Your Plastic Pots Are Slowly Killing Your Plants
Plastic pots are the default choice for most growers, but they may be quietly limiting your yields, stressing your plants and stunting your roots. Here is what to do instead. Growing top-quality cannabis involves time, love and care, but the pots you use play a bigger role in root development than most growers realize. This […]
‘Addiction Factory’: Study Denounces the Dangers of Overdiagnosing Habits
The term “addiction” gets thrown around quite freely in everyday language—this is nothing new. Who among us hasn’t declared themselves addicted to some habit or substance, more jokingly than seriously? Who hasn’t accused someone else of being addicted to some substance, device, or routine that we consider excessive? How many songs claim the performer is […]
Cannabis Rescheduling Could Happen Today. Don’t Call It Legalization.
The Trump administration is expected to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act as soon as today, according to reporting from Axios. This would be the most significant federal cannabis policy shift in decades. It is not legalization. Here’s what you need to know right now. As of publication, […]
Colombia to Cull Dozens of Hippos: From Pablo Escobar’s Pets to a Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Colombia is moving forward with a controversial plan to euthanize dozens of invasive hippos descended from Pablo Escobar’s private collection, as their population continues to grow uncontrollably. The decision highlights a complex clash between environmental protection, public safety, and animal welfare, with no easy solution in sight. How Did Non-Native Hippos End Up in Colombia, […]
The Extinction of Traditional Hashish
Imported hashish sustained mountain economies for centuries—until modern legalization and market economics erased it almost overnight. Traditional imported hashish—hand-rubbed Nepali charas, Lebanese blonde, Moroccan temple balls, Afghani black—has effectively vanished from North American markets. This is not a story about enforcement or interdiction. This is a story about market economics and how legalization ironically destroyed […]
Defense Wins Championships: Why Distribution (Not Branding) Will Determine Who Survives the Cannabis Shakeout
By Eric Offenberger via Cannabis Confidential 69% of cannabis consumers have no brand preference. 18% say brand influences their purchase at all. The durable competitive moat in this business is not the brand on the package. It is the licensed retail door through which that package reaches the consumer. Editor’s note: Eric Offenberger is the […]
Rosin, Raids and Risk: Spain’s New Cannabis Frontier
From home labs and deadly butane blasts to solventless rosin, police raids, and a legal gray zone, Spain is entering a more potent and more volatile phase of cannabis culture. On a cold night in late January 2025, a home lab in Espinardo (Murcia) ended in tragedy. Two young men were killed when a butane-based […]
You Went Legal. The Federal Government Rewarded You With a 70% Tax Rate.
Legal cannabis operators paid $2.24 billion in excess federal taxes in 2025. The illicit market paid zero. That is not a coincidence. That is policy. What 280E actually means for your business Would rescheduling fix this? If you run a legal cannabis business and you feel like the system is working against you, the numbers […]
Alabama Took Five Years to Open Its First Cannabis Dispensary. It’s Finally Happening.
Five years after Alabama legalized medical cannabis, the state’s first dispensary is finally opening. The commission that got it here just received one of the most critical audits in the program’s history. Alabama is about to make history. Callie’s Apothecary in Montgomery is set to serve its first patient on May 4, becoming the first […]
‘Cannabis Is a Tool, Not an Escape.’ Two Iraqi-American Brothers Built a $180 Million Brand Around That Idea.
Ali and Muha Garawi built Muha Meds from a $15,000 startup into one of cannabis’s most dominant brands — without outside money, without losing the culture and without losing each other. “A lot of people wait for the right moment or for some perfect circumstance,” says Muha Garawi, “but when you have a background like […]