Ohio Activists Plan Referendum To Block New Law Rolling Back Marijuana Rights And Restricting Hemp Sales
Ohio activists are launching a campaign to hit the brakes on a bill the governor recently signed to scale back the state’s voter-approved marijuana law and ban the sale of consumable hemp products outside of licensed cannabis dispensaries. Ohioans for Cannabis Choice said on Friday that they’d be collecting signatures for the statewide referendum, which […]
Trump Wants Marijuana Rescheduling Done Fast — Possibly by January
President Donald Trump has directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to move quickly on finalizing marijuana’s potential reclassification under federal law, following an executive order signed earlier this month. According to The Marijuana Herald, which cited two sources close to the president, Trump privately instructed Bondi to complete the rescheduling process by the end of January. […]
Even the Feds Say Teen Marijuana Use Is Declining
For years, critics of cannabis reform have leaned on the same warning: legal weed will lead to more teens using marijuana. The data keeps telling a different story. According to newly released, federally funded survey data compiled by researchers at the University of Michigan, teen marijuana use has continued its long-term decline and now sits […]
How the Cannabis Lobby Finally Got Trump to Budge
Cannabis didn’t win Trump over with a single argument. It wore him down. For more than a year, executives, advocates, pollsters and old friends circled one of the most famously sober presidents in modern history, pushing a narrow idea again and again: marijuana doesn’t belong in the same federal category as heroin. By the time […]
Federal cannabis legalization commission proposed under Senate bill (Newsletter: December 24, 2025)
Inside Trump’s marijuana meeting; State AGs tell SCOTUS: Keep cannabis user gun ban; Fed study: Teen marijuana use “stable”; Cannabis & holidays 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. (function() { window.mc4wp = window.mc4wp || […]
Supreme Court Should Uphold Gun Ban For Marijuana Users, 19 State AGs Tell Justices
Attorneys general for 19 states and Washington, D.C. are siding with the federal government in a U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide the fate of a law preventing marijuana users from buying or possessing firearms. In an amicus brief for the case U.S. v. Hemani that was submitted to the court on Friday, the […]
State Marijuana Regulators Share Tips On How To Stay Safe And Legal Around The Holidays
Another holiday season has arrived—and, with it, another round of public service announcements from regulators in states that have legalized marijuana that are aimed at advising people about how to comply with the law and stay safe amid the merriment. This has become something of a trend over recent years, with states increasingly using the […]
Wall Street Wants Stock Listings. Cannabis Wants Justice.
The ink was barely dry on President Trump’s cannabis rescheduling order when the same question started bouncing around boardrooms, Discords, and trader timelines: Does this mean cannabis can finally uplist to the NYSE or Nasdaq? Short answer: no. Longer answer: also no, and maybe stop treating Wall Street like it’s the finish line. Schedule III […]
Will cannabis rescheduling affect drug testing for safety-sensitive workers? (Newsletter: December 23, 2025)
Lawmakers push for more marijuana reform; MA anti-cannabis ballot signatures; NJ psilocybin vote; Poll: Americans use marijuana for holiday stress 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… BREAKING: Journalism […]
The Morning the Drug War Kissed Its Own Reflection
How a nationwide DEA dragnet in 1989 turned garden shops into crime scenes, and taught the War on Drugs to police an idea. The first light of dawn had barely bled over the strip mall when the shutters screeched open. A dozen black-clad agents spilled out of unmarked vans. They smashed glass, padlocked doors, and […]