Convenience Store Industry Says Congress Should Regulate Hemp THC Products Instead Of Banning Them
Advocates for convenience stores are celebrating a recently enacted delay in the effective date of a federal ban on hemp THC products, saying the move provides an opportunity to create regulations as an alternative to prohibition. Convenience stores, they say, are an ideal place to continue to sell hemp products under any new rules that […]
Dead Cats, Drag Clowns, and the Weirdest Awards in Indie Film
Dominatrix Mara’s Cocoon, winner of the festival’s WTF Award, finds sensuality and psychological tension in water, nylon stockings, thin latex, flowers, and two women engaged in what the filmmaker describes as a dynamic metamorphosis. Mara wanted the film to challenge the usual media treatment of kink and BDSM. Rather than framing intensity through aggression or […]
Trump releases federal cannabis prisoners (Newsletter: September 7, 2026)
GOP lawmakers talk hemp regulations; NH legalization push; TX Dem campaigns on marijuana; NE medical cannabis laws upheld 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… Your good deed for […]
Cannabis Banking Is Still Broken. This Credit Union Built Around It.
In April 2026, the federal government moved medical cannabis to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act, the most significant change to marijuana’s federal status in more than 50 years. Over the summer, a Drug Enforcement Administration hearing took up the larger question of whether adult-use cannabis should follow, wrapping in mid-July with a recommendation […]
Rhode Island Hemp Farmer Wants Attorney General Candidates To Answer These Questions (Op-Ed)
“Rhode Island has already chosen to regulate hemp rather than prohibit it. Our next attorney general should explain whether they intend to defend that decision.” By Mike Simpson, Lovewell Farms via Rhode Island Current Last October, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha (D) joined 38 other state attorneys general in signing a letter urging Congress […]
Texas Delta-8 Felony: One Gummy vs. an Ounce of Weed
A single four-gram delta-8 gummy can now expose its owner to a felony bracket that runs to twenty years, because Texas counts the whole edible toward its weight. An ounce of marijuana is still a misdemeanor. And the delta-9 gummies still on the shelf survive on a technicality that federal law is about to erase. […]
Shore House Canna’s Fall Fest Returns to New Jersey
The free West Cape May gathering returns to Rea’s Farm on September 26 with New Jersey cannabis brands, longtime consumers, first-timers, and a live High Times broadcast. In West Cape May, NJ, on a stretch of farmland that’s been worked by the same family for over 100 years, something wonderful happens every fall: Shore House […]
Idaho Lawmaker Urges Voters To Approve Ballot Measure Restricting Their Own Ability To Legalize Marijuana
An Idaho lawmaker is urging voters to approve a measure on the November ballot that would restrict their own ability to legalize marijuana in the future. Sen. C. Scott Grow (R), who sponsored the proposed constitutional amendment to make it so that only lawmakers could legalize cannabis or other controlled substances, said the measure is […]
Cannabis Capital Is Coming Back. What Happened to the Founders Last Time.
Berner has a word for the guys who show up with a term sheet and no feel for the plant. He calls them the Chads — like many others in the cannabis community do. A new wave of them is coming, and the last wave ate a generation of founders. On the morning of June […]
North Carolina Officials Weigh Marijuana And Hemp Policies As Federal Law Remains In Flux
“We are not in any way convinced that we are definitely moving to be a marijuana-legal state. It could happen, but it may not.” By Clayton Henkel, NC Newsline When members of the North Carolina House and Senate reconvene in November, they will be faced with having to decide how to regulate intoxicating hemp products. […]