Texas’s On-Again, Off-Again Hemp Product Ban Causes Confusion For Businesses And Consumers
“This is what we call the ‘Texas whiplash.’ These poor guys don’t know what is going to happen one day to the next. All they want is certainty and to sell their products.” By Paul Cobler, The Texas Tribune Hemp flower buds and rolled joints were piled into boxes and tucked out of public view […]
How to Hide Your High, According to People Who Have It Down to a Science
When you’re higher than you planned, paranoia is the real enemy. Five cannabis users share their best techniques for surviving the moment you cross from private to public. Let’s be honest: nothing ruins a good high faster than the sudden panic of having to interact with the world and pretend you’re sober. Your head floats […]
Amendment to let military vets get medical cannabis approved at VA passes (Newsletter: May 15, 2026)
Anti-rescheduling provision advances in Congress; Lawmaker: “a lot” of colleagues smoke marijuana; LA medical cannabis in hospitals; Psychedelics poll 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 […]
Fetterman Praises Trump’s Marijuana And Psychedelics Reform Moves
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is giving some across-the-aisle credit to President Donald Trump for his administration’s moves to federally reschedule marijuana and accelerate therapeutic access to psychedelics. “I think we could all agree [on] everything that President Trump has done about liberalizing marijuana and psychedelics and now too,” Fetterman said in an interview published by […]
New York’s Microbusinesses Could Save Legal Weed From Becoming Corporate Sludge
Small growers, tighter margins, and a fight against corporate sameness are shaping the next phase of New York cannabis. For years, cannabis legalization has carried the same promise: small operators, legacy growers, and community-rooted businesses would finally get a real shot at ownership. Then the market opens, capital floods in, and suddenly the people who […]
Fergie Baby Turned Getting Fired Into a Harlem Rap Career
After getting fired from multiple legal-sector jobs, Fergie Baby started secretly filming music videos inside Empire’s offices. Instead of firing him, the label signed him. Fergie Baby’s signing story sounds less like a polished industry tale and more like the kind of Harlem legend that gets better every time somebody tells it outside the studio […]
CBD Holds Potential As An ‘Anticancer Agent’ For Dogs, New Scientific Review Concludes
Studies “consistently show” that the non-intoxicating marijuana component CBD is a potential “anticancer agent across different cancer types”—and that effect applies to dogs as well as humans, according to a new systemic review of the scientific literature. Numerous studies have investigated how cannabis and its constituents may impact the symptoms and progression of cancer. The […]
Psychedelic Decriminalization Support Flat For Two Years, UC Berkeley Survey Finds
Voter support for psychedelic research, therapy and prescription access all surged. Decrim didn’t move. A new Berkeley survey says it out loud. The Short Version Voter support for psychedelic research jumped 14 points to 63% in two years. Support for prescription-medicine access climbed 12. Therapeutic-use legalization rose 10. Decriminalization moved a statistically insignificant one point. […]
How to Hack the ‘God Button’: Could Neuralink Replace the Cannabis Ritual?
Neuralink can simulate euphoria and stimulate the reward system on demand. But can a chip replace the ritual of rolling, lighting and getting lost in the smoke? In Arco, an animated film nominated for an Academy Award and presented worldwide at the Cannes Film Festival, the young protagonist dons a multicolored hood with a diamond […]
Burna Boy Turned Down $5 Million to Keep Smoking. Now He’s at the World Cup.
Burna Boy turned down $5 million to keep smoking. He launched his own cannabis brand while his country still criminalizes the plant. His biggest song has “I need igbo and shayo” as its hook. Now he’s singing the World Cup anthem with Shakira. Here’s who he actually is. On May 15, 2026, Burna Boy and […]