Month: December 2025

New Jersey Medical Marijuana Program Sees Steep Drop In Registered Patients

Most other states allow people to grow their own marijuana at home, particularly medical marijuana users, while New Jersey still fully bans it. By Sophie Nieto-Muñoz, New Jersey Monitor New Jersey’s steep decline in medical marijuana patients continued with another 20 percent drop since the beginning of 2025. Between January and December, roughly 14,000 people […]

Ohio Governor And GOP Senator Criticize Activists Pushing Referendum To Reverse Marijuana And Hemp Restrictions

“The [2023] ballot initiative had absolutely zero effect on anything in the hemp industry. But it sounds like that’s the vast majority of what people want to overturn.” By Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Journal Ohioans for Cannabis Choice is mounting a referendum effort against a new law cracking down on intoxicating hemp and making several […]

Legal Weed Finally Arrived in Kentucky. It Didn’t Last a Week

Kentucky’s first medical cannabis dispensary sold out its entire inventory in just seven days, then temporarily closed, a fast start that highlights both intense statewide demand and the tight supply constraints of a brand-new program. The Post Dispensary in Beaver Dam opened December 13 and exhausted its limited stock by December 20, owner Trip Hoffman […]

Ohio petition could put cannabis back on the ballot (Newsletter: December 31, 2025)

TX hemp rules; FL legalization lawsuit; CA marijuana research grants; Study: DUI laws jail innocent cannabis users; Biggest marijuana stories of 2025 Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… […]

Texas Officials Invite Comment On New Hemp Rules Covering Age Limits, Licensing Fees, Labeling And More

Texas health officials have released a set of proposed rules to regulate the state’s hemp market—including provisions related to age-gating, licensing fees, testing requirements, packaging restrictions and more in response to an executive order the governor signed in September. The proposal would also shift hemp to a total THC standard, rather than the current one […]

A Big Push to Ban Weed Sales in Arizona Is Just Getting Started

Arizona voters approved adult-use cannabis in 2020 by a wide margin, opening the door to a regulated market that now includes more than 100 licensed dispensaries across the state. Five years later, a new ballot initiative is attempting something unusual: keeping marijuana legal while dismantling the legal cannabis industry itself. The proposal, known as the […]

High Times Is Back. Here’s What We Built in 5.5 Months

High Times officially turned the lights back on July 16, 2025. We didn’t relaunch anything. We reopened the site and started publishing again. And pretty quickly, it became clear that the thing still worked. When the doors open and the work is real, people show up. Writers. Readers. Artists. Growers. Longtime supporters and people discovering […]

It’s 4:20. Watch ‘Don’t Be A Clown,’ High Times’ Weed-Themed Short Film

High Times just dropped “Don’t Be A Clown,” a lean cannabis satire written, directed and produced by Dan Levy Dagerman (High Concept Entertainment), in partnership with High Times Magazine and Official Cannabis Seed Company. It stars Luke Jones, Eric Ochoa, Gata, Lynette Shaw, Charley Rossman and Brooke Burgstahler. It cold-opens like a preview: Arty under […]

California Officials Award $30 Million In Marijuana Revenue To Support Research On THC Drinks, Terpenes And Tribal Cannabis Sales

California officials have awarded nearly $30 million in grants for marijuana-focused academic research projects. The government-funded studies will focus on issues such as cannabis use by older people, the effects of THC beverages, the therapeutic potential of novel cannabinoids, how compounds like terpenes affect product flavoring, tribal participation in the legal market and the environmental […]

The Year in Weed: 2025’s Biggest Moments

With over 55 million cannabis fans in America, 2025 was a year of big wins and stinging losses. From headway in the hash world and LA’s indoor farms to High Times’ resurgence and landmark findings in the scientific world, the ganja news came like a firehose in 2025, and here’s a distillation of the top […]

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