Cannabis businesses intervene in anti-rescheduling lawsuit (Newsletter: July 2, 2026)
Congressional psychedelics bill; DE lawmakers override gov’s marijuana zoning veto; GA medical cannabis expansion; AZ marijuana penalty bill dies 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 […]
Why Summer Is Better With Friends
Fernway’s Squad Goals campaign is built on a simple premise: the good life is better shared. From World Cup watch parties to backyard cookouts, the best summer moments are the ones we spend together. Fernway starts from a simple belief: cannabis makes the good life even better. However you define the good life, the brand […]
The New American Dispensary Is Becoming More Than a Store
Today’s leading dispensaries are moving beyond the sales counter to become community spaces, educational hubs, and cultural destinations. Missouri’s SWADE Cannabis offers a working example. For most of the legal era, the dispensary has been built around a single moment: the sale. A customer walked in knowing roughly what they wanted, talked to a budtender, […]
Hawaii Officials Are Facing A Federal Lawsuit Over Newly Enforced Hemp Product Restrictions
“All of this stuff would be taken off the shelves. This is almost 90 percent of our product line. It will probably destroy our business.” By Phillip Smith, The American Hemp Monitor Hawaii will crack down on non-compliant hemp and CBD retailers beginning Wednesday as enforcement of a state law passed last year requiring them […]
The DEA Blocked the Cameras at This Cannabis Hearing. Here’s What They Didn’t Want You to See.
The DEA invited only opponents to its rescheduling hearing, turned reform supporters away and refused to livestream it. Then the government’s own witnesses stood up and made the case that cannabis has real medical value and is safer than substances sold at every gas station. Here is what has been happening inside a room the […]
Muck Sticky Has Worn Pajamas For 24 Years. He Says Weed And Comfort Are The Last Real Freedom.
Muck Sticky, the Memphis rapper who has lived in pajamas for 24 years, opens up about weed, creativity and radical self-acceptance. As he prepares to launch his own cannabis brand, the independent artist reflects on comfort and resisting a culture obsessed with productivity. In a world seemingly governed by algorithmic cynicism, the mind-numbing laconicism of […]
Pennsylvania Dems step up cannabis legalization push (Newsletter: July 1, 2026)
DEA rescheduling hearing day 2; Military psychedelics amendment advances in Congress; THC drinks & restaurants poll; Study: Cannabis for back pain 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… Before […]
Nebraska Attorney General Signs Off On Medical Marijuana Rules Despite Personal Opposition
“The medical cannabis regulations do not clearly violate the state or federal Constitutions on their face.” By Zach Wendling, Nebraska Examiner Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers (R) on Tuesday signed off on the constitutionality of regulations from the state Medical Cannabis Commission, a key step toward final approval. Hilgers, who has opposed the creation of […]
Why the UK’s Next Prime Minister Should Legalise Cannabis
With Britain weeks away from a new Prime Minister, former UK parliamentary adviser James Matthewson argues that the incoming leader, widely expected to be Labour’s Andy Burnham, has a rare chance to be bold: end the war on weed and pour the proceeds into teen mental health. The grass isn’t always greener on the other […]
Marijuana Opponents Attack Government Analysis Behind Rescheduling Recommendation On Second Day Of DEA Hearing
Lawyers for marijuana reform opponents that are participating in a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) hearing on the Trump administration’s cannabis rescheduling proposal put significant focus on the second day of the proceedings on pressing a government witness about recently adopted changes to an analysis used to determine whether drugs have accepted medical value. A separate […]