New York Cannabis Cup Winners: The Brands and Products That Took Top Honors
From dialed-in flower to standout vapes, edibles, and drinks, this year’s Cannabis Cup results highlight the operators setting the pace for New York quality. Best Sativa Flower: Doobie Labs, White Widow Doobie Labs brought their flower to market in 2024 after a relentless pursuit to perfect their product. And clearly, it’s paying off. For a […]
GOP congressman celebrates cannabis’s ongoing Schedule I status (Newsletter: February 17, 2026)
VA marijuana sales legalization votes; NH psilocybin bill passes; Congressional candidates take cannabis pledge; PA marijuana tax op-ed 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… Hold on, just one […]
UK Clubs Are Shutting Down: Is Nightlife No Longer Profitable?
There’s a trend increasingly debated in electronic music publications, cultural calendars, and the endless rabbit hole on Instagram and TikTok: UK clubs, the birthplace of some of the most significant countercultural movements of recent decades, are closing one after another. According to statistics compiled by the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA), between the start of […]
Virginia House And Senate Approve Differing Marijuana Sales Legalization Bills, Setting Up Final Votes And Negotiations
Virginia’s House and Senate have given initial approved to two differing versions of bills to legalize marijuana sales in the Commonwealth—teeing up final votes and bicameral negotiations on the reform while also advancing separate legislation to provide a pathway to resentencing for people with past cannabis convictions. On Monday, the House passed a marijuana sales […]
The New York Times Isn’t Examining the Real-World Evidence on Cannabis. It’s Ignoring It.
This article by Hirsh Jain originally appeared in the Cannabis Confidential newsletter. You can subscribe here. Last week, the New York Times Editorial Board published an Op Ed titled “It’s Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem,” urging a regulatory crackdown on legal cannabis. The piece claims to be motivated by […]
Florida Marijuana Campaign Asks Supreme Court To Restore 71,000 Legalization Ballot Signatures State Officials Tossed
A Florida campaign hasn’t thrown in the towel just yet on its proposal to put marijuana legalization on the November ballot, with an appeal concerning the invalidation of about 71,000 signatures now before the state Supreme Court. While the court recently agreed to close a separate case involving a legal review into the ballot measure […]
Annoyed by Therians? That’s the Point, and Weed History Proves It
According to Google Trends, searches for “therian” have increased by 5,000%. Why? Mainly, the viral spread of their gatherings and the news coverage in mainstream media. Their bodies are human, but their identity is animal. Wait a minute: as wild as it may sound, completely insane even, we’re witnessing a genuine teensploitation phenomenon. Wherever they […]
Feds finalize Medicare CBD coverage rule, hemp industry operative says (Newsletter: February 16, 2026)
Trump pardons NFL star for marijuana; New Farm Bill hemp provisions; VA cannabis sales legalization; MD psychedelics; CO medical marijuana access 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: […]
Virginia Marijuana Sales Legalization Bill Moves To Senate Floor Vote, Teeing Up Negotiations With House
Virginia senators have advanced an amended bill to legalize recreational marijuana sales in the Commonwealth toward a floor vote while removing new criminal penalties that were recently added to the measure—setting the stage for negotiations between both chambers of the legislature as they work to enact differing versions of the reform. At a hearing before […]
The Demonization of THC | High Times
The cannabis wellness conversation is hyper-focused on cannabinoids, when it should focus on how weed is grown. As science further enters the world of weed politics, THC, the cannabinoid that contains the psychoactive properties in cannabis, has become the villain. At the beginning of the War on Drugs, cannabis as a whole was the menace, […]