the biggest one we’ve ever seen): quite possibly, it could signal the end of the 280E tax laws due to Schedule III reform.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt described the rescheduling as something the president did 'at the behest of the American public, who largely support it.' That framing deserves scrutiny. The American public largely supports full federal legalization. They were given partial medical rescheduling. These are not the same thing, and the study makes that impossible to misread.

Here is where it breaks down. Section 2 of the application — the Activity section — asks applicants to specify which substances they handle. One of those questions asks whether your firm will be handling or dispensing recreational marijuana. If you answer yes, you are, by the federal government's own definition, admitting to trafficking a Schedule I controlled substance. On a federal form. With your name, address, Social Security number, and Tax ID attached.

Minnesota's Department of Health just released the latest results of its triennial Minnesota Student Survey, and the headline reads like a prohibitionist's nightmare: there has been a 57.7 percent statewide drop in self-reported past-year cannabis use from 2013 to 2025 among 8th, 9th, and 11th graders combined. "96 percent of students report not having used cannabis in the last month," the department said in its release. Gov. Tim Walz legalized adult-use cannabis in 2023, making this the first survey cycle conducted since the state ended prohibition.

She ordered from 10 seed banks over two years. Spent $1,000 of her own money. Tracked three things — germination rates, shipping reliability, and genetics quality — and wrote it all up without monetizing a single word of it. No affiliate links buried in the copy. No sponsored sections dressed up as opinions. Just notes from someone who got tired of hitting the same recycled listicles every time she searched "best seed banks" and decided to build the resource herself.

Per the White House's own fact sheet, the executive order does several things. It directs the FDA Commissioner to issue National Priority Vouchers to psychedelic drugs that have already received Breakthrough Therapy designation, which is meant to speed up the review process.

Let's get one thing straight before the spin machine buries it: the federal rescheduling of cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III did not happen because Donald Trump had a change of heart about the plant. He didn't wake up one morning with a profound respect for the 50-year fight cannabis advocates have waged against the federal government.

Here we are in 2026, and a conflict that was supposed to wrap up in six weeks is entering its seventh with no visible exit strategy. The Strait of Hormuz — through which roughly 20-21% of the world's oil flows — is now effectively a choke point in a standoff that benefits defense contractors, arms dealers, and oil speculators while regular people pay the price at the pump and at the grave.

Read it carefully and you'll find something remarkable — not alarm, not moral panic, but a measured, almost bored scientific assessment. Dr. W.W. Stockberger of the Bureau of Plant Industry told the publication there was "no reason to become excited about a sporadic outbreak of hasheesh addiction." Hemp had been growing wild across America for years. Workers labored in hemp fields their whole lives and "never became addicts." Cannabis had a "large and legitimate use in veterinary medicine." It grew wild from the Atlantic coast to the Western plains. It was, in the view of the government's own plant scientists, a weed.

There's a specific kind of credibility that only comes from the inside. When cannabis advocates say the Controlled Substances Act is a broken instrument of policy failure, it gets filed under "predictable." When a former senior DEA official writes the same thing in a peer-reviewed paper published in Science, it lands differently.