Ohio, Texas And South Carolina Are All Tightening Hemp Rules, Just Not The Same Way
Ohio’s new law is already in effect. South Carolina’s Senate went with a narrow regulate-it-don’t-ban-it model. Texas is about to wipe smokable hemp off shelves while squeezing the rest with tougher rules and steeper fees. Same plant, same loophole, three very different state responses. The hemp fight did not move in one direction this month. […]
South Carolina Senate Approves Bill To Keep Hemp THC Drinks And Gummies Legal, With Some Restrictions
Compromise was needed “to make sure that we had the votes to keep this out of the hands of children… That’s the number one thing.” By Adrian Ashford, South Carolina Daily Gazette Legislation limiting South Carolina sales of intoxicating hemp products to adults over 21 passed the Senate on Thursday in a compromise that took […]
Two Economies, One Plant: South Africa’s Cannabis Divide
The road into the Mzintlava River Valley is not on any investment map. It bends past a school with a broken bell, past two spaza shops, and then the tar gives up. What follows is dust, goats, and small fields that look untidy to anyone trained by brochures. This is where South Africa’s cannabis story […]
A Rare South American Cannabis Power Move Is Taking Shape In Argentina
Flowers & Terps and Universal Growing are joining forces in a move that blends flower credibility, cultivation culture, infrastructure and global ambition, an uncommon kind of partnership in South America’s cannabis industry. Something unusual is happening in South American cannabis, and it starts in Argentina. Flowers & Terps, a flower-driven brand with unmatched credibility in […]
South Dakota Bill To Eliminate Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee Fails In Senate Panel
The House had already passed the legislation, which could be revived by the full Senate. By Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight The committee that oversees South Dakota’s medical marijuana program should continue its work for at least another year, a panel of state senators decided. But the full Senate could have the final say. A bill that […]
The New York Times Calls It a ‘Marijuana Problem.’ ‘South America’s WSJ’ Calls It an Economy. That’s the Tell
While U.S. legacy outlets recycle moral panic, South America’s business establishment is already treating cannabis like a real market, and demanding rules that actually work. In the United States, cannabis is stuck in a weird loop. No real federal program that matches reality. Fifty different rulebooks pretending they’re a country. A hemp market that keeps […]
South Carolina Police Leaders Push Lawmakers To Ban Hemp Products Instead Of Regulating Them
“Simply using hemp-derived cannabinoid in place of THC or marijuana is merely a distinction without a real difference.” By Adrian Ashford, South Carolina Daily Gazette South Carolina law enforcement chiefs are urging legislators to reject a freshman lawmaker’s proposal to regulate, not ban, intoxicating hemp products for people like his son, who uses them to […]
Cannabis, Recovery, and Life in South Dakota
I was fourteen when I first found cannabis. And High Times. The two didn’t just make me feel better—they saved me. Back then, I didn’t have words for what I was feeling: a restless, chaotic mind, a chest tight with panic I couldn’t name. Cannabis slowed everything down just enough for me to breathe, to […]