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 […]
Cannabis Prohibition By The Numbers: $1 Trillion Spent, 29 Million Arrests, Zero Winners Read More »
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
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 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.
Snoop Dogg Teams Up with Sensi Seeds to Drop 5 Exclusive Cannabis Strains in the U.S. Read More »
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
More Americans Now Use Cannabis Daily Than Drink Alcohol — And It Is Not Even Close Read More »
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
Napoleon Invaded Russia Over Hemp — 500,000 Soldiers Died for a Plant That’s Now Illegal Read More »
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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