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Cannabis Prohibition By The Numbers: $1 Trillion Spent, 29 Million Arrests, Zero Winners

The War on Drugs is one of the most thoroughly studied failures in American policy history. We know how much it cost. We know how many people it arrested. We know what it did to families, communities, and the federal budget. The numbers are published every year by the Department of Justice, the FBI, the

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Before ‘Marijuana’ Was a Word, It Was Cannabis — The 1937 Campaign That Renamed a Plant to Criminalize It

There is a question most people never think to ask: why do we call it “marijuana”? Doctors called it cannabis for a thousand years. Prescriptions for cannabis tinctures were filled by American pharmacists from the 1840s until 1937. The Pharmacopeia of the United States listed Extractum Cannabis as an accepted medicine. Queen Victoria’s personal physician

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Florida Weed Law in 2026: What’s Legal, What’s Not, What’s Coming

Florida has the strangest cannabis laws in America. It has one of the largest medical marijuana markets in the country. It has some of the harshest recreational penalties outside of Texas. It runs a hemp-derived THC industry the legislature has spent three years trying to kill. And it rejected full recreational legalization at the ballot

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Snoop Dogg Teams Up with Sensi Seeds to Drop 5 Exclusive Cannabis Strains in the U.S.

Snoop Dogg just made one of the more interesting moves in cannabis genetics this year. His Death Row Records brand has partnered with Sensi Seeds — one of the oldest and most respected seed banks in the world — to release five exclusive strains in the American market. And honestly? This one has my attention.

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More Americans Now Use Cannabis Daily Than Drink Alcohol — And It Is Not Even Close

For the first time in American history, daily cannabis users outnumber daily alcohol drinkers. Read that again. The substance that has been demonized, criminalized, and Schedule I classified for decades now has more daily users than the one you can buy at every gas station in the country. This is not some fringe study. The

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Maryland Passes Unanimous 137-0 Vote to Protect Vets Who Recommend Cannabis for Pets

In a political climate where you cannot get 137 people to agree on what day of the week it is, Maryland’s House of Delegates just voted 137-0 to protect veterinarians who recommend cannabis for animals. Unanimous. Not a single dissenting vote. If this bill clears the Senate and gets the governor’s signature, Maryland becomes the

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Massachusetts Doubles Cannabis Possession Limits in Major Reform Win

Massachusetts just passed the “Act Modernizing Cannabis Laws” and it is one of the most significant state-level cannabis reforms we have seen in a while. The headline number: possession limits are doubling from one ounce to two ounces. But there is a lot more going on here, and not all of it is good. What

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Napoleon Invaded Russia Over Hemp — 500,000 Soldiers Died for a Plant That’s Now Illegal

Hemp Was the Oil of the 1800s Before petroleum, before coal dominated global trade, there was hemp. In the age of sail, hemp wasn’t some niche crop — it was the single most important strategic material on Earth. Every warship, every merchant vessel, every fishing boat depended on hemp rope, hemp canvas, and hemp caulking

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