DEA confirms no cannabis overdose deaths (Newsletter: October 6, 2026)
Fed marijuana tax guidance a “priority”; MA gov urges voters to keep cannabis sales legal; FDA ibogaine RFI; VA FOIA docs & cannabis use disorder oped 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 […]
Tennessee Lawmakers Push Back On Police Claims About Marijuana’s Danger And Connection To Violence
“In the state of Tennessee, marijuana is the number one drug associated with criminal activity, including violent crime.” By Adam Friedman, Tennessee Lookout Tennessee lawmakers held hearings to discuss implementing a limited medical marijuana program, but the state’s top law enforcement group remains the most vocal opposition. Representatives from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, TBI, […]
DEA Opens New Schedule III Registration Portal for Medical Cannabis Businesses
The DEA has opened a new registration process for state-licensed medical cannabis manufacturers, distributors and analytical laboratories seeking to operate under Schedule III. The move brings qualifying medical cannabis businesses into a federal controlled-substances framework while potentially offering major tax advantages by ending the Section 280E deduction ban for those businesses. Schedule III Is Coming […]
Massachusetts Question 8: How the Repeal Campaign Misuses Teen Cannabis Data
This column originally appeared in Cultivated, a cannabis industry newsletter. Subscribe here. You know the old saying: There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. That’s how Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), the anti-cannabis group pushing the campaign to repeal recreational cannabis sales in Massachusetts, operates. Take a kernel of truth, strip it of all context, […]
The Latino Community Is The Invisible Backbone Of The Cannabis Industry (Op-Ed)
“Continuing down the path of aggressive and over-punitive immigration policies poses a direct threat to the future of this industry.” By Ishaq Ali, Latino Cannabis Alliance Behind the sleek tech-adjacent branding and modern marketing of today’s cannabis industry lies a far older, unvarnished truth: cannabis is, at its heart, an agricultural product and Latinos are […]
Phoenix Rising Brings Psychedelic Culture to Nashville
This November gathering will bring psychedelic education into conversation with music, visual art, comedy, philosophy, and the culture surrounding altered states. Psychedelics Outside the Conference Room Bringing the Conversation to Music City Nashville has never had trouble bringing music, art, and a little rebellion into the same room. Psychedelics, however, remain a less public part […]
We Smoked a Joint With The Napa Boys Cast in the Apartment Where the Movie Was Written
Ten p.m. on a Glendale balcony, two floors above the theater that just screened the movie, in the apartment where it was written. Five of the cast and crew, one two-gram doink, and the first joint Mike Mitchell has smoked in twenty years. Awkwafina has already signed on for the sequel. Is It Still a […]
Marijuana Opponents And Pharma Company File Brief Asking Court To Block Trump’s Hemp CBD Medicare Coverage Plan
A coalition of anti-marijuana groups and a cannabis-focused biopharmaceutical corporation have filed a new brief in their lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s initiative to cover up to $500 worth of hemp-derived products each year for eligible Medicare patients. In May, Judge Trevor N. McFadden dismissed the challenge to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services […]
Increase In Marijuana Misuse Diagnoses Among Veterans Is More Complicated Than It Looks, VA Records Reveal (Op-Ed)
“What emerges is not simply a story of rising diagnoses, but a deeper set of concerns about how those diagnoses are defined, applied and ultimately used to shape both policy and perception.” By Nate Landau, Veterans Action Council The number of cannabis use disorder (CUD) diagnoses among veterans has risen substantially within the Department of […]
Regenerative Cannabis: Living Soil Growers in Humboldt, Oregon and Maine
A land-rooted look at the growers reshaping cannabis through living soil, ecological intelligence and regenerative cultivation. This article originally appeared in High Times’ Spring/Summer 2026 print edition. Get yours here. The story of modern cannabis cultivation often begins the same way: a garage, a single grow light and a determination to coax a plant into thriving in […]