Texas closed the hemp THCA flower loophole as of March 31. I have been shipping vape hardware to Texas since 2013 — here is what this does to farmers, shops, consumers, and why alcohol lobbies were behind it.
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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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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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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 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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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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In Japan, they call it shinrin-yoku — forest bathing. It is not exercise. It is not hiking. It is the simple act of breathing forest air, and it has been prescribed by Japanese physicians since the 1980s as preventive medicine. Decades of peer-reviewed research now confirm what traditional cultures understood intuitively: the volatile organic compounds
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In 1937, the U.S. government made hemp illegal and sent Moses Baca to prison for 18 months over a quarter ounce. Five years later, that same government produced a propaganda film begging American farmers to grow hemp — then denied the film ever existed for 47 years.
In 2016, while Arizona voters were deciding on Proposition 205 — a ballot measure to legalize recreational cannabis — a pharmaceutical company called Insys Therapeutics quietly donated $500,000 to the opposition campaign. That half-million dollars made Insys the single largest donor fighting to keep weed illegal in Arizona. Their sole product? Subsys, a sublingual fentanyl
On August 13, 1941, Henry Ford stood in front of a crowd in Dearborn, Michigan, and took a sledgehammer to the trunk panel of his newest prototype. The panel didn’t dent. It barely flexed. The crowd went silent. That car was made from hemp. The Soybean Car That Was Really a Hemp Car Ford’s “Soybean
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Linalool smells like lavender because it is lavender — or rather, it is the molecule that gives lavender its scent. It is also found in over 200 plant species, including basil, birch, coriander, and cannabis. For centuries, lavender has been used as a folk remedy for anxiety, insomnia, and nervous conditions. Modern pharmacology has spent
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The Invisible Hands Behind the Hemp Trade When we talk about hemp’s golden age — the era when it powered the world’s navies, shaped geopolitics, and fueled global trade — we usually talk about empires, admirals, and treaties. What we don’t talk about enough is who actually grew and processed the hemp. The answer, on
