Alcohol industry backs cannabis drinks legislation (Newsletter: August 12, 2026)
Senate advances bill that may complicate marijuana biz online outreach; VA explains cannabis PSA removal; MI marijuana tax repeal bill; TX hemp ruling 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 […]
Michigan GOP Lawmaker Seeks To Repeal Marijuana Tax Increase As Rising Costs Cause Businesses To Close
A Michigan Republican representative has filed legislation that would reverse a recently enacted tax increase on marijuana businesses. The new bill, from Rep. James DeSana (R) would repeal the 24 percent wholesale cannabis tax that was enacted as part of legislation negotiated by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) and House and Senate leaders last year. The […]
Alcohol Retailers And Wholesalers Support Bill To Keep Hemp THC Drinks Federally Legal
Several major alcohol industry participants are backing a new bill in Congress that would exempt hemp beverages from a currently scheduled ban on THC products derived from the plant while enacting new provisions to tax and regulate the cannabis drinks like alcohol. “Appropriately dosed hemp-derived beverages belong in a regulated adult beverage marketplace, not in […]
Flock Cameras and Cannabis: Police Are Tracking Trips to Legal Weed States
By Javier Hasse and Camila Berriex Wisconsin police used a nationwide camera network to reconstruct one man’s trips to Michigan, then cited those trips in the case they built to search his car for weed. In one California town, the same company’s cameras got the plate wrong in 71% of the alerts they sent to […]
Thailand Cannabis Ban 2026: Inside Bangkok’s Shops After the Medical-Only Law
This article was originally published by Cultivated and is republished here with permission. Sawadee krab! I was in Thailand this week visiting my wife’s family and I had to satisfy some professional curiosity and see what was going on in the country’s cannabis market for myself. I’ve been coming to Thailand regularly for over a […]
Senate hemp vote transcends typical partisan lines (Newsletter: August 11, 2026)
Bill to keep THC drinks federally legal like alcohol; VA marijuana PSA touts relaxation benefits; Houston cannabis ballot measure; DE sales 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 […]
Federal Judge Allows Texas Hemp THC Restrictions To Stay In Place Amid Lawsuit Challenge
“It’s a pretty big blow, and it’s recriminalizing a lot of cannabis products that have been completely legal and allowable.” By Stephen Simpson, The Texas Tribune A federal judge denied an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order sought by hemp businesses and consumers, allowing the Texas ban on THC products to continue until the […]
Opinion: Cannabis Should Be Mandatory. The ‘Normie’ World Needs a Joint More Than Anyone.
What would happen if everyone, from world leaders to stay-at-home moms, tried weed? Cannabis might function less as escapism and more as a tool for empathy, introspection, and slowing down an increasingly hyperproductive world. The real danger may not be getting high, but remaining trapped inside a version of “normality” built on stress, ego, and […]
Senate Vote On Hemp THC Products Splits Usual Partisan Coalitions
A U.S. Senate dispute over whether to implement a forthcoming ban on hemp THC products on time as scheduled or instead delay it in order to give lawmakers more time to craft regulations as an alternative to prohibition has transcended typical partisan and ideological lines. Hemp derivatives with less than 0.3 percent delta-9 THC on […]
Vernell Varnado on Panama Red, Vietnam and 60 Years of Weed
From his first joint overlooking San Francisco to “happy smoke” in Vietnam, backyard plants in Inglewood, postal routes, Amsterdam coffeeshops and today’s legal dispensaries, Vernell “Papa Snoop” Varnado has lived through nearly every era of modern American cannabis culture. Vernell Varnado remembers the date he arrived in California. “August 28, 1966,” he says. He had […]