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The AEW star gets candid about loss, love, life on the road, and the role cannabis has played in helping her stay grounded through it all. There’s nothing subtle about Marina Shafir. I learned this last week after sitting down with the former mixed martial artist turned wrestling icon, who cheerfully sparked one up while we discussed her life, her career, and of course, her love for the plant. The daughter of professional power lifter Veniamin Shafir, Marina Shafir began her journey at six years old, when her parents signed her up for Judo.   While most girls her age were…

Tom Angell is the editor of Marijuana Moment. A 25-year veteran in the cannabis and drug law reform movement, he covers the policy and politics of marijuana, psychedelics and other substances. He previously reported for Forbes, Marijuana.com and MassRoots, and was given the Hunter S. Thompson Media Award by NORML and has been named Journalist of the Year by Americans for Safe Access. As an activist, Tom founded the nonprofit Marijuana Majority and handled media relations, campaigns and lobbying for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition and Students for Sensible Drug Policy.

A new survey conducted by Pew Research examined what is considered “morally acceptable” in 25 countries. From Indonesia to Brazil, from Turkey to the Netherlands, thousands of people were asked about the moral acceptability not only of certain behaviors, but also of their fellow citizens and people from other countries. The survey reveals interesting data on the opinions of people from diverse backgrounds on, shall we say, hot topics such as divorce, abortion, alcohol, weed, porn, extramarital affairs, gambling, contraception, and homosexuality. Factors such as age, gender, religion, political affiliation, and education level were also taken into account. The study offers…

Image courtesy of Flowhub Licensed cannabis retailers are in strict compliance with their state’s minimum age requirements and nearly always deny access to underage patrons. That’s according to compliance check data provided by regulators in California, Colorado, Washington, and several other states. For example, data recently provided by Washington’s Liquor Control and Cannabis Board (LCB) finds that state-licensed cannabis retailers are more likely than alcohol proprietors to deny those without proper ID entry to their facilities. Since 2015, state regulators have conducted over 7,800 compliance checks of licensed cannabis establishments. (The LCB uses the term “compliance check” to specifically refer…

Feds not changing worker drug testing; FDA CBD policy; PA cannabis/hemp regs bill; NM psilocybin therapy funds; Study: Legal marijuana reduces crime 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…

The agency has quietly sent a CBD compliance and enforcement policy to the White House for review, a move that could bring long-overdue standards to a chaotic market while opening the door to a new layer of federal control. The FDA has finally made a real move on CBD. On March 13, 2026, the agency submitted a notice titled Cannabidiol (CBD) Products Compliance and Enforcement Policy to the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for review. The filing appears on Reginfo as a pending Executive Order 12866 review, and it is classified as a notice, not a proposed…

MA marijuana report; Federal rescheduling analysis; NH legalization & psychedelics bills blocked; DE medical cannabis in hospitals 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 of support…

What do you give someone who already has everything? That’s the question Distinctive Assets, the company responsible for gifting Oscar nominees, must have asked itself every year for the past 24 years. And yesterday, at the 98th Academy Awards ceremony, the answer appears to have been a rather redundant “everything”: a medley of luxury items, trips, and experiences for the modest sum of USD 350,000 a pop. The gift bag for the Oscar nominees includes stays in idyllic destinations, beauty treatments, designer objects, personalized prenuptial agreements, and even cannabis products. Regarding this carefully curated selection, Lash Fary, co-founder of Distinctive…

A point-by-point look at SAM’s New York report finds a familiar pattern: selective data, overstated conclusions and a weaker case than advertised.Anti-Prohibition Claims vs. EvidenceWhat the Evidence Shows Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) has released another report criticizing legal cannabis—this time focused on New York. As with past publications, the report relies heavily on selective data points and narrow timeframes to advance conclusions that do not fully reflect the broader body of available evidence. Rather than engaging in speculation or rhetoric, this response examines SAM’s claims directly—placing the cited data in proper context and comparing it against long-term trends, peer-reviewed…

Flowers & Terps and Universal Growing are joining forces in a move that blends flower credibility, cultivation culture, infrastructure and global ambition, an uncommon kind of partnership in South America’s cannabis industry. Something unusual is happening in South American cannabis, and it starts in Argentina. Flowers & Terps, a flower-driven brand with unmatched credibility in the local scene, has entered a new partnership with Universal Growing, a cannabis platform whose reach extends well beyond cultivation infrastructure. In a region where this kind of strategic alignment remains rare, the move feels like more than a business headline. It feels like a…