Pennsylvania just put data behind why clear standards matter. After a ten-month investigation across Montgomery, Bucks, and Chester counties, prosecutors found that nearly every “Farm Bill compliant” product sold in smoke shops was, in fact, regular marijuana. According to the findings, undercover officers purchased 144 hemp-branded products from retailers across the state. More than 93%

Since August 2025, U.S. naval forces have carried out missile strikes on small boats off the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia — attacks the Trump administration claims target narcotics traffickers but which critics call a new front in political warfare. Yet the scale, targets, and rhetoric surrounding these operations suggest broader political aims, namely, the

Walk into any grow room, and it is easy to be drawn to the topic of lights, systems, nutrients, or genetics. But say the word microbiome, and suddenly the conversation shifts into big words and a bit of mystery.  Some growers swear by living soil, others prefer rock wool or coco. Yet if you’ve ever

Following the first anniversary of Hurricane Helene, I found myself driving the same winding backroads I did last October, retracing the path of destruction with a different kind of weight in my chest. What once looked like chaos, the downed trees, caved-in roofs, and mangled bridges, has now settled into a strange stillness. But for

For years, cannabis vaping has swung between convenience and waste. Consumers chased disposable ease, brands juggled endless SKUs, and the planet absorbed the cost as lithium-ion batteries piled up in landfills. Now a new shift is underway: the move toward open, interoperable, and reusable vape systems built to last rather than expire. The push is

Horrific images are reaching every corner of the world: police violence, chaos, and ever-growing rows of bodies. This is the situation in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which is currently experiencing the largest police operation in its history, with more than 100 confirmed deaths. In the early hours of Tuesday, October 28, the

Stephanie Shepard is the Acting Executive Director of Last Prisoner Project, where she leads the organization’s national work to free those incarcerated for cannabis offenses and to repair the lasting harms of cannabis criminalization. A powerful advocate for retroactive relief, Stephanie brings both lived experience and deep empathy to her role, turning her own story

As legalization debates heat up in Washington, a different kind of summit is taking the spotlight this November — one led entirely by Indigenous voices. The Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association (ICIA) will host its fourth annual National Indigenous Cannabis Policy Summit from November 11–13 in Washington, D.C., during Native American Heritage Month. The three-day gathering

Ontario’s legal cannabis market is moving more product than ever, but selling it is becoming a losing game for many shop owners. New data from the Ontario Cannabis Store’s 2024 By the Numbers report shows a record-breaking $2.15 billion in retail sales, an 11% increase from 2023, with nearly 409 million grams of tested flower

There are two stories behind why people start using cannabis: for fun, or to ease the mind. A new paper from King’s College London, published in BMJ Mental Health, says those two starting points are linked to different mental-health trajectories. But I think we need to do some debunking here. For starters, it isn’t the