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Legalization made room for brands, tax revenue, and respectability. For Frank Rogers, still serving time on a federal marijuana conspiracy case, it still hasn’t made room for freedom. The cannabis industry has transformed faster than almost anyone predicted. What once operated as an underground economy defined by secrecy, risk, and survival has evolved into a multibillion-dollar global market. Legal cannabis companies now employ tens of thousands of workers, operate technologically advanced cultivation facilities, and generate billions in annual tax revenue for state governments. Cannabis conferences fill massive convention halls across the country while investors debate expansion strategies and entrepreneurs launch…
After pulling stories out of names like Snoop Dogg and The Game in season one, Spitfire with Shirley Ju returns in April with Too $hort, Vic Mensa, Slug, Shordie Shordie and more. After a very solid first run, Spitfire with Shirley Ju is coming back for season two. Stay tuned! If you watched season one, you already get it. This isn’t a press junket in disguise or another podcast where artists recycle the same talking points. It’s short, loose, a little chaotic in the right way, and actually fun to watch. Shirley links up with people she already has a…
IN gov on marijuana; MA psychedelics votes; NY medical cannabis bill; WNBA offers to end marijuana testing; OH hemp restrictions 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… Free to read (but not free to produce)! We’re proud of our newsletter and the reporting we publish at Marijuana Moment, and we’re happy to provide it for free. But it takes a lot of work and resources to make this happen. If you value Marijuana Moment,…
The security guard glances at our IDs, then at us, then back at our IDs. I am 67. Diana is 64. We are not the typical pair walking into a cannabis dispensary on a weekday afternoon. We come carrying a folding table, boxes of product, and the determination of women who are not done building. Diana is my recent friend and now my business partner. We are not here to browse. We are here to sell. We set up near the glass display cases, unfolding the table and arranging our product across its surface. Diana smooths the corners of the…
When Jim Henson released The Dark Crystal in 1982, audiences didn’t quite know what to do with it. Best known as the creator of The Muppets, Henson delivered something darker and stranger: a fantasy film set on the sentient planet Thra, populated entirely by puppets, and driven by themes of power, decay, and spiritual imbalance. The film divided critics, but it quietly built a cult following that understood it as something more than a children’s story. Netflix’s 2019 prequel series, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, expands that world with political and philosophical clarity. Set generations before the original film,…
After seven Ohio deputies sued over the music videos Afroman made from footage of a 2022 raid on his home, a jury sided with the rapper in a case that became a strange, very online fight over speech, satire, and power. Afroman just pulled off one of the strangest legal wins in recent memory. On March 18, a jury found the rapper not liable on claims brought by seven Ohio sheriff’s deputies who sued him over the viral music videos he made using security footage from a 2022 raid on his home. The deputies had sought millions in damages. Instead,…
THC in Medicare CBD coverage plan; Marijuana bills on VA gov’s desk; IA psilocybin; Study: Cannabis safer than alcohol & tobacco 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… Before you dig into today’s cannabis news, I wanted you to know you can keep this resource free and published daily by subscribing to Marijuana Moment on Patreon. We’re a small independent publication diving deep into the cannabis world and rely on readers like you to…
Running April 14 through April 20, SF Space Walk 2026 brings growers, lounges, new flower releases and citywide cannabis culture back into focus, with a month of related programming beginning April 3. San Francisco is getting its weed week back. SF Space Walk, the city’s annual 4/20-season cannabis festival curated by journalist and author David Downs, returns this year with a weeklong lineup of flower drop parties, lounge activations and neighborhood events spread across the city from April 14 through April 20. Modeled in spirit after San Francisco Beer Week and Restaurant Week, SF Space Walk is built around a…
The first episode of Jerry Chu’s new long-form video podcast, produced with En Volá and distributed through High Times’ YouTube channel, opens with Steve DeAngelo on legacy cannabis, corporate drift, hemp wars and the legalization fight he says the industry still hasn’t finished. A new cannabis interview series just landed, and its first move was a smart one: hand the mic to Steve DeAngelo and let him go straight at the fault lines still splitting the industry apart. The debut episode of Jerry Chu and Blimburn founder Sergio Martínez’s new long-form podcast video, now live on the High Times YouTube…
Study: High marijuana taxes don’t deter use; OH cannabis/hemp referendum fails; CO marijuana tax increase; VA legalization bill head start for big biz 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… Before you dig into today’s cannabis news, I wanted you to know you can keep this resource free and published daily by subscribing to Marijuana Moment on Patreon. We’re a small independent publication diving deep into the cannabis world and rely on readers like…