Final briefs filed in cannabis rescheduling hearing (Newsletter: August 19, 2026)
DOJ rule eases marijuana user gun rights restoration; MA legalization rollback poll; Alcohol industry op-ed on hemp drinks 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… Free to read (but […]
The Cannabis Industry Should Join Us In Supporting Hemp Drink Regulation Over Prohibition, Alcohol Industry Lobbyist Says (Op-Ed)
“Opposing a workable regulatory structure because it is not comprehensive cannabis reform risks repeating the very piecemeal approach the cannabis sector has spent years criticizing.” By Dawson Hobbs, Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America The cannabis industry has spent years asking Congress for something more durable than prohibition, enforcement discretion and state-by-state improvisation. That is […]
Regenerative Cannabis Farming: Living Soil, Sun-Grown Weed and No Federal Help
Sun-grown cannabis, living soil, and the growers building a regenerative future while federal money flows everywhere but their fields This past June, President Trump signed an executive order expanding a pilot program the USDA had already funded, routed through conservation programs like EQIP and the Conservation Stewardship Program, which pays farmers for building soil health. […]
Exclusive: New Study Finds People Drinking THC Beverages Reached for Alcohol Half as Often. Every Product Tested Is About to Be Banned.
4,516 people logged what they drank for three weeks. On the days they had a THC beverage, their odds of also drinking alcohol fell by roughly half. The finding held for 23 of the 36 products tested, and moved the same direction in every one. The largest real-world study of hemp THC beverages has published […]
Athletes on Medical Cannabis Want Sleep and Focus, Not Muscle Recovery, Study Finds
Every CBD-for-athletes pitch of the last decade has sold the same story: sore muscles, faster recovery, inflammation. A dataset covering 47,522 people who both train and use medical cannabis says the top complaints are something else entirely. Focus. Sleep. Stress. The recovery pitch has been the entire commercial thesis behind cannabis in sport. Sponsorships, product […]
USPS could deliver medical cannabis under rescheduling, state officials say (Newsletter: August 18, 2026)
DEA & hemp company battle over HHC in federal court; TX Dems bash GOP candidate’s marijuana stance; Yale study on cannabis tax revenue 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 […]
New DOJ Rule Makes It Easier For Marijuana Users To Regain Their Gun Rights
A new Department of Justice rule intended to help restore gun rights to people who have been barred from possessing firearms contains provisions that will block officials from denying applications over the use of marijuana or convictions for cannabis-related activity. The Federal Firearm Rights Restoration policy, announced on Monday, allows people who have been stripped […]
Virginia Hemp Businesses Push Lawmakers For Special Session After Judge Declines To Block New THC Product Restrictions
“The judge himself acknowledged that this was rushed legislation, leading to complications and unintended consequences.” By Samantha Willis, Virginia Mercury A federal judge in Roanoke on Friday declined seven Virginia hemp business owners’ request to eliminate a new regulation that removes an exception to the state’s limit of 2 milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) per product […]
Lev Parnas Interview: Trulieve, Trump and the Cannabis Deal He Says Got Away
In 2018, Lev Parnas says he was offered ten percent of what became America’s biggest weed company. Trulieve says that never happened. Then Rudy Giuliani pulled him into Ukraine, and the case that later put him in federal prison included a scheme prosecutors said was aimed at buying political influence tied to marijuana licenses with […]
Hemp Company Pushes Back On DEA Claim That Synthetic Cannabis Compound HHC Is Illegal
A hemp company is pushing back on a recent court filing from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) about the agency’s stance that a cannabinoid produced synthetically from components of the cannabis plant is federally illegal—saying that its denial of another business’s petition on the issue undermines the arguments the government is making in ongoing litigation. […]