Poker, Soccer, and High Times Go All In
The summer’s biggest cultural stories are not just about winning. They are about pressure, passion, and the strange magic that happens when underground energy meets the main stage. Some summers arrive with a clean storyline. Others show up holding a stack of chips, a half-burned matchbook, and a striker built like a cheat code. This […]
Berner Talks Blueberry Caviar, Mary Jane Berlin and Instinct
Berner pulled a strain back from the scrap pile, then stood on the Mary Jane Berlin floor with 80,000 people and felt something the weed business had misplaced somewhere along the way. One of the loudest strains Berner is putting his name on this year almost didn’t make the cut. It got written off in […]
Premo Brings Its Family-First Model to Dover
The independent, Black-owned New Jersey cannabis retailer is opening its second location with a focus on hospitality, community, and a retail experience built to feel less corporate and more personal. Premo is taking its next step in New Jersey cannabis with the opening of Premo Dover, the company’s second retail location and its first expansion […]
If You Can Keep a Cannabis Mother Plant Alive, You Can Bake Sourdough
Cannabis grower and edibles pioneer Maya Elisabeth makes the case that your sourdough starter is basically a mother plant. You feed her, she feeds you, and she carries your culture across generations. A warm love letter to two of life’s simplest pleasures, and why the things that bring the most joy always seem to get […]
Former Trump Homeland Security Official Pushes Congress To Keep Hemp THC Product Ban On Track, Warning Of Chinese Threat
The former head of the Department of Homeland Security under the first Trump administration is warning lawmakers against keeping hemp THC products legal, claiming that reversing a ban that is set to take effect later this year would “undermine public health” and “embolden foreign criminal actors.” Chad Wolf, who served as acting secretary of homeland […]
Anti-cannabis measure qualifies for Massachusetts ballot (Newsletter: July 10, 2026)
Confusion about VA marijuana laws; NC gov & House speaker clash on legalization; HI medical cannabis patients’ gun rights 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 is […]
Inside Hypno Seeds’ High-THC Autos
For years, growers filed autoflowers under “easy but weak.” Hypno Seeds is one of the breeders rewriting that rule, applying the same rigorous selection to its autos as its photoperiod line, and posting potency numbers to prove it. Ask a grower about autoflowers a decade ago, and the verdict rarely changed: easy to grow, not […]
The Frank Gallagher Thesis Shaped Welfare For Decades. The Data Just Demolished It.
For decades, governments assumed poor people couldn’t be trusted with unconditional cash. A wave of new evidence says they were wrong. There is a documented phenomenon in the research literature: drug-related hospitalizations spike measurably in the first days of the month, when government disability and welfare checks land. Among SSI recipients with preexisting addictions, within-hospital […]
Most cannabis consumers don’t expect full rescheduling this year, poll shows (Newsletter: July 9, 2026)
PA marijuana conviction gun ban faces lawsuit; VA housing law discriminates against cannabis; Study: Legalization reduces personal bankruptcy; TX hemp 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 […]
New Virginia Law Forces Medical Cannabis Patients To Choose Between Their Medicine And Their Housing (Op-Ed)
“Medical cannabis patients in recovery deserve the same opportunity for stable housing as any other patient managing a chronic condition with a lawfully prescribed medication.” By Jeremy Tillem, GreenhouseRVA Virginia’s recovery housing system is now forcing legal medical cannabis patients out of stable, certified homes—not because of any new public safety threat, but because a […]