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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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Scientific illustration comparing THCA and Delta-9 THC molecules

THCA vs Delta-9: What Your Body Actually Does With Each — And Why Texas Just Banned One

Walk into almost any smoke shop, gas station, or hemp retailer outside of a prohibition state and you will see the same thing: jars of what looks identical to cannabis flower, packaged with a certificate of analysis, labeled as THCA flower. Federally legal under the 2018 Farm Bill. Shipped across state lines. Sold to adults.

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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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