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By Luis Fernando Campos — Educannabis On May 2nd, the Global March for Cannabis Decriminalization hit Mexico City, Medellín and Santiago at the same time. A firsthand chronicle from the street. On May 2nd, Paseo de la Reforma stopped being the avenue of political agreements and became something far more uncomfortable for those in power: a question that can no longer be ignored. 15,000 people marched from the Palacio de Bellas Artes to the Angel of Independence, while Guadalajara, Monterrey, Mérida, Tijuana, Pachuca and Toluca joined from their own streets — making this the first time in recent memory that…

PA gov slams opponent’s legalization opposition; MD gov signs psychedelics bill; TX hemp rulings; CA eases biz transition for rescheduling benefits Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Your good deed for the day: donate to an independent publisher like Marijuana Moment and ensure that as many voters as possible have access to the most in-depth cannabis reporting out there.Support our work at https://www.patreon.com/marijuanamoment/ TOP THINGS TO KNOWThe Drug Enforcement Administration filed a Federal…

The Tempe festival put Atmosphere, De La Soul and Yelawolf on the same weekend as Stephen Marley, Steel Pulse and Rebelution. The crowd treated the crossover like the most natural thing in the world. Because, historically, it is. The Reggae Rise Up Arizona festival took place April 17 to 19 in Tempe, with Rebelution, Stephen Marley, Dirty Heads, SOJA, Protoje, Slightly Stoopid and Steel Pulse among the many acts slugging it out in the blistering hot Sonoran Desert. It didn’t start off as planned, at least not for me. Flying out of Denver, we were hit with a blizzard and…

The federal paraphernalia statute that helped send Jerome Baker Designs founder Jason Harris to jail is still on the books. Twenty years later, he is relaunching in New York anyway. In 2003, John Ashcroft went on national television to announce that the federal government had just targeted the functional glass industry. Jason Harris watched it from a jail cell in Eugene, Oregon. “I was sitting in a jail cell watching the Attorney General of the United States talk about what we were doing,” he says. “That’s when it really sank in that this was bigger than just a legal issue.”…

The Last Prisoner Project co-founder and 2025 DOPE Award winner’s fight for freedom Mary Bailey stays in motion. The event organizer, activist, and managing director of Last Prisoner Project runs a relentless schedule. From picking up newly released cannabis prisoners to producing the Hawaii Cannabis Conference in Honolulu, Bailey is constantly on the go—and that’s exactly where she wants to be. Bailey has spent much of her life bringing people together around a greater purpose. A former concert promoter and community organizer, she’s always focused on creating spaces where people can gather and build something meaningful. “I’m a humanitarian at…

WH press secretary: Marijuana reform “overwhelmingly popular”; TN gov signs bill blocking medical cannabis review; IN gov directs marijuana meetings Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Your good deed for the day: donate to an independent publisher like Marijuana Moment and ensure that as many voters as possible have access to the most in-depth cannabis reporting out there.Support our work at https://www.patreon.com/marijuanamoment/ TOP THINGS TO KNOWWhite House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the…

Whitney Economics says U.S. cannabis operators carried more than $3.8 billion in delinquent receivables at the end of 2023, projected to top $4.2 billion in 2024. California’s legislature has tried twice to mandate timely vendor payments. Both bills died. A public credit-scoring platform is now filling the gap. The cannabis industry has a payment problem. According to Whitney Economics, U.S. cannabis operators carried more than $3.8 billion in delinquent receivables at the end of 2023, with projections topping $4.2 billion in 2024. That figure equals roughly 1.6 months of total legal U.S. cannabis retail revenue, sitting on the books across…

Trump surgeon general pick on marijuana; Farm Bill passes with hemp provisions; Senate psychedelics hearing; Anti-rescheduling bill advances in Congress Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Hold on, just one second before you read today’s news. Have you thought about giving some financial support to Marijuana Moment? If so, today would be a great day to contribute. We’re planning our reporting for the coming months and it would really help to know what…

Dr. Dana Lambert left hospital pharmacy in 2013 to study cannabinoid pharmacology, learned plant medicine from indigenous elders, and bet her career on the whole plant. A new Oxford-published study shows two cannabinoids most dispensary customers have never asked for, CBC and CBG, can make silver work 64 times harder against MRSA, E. coli and Pseudomonas. “I asked the cannabis plant (yes, I asked the plant itself, as recommended by the elders) to create better medicine.” That is not a sentence you expect from a woman with a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences who runs a biotech company. Dr. Dana Lambert…

DEA marijuana registrations launch; AOC on rescheduling; SC medical cannabis impact; IN gov on legalization momentum; LA marijuana penalties Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Hold on, just one second before you read today’s news. Have you thought about giving some financial support to Marijuana Moment? If so, today would be a great day to contribute. We’re planning our reporting for the coming months and it would really help to know what kind…