White House Pushes Congress To Keep Hemp CBD Products Legal By Amending Broad Ban That’s Set To Take Effect Later This Year
The White House is making it clear that President Donald Trump wants Congress to take action to amend a law that threatens to federally recriminalize hemp-derived full-spectrum CBD products in November. The administration “welcomes the opportunity to work with the Congress to, at a minimum, update the statutory definition of final hemp-derived cannabinoid products to […]
Amendments To Keep Hemp THC Products Federally Legal Won’t Get Votes After Congressional Committee Blocks Them
A powerful congressional committee is blocking amendments to prevent a scheduled federal ban on hemp THC products from taking effect in November. The House Rules Committee on Monday determined that several separate proposals will not be allowed to advance to floor votes. One proposal, from Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), would have kept many hemp products […]
Virginia’s Governor Says Legal Weed Was Moving Too Fast. The States That Moved Fast Are Doing Fine.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger explained her cannabis veto: she didn’t want to rush like other states. The problem is that the states that rushed are doing fine, and her veto just froze a $50 million expansion and hundreds of jobs. The states that “rushed” are fine $50 million and hundreds of jobs, on pause A day […]
Why Legal Cannabis Doesn’t Belong Next to Gambling and Porn
This article was originally published by Cultivated and is republished here with permission. Cannabis legalization carries lots of positives Cannabis isn’t the new Big Tobacco Legal cannabis may carry risks. But treating it like gambling or AI pornography flattens the debate and ignores the public health, economic and regulatory benefits legalization can create. There seems […]
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 […]
Legal Weed Left the Bong Makers Behind
The federal paraphernalia statute that helped send Jerome Baker Designs founder Jason Harris to jail is still on the books. Twenty years later, he is relaunching in New York anyway. In 2003, John Ashcroft went on national television to announce that the federal government had just targeted the functional glass industry. Jason Harris watched it […]
Legal Weed, Unequal Justice: Mary Bailey’s Fight to Free Cannabis Prisoners
The Last Prisoner Project co-founder and 2025 DOPE Award winner’s fight for freedom Mary Bailey stays in motion. The event organizer, activist, and managing director of Last Prisoner Project runs a relentless schedule. From picking up newly released cannabis prisoners to producing the Hawaii Cannabis Conference in Honolulu, Bailey is constantly on the go—and that’s […]
Massachusetts Could Become The First State To Repeal Legal Weed. The Community Is Fighting Back.
A November ballot question backed by Smart Approaches to Marijuana would shut down the state’s $1.6 billion adult-use market, end home grow and put an estimated 27,000 jobs at risk. Massachusetts would be the first state in the country to undo a regulated cannabis program through a voter referendum. Massachusetts could become the first state […]
DEA Clarifies That The Synthetic Cannabis Compound HHC Is Federally Banned, And Doesn’t Count As Legal Hemp
Federal drug officials are clarifying that a cannabinoid produced synthetically from components of the cannabis plant is federally illegal. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said that while hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) has already been considered a Schedule I illegal substance under the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA), the agency is now giving the compound its own unique […]
The Drug That Nearly Destroyed Me Was Legal
In Indiana, the drugs that nearly destroyed my life were perfectly legal. Doctors administered them through IV lines while I lay in hospital beds: morphine, fentanyl, Dilaudid. I wasn’t chasing a high. I was a patient, and I trusted the system. Between 2014 and 2019, my life became a revolving door of hospital admissions. I […]