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Cannabis is legal across much of America. So why is one of legalization’s longest-standing activists still facing jail time in Idaho? Cannabis legalization has transformed the United States. Dispensaries operate openly, billion-dollar companies trade publicly, and politicians routinely celebrate the end of prohibition. Yet for Dana Beal, one of the longest-standing figures in the American marijuana legalization movement, the war never really ended. Beal, 78, a New York–based activist and co-founder of the Global Marijuana March, is facing jail time in Idaho following a marijuana trafficking arrest that began with a traffic stop in January 2024. While cannabis is legal…

Congressional psychedelics bill; VA marijuana resentencing; DE Senate overrides cannabis veto; FL vets medical marijuana discount; Craft cannabis oped 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… BREAKING: Journalism is often consumed for free, but costs money to produce! While this newsletter is proudly sent without cost to you, our ability to send it each day depends on the financial support of readers who can afford to give it. So if you’ve got a few…

For decades, cannabis has been treated as a public menace while alcohol and tobacco were folded into daily life, policy frameworks and corporate profit models. A newly published scientific analysis out of Canada once again flips that logic on its head. A peer-reviewed study published January 27 in the Journal of Psychopharmacology finds that alcohol and tobacco cause far greater overall harm to both individuals and society than cannabis. The research evaluates not just health risks, but the broader social damage associated with drug use, including injury, economic cost and harm to others. The paper, titled Drug harms in Canada:…

For much of the last decade, Texas has occupied a contradictory place in the U.S. cannabis landscape. It maintains one of the nation’s most restrictive medical cannabis programs and enforces strict marijuana prohibition, yet quietly became a national powerhouse in hemp production after the 2018 Farm Bill. The result is a fragmented system defined by legal gray areas, regulatory tension, and growing distance between statute and reality.   That tension is now coming to a head.   From January 29–31, policymakers, prosecutors, scientists and public health experts will convene in front of a sold-out audience at the University of Texas at Austin for the Texas Cannabis Policy Conference. The timing is notable. Many…

New Canadian research shows medical cannabis can help with pain, mood and quality of life, but outcomes vary widely by product, dose and patient. As cannabis policy debates intensify across North America, a newly published Canadian study offers something that has become rare in the medical marijuana conversation: perspective. The study, published online January 29 in the Canadian Journal of Pain, followed adult patients authorized to use medical cannabis across Canada for 24 weeks, tracking outcomes related to chronic pain, sleep, anxiety, depression and overall quality of life. The results show consistent, measurable improvements across multiple categories. They also show…

GOP congressman wants AZ legalization rollback; VA cannabis sales vote; HI marijuana report; UT decrim; MD psychedelics; THC drinks at major arena 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 KNOWRep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) told Marijuana…

Arizona Republicans want to kill legal weed sales. Trump’s rescheduling move just made that a lot harder. In the strange new politics of cannabis in 2026, the movement to roll back legalized marijuana in Arizona is running into a major federal curveball. The same GOP coalition pushing a ballot initiative to dismantle the state’s adult-use marketplace now has to contend with an unexpected force on the right: Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at accelerating the federal rescheduling of marijuana. At the center of the controversy is a ballot measure that would end commercial adult-use cannabis sales in Arizona while leaving…

In recent years, a new trend has swept the culinary world and made its way into kitchens around the world: yes, we’re talking about the air fryer. At first, many people viewed it with apprehension… What do you mean you can fry without oil and only with air? What kind of sorcery is this? However, over time, more and more people saw with their own eyes that yes, the air fryer works, and it brings many benefits. One of them, perhaps the least known, is that you can also use the air fryer to decarboxylate cannabis. Wait a minute, decarboxylate?…

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By Zack Huffman via Cultivated News Driving the news: After a two-year drought, this year could finally see more states legalize. 2024 broke a six-year streak of at least one state legalizing every year. And last year was also a dud for legalization, but momentum persists even as the federal government continues to stall on rescheduling. Here is a rundown of various efforts for state-level legalization in a shrinking pool of prohibitionist holdouts. Good shot, but no guarantees  Virginia: Virginia technically legalized cannabis in 2021, but after four years of obstruction, the Commonwealth finally has a governor that is willing…