Cannabis News

Trump signed an EO to accelerate cannabis rescheduling. Headlines cheered. Small hemp businesses asked if this saves them from the November ban. It does not. Here is what actually changes and what does not.

Ohio SB 56 took effect March 20 and banned all intoxicating hemp products including beverages. The THC seltzer category was cannabis going mainstream. Alcohol interests just nuked it before most consumers tried one.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

By Matt Macosko — March 11, 2026 If you drive a truck, operate heavy equipment, fly planes, work on railroads, or hold any other DOT-regulated safety-sensitive job, listen up: the federal government just made it crystal clear that your state medical marijuana card means absolutely nothing when it comes to drug testing. The Department of

By Matt Macosko — March 11, 2026 Someone put a measure on the Massachusetts ballot to repeal marijuana legalization. The voters’ response? Not a chance. A new poll from the University of New Hampshire Survey Center shows 63% of Massachusetts voters oppose the repeal measure, with only 20% supporting it. That’s not a close call

By Matt Macosko — March 11, 2026 Florida’s shot at legal cannabis in 2026 is officially over. The state Supreme Court declined to hear the case on March 9, and there’s nowhere left to appeal. Smart & Safe Florida — the campaign that needed 880,062 valid signatures to get legalization on the ballot — came

On March 9, 2026, veterans groups testified before both the House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committees, urging lawmakers to expand access to cannabis and psychedelics to address the veteran suicide crisis. It was one of the most powerful days of testimony Congress has seen on the issue — and it could finally move the needle