Trump Releases More Federal Marijuana Prisoners As DEA Considers Rescheduling Cannabis
President Donald Trump has granted clemency to two people who are serving time for federal marijuana convictions as his administration advances the process of rescheduling cannabis. The president on Thursday commuted the sentences of Jerry Haymon IV and Kevin Harden, effectively ending their sentences and putting them on the path to being free. Haymon was […]
Hawaii Banned Smokable Hemp in 2020. Stores Sold It Openly for Five Years. Then the Crackdown Began.
The state says flower, pre-rolls and vapes were already prohibited. Hemp retailers say years of limited enforcement allowed a market to develop that is now being removed. Lance Alyas says other hemp retailers in Hawaii have contacted him privately since he sued the state over its hemp rules, but few are willing to discuss the […]
New Hampshire Should Legalize Marijuana And Stop Sending Money To Neighboring States, Democrat Running For Governor Says
A New Hampshire Democratic candidate for governor says the state should legalize marijuana and stop adding revenue to the coffers of its neighbors that have enacted the reform. “We do need an additional revenue source, and there’s one sitting right out there: the legalization of cannabis,” Cinde Warmington, the sole Democrat running for her party’s […]
Massachusetts Marijuana Repeal: What Question 8 Would Do
On November 3, the state that opened New England’s first legal cannabis market decides whether to close it. What Question 8 does, who paid to put it there, and why almost nobody moved to stop it. $9.88B adult-use sales since 2018 388 active retailers, July 2025 14,524 unique registered agents, FY2025 $1.55M raised by the […]
Lawmakers turn focus to hemp THC product regulation (Newsletter: September 3, 2026)
CA gov touts marijuana revenue; Bill to legalize cannabis drive-thrus in CA shelved; Study: Cannabinoids for RLS; VA’s focus on cannabis use disorder 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 […]
Can Weed Feel Like Magic Mushrooms? Johns Hopkins Researchers Put THC to the Test
A four-person Johns Hopkins pilot study found that 25 mg of oral THC could produce altered-state profiles that qualitatively resembled those seen with 25 mg of psilocybin, particularly when consumed in a setting modeled on psychedelic research. The sample is far too small to establish cannabis as a psychedelic, but the findings add to earlier […]
Ren and Chris Webby Got High in the Woods and Made the Best Album I’ve Heard All Year
They smoke an absurd amount of weed, rap about everything from ketamine to pharmaceutical trials, and bounce from reggae to soul to drum and bass without warning. Somehow, “Asylum” is also warm, funny and the best album I’ve heard all year. I’ve listened to Asylum sober. I’ve listened to it couch-locked. I’ve listened to it […]
The Next Few Months Will Determine If The Future Of Hemp THC Products Is Regulation Or Prohibition (Op-Ed)
“The coming weeks will show whether the one-month reprieve becomes a bridge to lasting regulatory clarity or simply a brief postponement of an existential deadline.” By Matt Ginder, Greenspoon Marder For years, the hemp industry has occupied a unique and controversial space within the broader cannabis economy. What began as a niche agricultural market under […]
Trump Just Delayed the Hemp Ban. The New Deadline Is the Day Government Funding Runs Out.
He signed it Wednesday. Most of the federal hemp restrictions now take effect on December 11 instead of November 12. That date is also when the stopgap funding bill expires. One deadline did not move at all. The hemp industry got its extension. It did not get much else. On Wednesday, September 2, President Trump […]
CBGB Festival Returns to Brooklyn With a Cannabis Tie-In
Morrissey, Patti Smith, Interpol, Sex Pistols and generations of punk descend on Brooklyn September 26 as Woodstock Cannabis joins the festival and High Times gets in on the action. CBGB and Woodstock came out of very different versions of American counterculture. One grew from a cramped Bowery club where punk bands learned how loud they […]