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When the System Fails: Why Autistic People Turn to Street Drugs for Medicine

by Reginald Reefer | Saturday Jul 19, 2025

While autistic people are generally less likely to use recreational substances than the general population, those who do use drugs are nine times more likely to be self-medicating for autism-related symptoms and mental health conditions. This isn't a story about drug abuse - it's a story about medical abandonment and the predictable consequences of leaving vulnerable populations to fend for themselves.

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Hemp Gets a One-Year Reprieve - A Collapsing Industry Gets a Stay of Execution?

by Reginald Reefer | Thursday Jul 17, 2025

The U.S. Senate just gave the hemp industry a temporary stay of execution, delaying by one year a catastrophic ban that would have obliterated a $28 billion economic engine overnight. But don't celebrate yet - this isn't mercy, it's political theater designed to give the appearance of reasoned deliberation while the same prohibitionist forces that brought us the War on Drugs prepare to crush an industry that accidentally proved cannabis legalization works perfectly fine.

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ICE Raids Hit the Cannabis Industry - Fear, Tragedy, and Death on a California Marijuana Grow

by Reginald Reefer | Tuesday Jul 15, 2025

Trump’s ICE raids are not about law and order—they’re a grim performance of power, echoing the Gestapo’s fear-driven tactics while serving corporate interests over people. The death of a farmworker, the detention of children, and the terror gripping communities reveal a president who campaigned as a reformer but governs for Big Pharma and surveillance giants like Palantir.

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The Nyx Space Capsule Carrying Cannabis Plants and Human Remains Crashes Back to Earth, Now What?

by Reginald Reefer | Sunday Jul 13, 2025

On June 24th, 2024, the cosmos delivered what might be interpreted as a cosmic joke - or perhaps a pointed message from Mother Earth herself. The Nyx capsule, carrying the cremated remains of 166 humans and cannabis plants destined for space research, crashed spectacularly into the Pacific Ocean when its parachutes failed to deploy.

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No, Weed Won't Rot Your Brain: The Truth Behind That Scary Cannabis-Dementia Study

by Reginald Reefer | Friday Jul 11, 2025

If you've been scrolling through the news lately, you might have seen some alarming headlines suggesting that cannabis use leads to dementia. "Cannabis Users At Higher Risk of Dementia," they screamed, likely causing more than a few of us to pause mid-puff and wonder if we're unwittingly destroying our brain cells.

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Why You Can't Hate on Marijuana Haters - 50 Years of Anti-Cannabis Propaganda Has Rewired Their Brains

by Reginald Reefer | Thursday Jul 10, 2025

This transformation story isn't unique - it's the standard pattern that occurs when propaganda meets reality. The demonization of cannabis represents one of the most successful mind control operations in modern history, a century-long campaign that implanted false beliefs so deeply into our collective consciousness that even today, with mountains of contradictory evidence, millions of people still carry these mental viruses without question.

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Drug Dealer or Hard Working Cannabis Entrepreneur? - The Story of Tony Roe May Change Your Mind

by Reginald Reefer | Wednesday Jul 9, 2025

Tony Roe was sitting in Circuit Court, surrounded by guards, judges, lawyers, and bailiffs, waiting to hear how many years he'd be spending behind bars, and he decided this was the perfect time to expand his market share. That's not criminal behavior - that's entrepreneurial excellence. That's the kind of hustle mentality that would make Gary Vaynerchuk weep with admiration.

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How Big Tobacco is Trying to Steal the Cannabis Industry: The Corporate Hijack No One is Watching Right Now

by Reginald Reefer | Tuesday Jul 8, 2025

The wolves are circling the cannabis industry, and they're wearing familiar sheep's clothing. Altria Group, the tobacco giant behind Marlboro cigarettes and a century of corporate malfeasance, is positioning itself to dominate legal cannabis using the exact same playbook they used to capture and control the tobacco market in the 1990s. This isn't just corporate expansion - it's a calculated theft of an industry that millions of people fought to legalize, often at great personal cost.

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How Marko Glisic Guides Cannabis Businesses to Switch to Digital Payments

by BostonBakedPete | Tuesday Jul 8, 2025

Marko Glisic helps cannabis businesses transition from cash to compliant digital payments by building secure systems that meet regulatory, tax, and reporting requirements.

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The Silent Killer in the Shadows: How Prohibition Claimed a Seven-Year-Old's Life

by Reginald Reefer | Monday Jul 7, 2025

When I heard about seven-year-old Archie York's death in a cannabis lab explosion in Newcastle, my first reaction wasn't the expected outrage at the "drug dealer" responsible. Instead, I felt a familiar, sickening realization: this child's death wasn't just a tragedy—it was entirely preventable. Archie didn't die because cannabis exists; he died because cannabis prohibition forced production underground, into amateur hands, in residential buildings, without safety standards or oversight.