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Guest Op-Ed by Gretchen Gailey, President of Project Champion If there is one lesson the cannabis industry should have learned by now, it’s this: Washington does not run on urgency. It runs on process, power, and patience. For more than a decade, advocates, entrepreneurs, veterans, patients, investors, and policymakers have been told that federal cannabis reform is just around the corner. One more election. One more committee vote. One more White House signal. And yet, even with the President’s directive to reschedule cannabis to Schedule III, the industry remains in limbo. Businesses are still largely locked out of banking. Patients…

In a chandelier-lit ballroom at Berlin’s Hotel Adlon Kempinski, a quiet revolution is unfolding. Dozens of investors lean in as founders from Zurich, Barcelona, Lisbon and Warsaw pitch a room full of international cannabis investors and the CEOs of the EU’s next cannabis giants. This is a Talman House event, and it’s where European cannabis capital finds its match. After years of uneven reform, Europe’s cannabis market is finally entering its investment era. As North America wrestles with oversupply and political fatigue, European operators are drawing global attention to their pharmaceutical precision, export potential and growing regulatory stability. From Albania…

Those who consume cannabis-infused beverages are more likely to reduce their alcohol intake, according to data published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. Researchers affiliated with SUNY (State University of New York) Buffalo assessed trends in alcohol consumption among a cohort of individuals age 18 or older who acknowledged having used cannabis products during the past year. They determined that respondents who consumed cannabis beverages “were more likely to report substituting cannabis for alcohol than non-users. They also reported fewer weekly alcoholic drinks after starting cannabis beverages compared to before, and binge drank less frequently.” The study’s authors concluded: “Findings…

Presidential elections in Costa Rica are scheduled for February 1, 2026, and we’re looking at quite a broad landscape. Amid fragmentation and indecision, Costa Ricans will have to choose from a vast array of candidates. Some of them have publicly stated their positions on cannabis legalization. Since 2022, Law 10.113 has been in effect, regulating weed exclusively for medicinal and therapeutic purposes. This law also authorizes the food and industrial use of hemp. However, recreational or adult use remains illegal in the country, and the Narcotics Law still criminalizes personal possession. Now, following recent attempts to legalize and regulate recreational…

Rand Paul & Joe Rogan talk hemp; NJ interstate marijuana commerce bill; NH psilocybin hearing; Poll: Canadian legalization support grows 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,…

A bipartisan bill would push the federal hemp THC ban to 2028, buying time for farmers, brewers, and lawmakers to replace prohibition with regulation. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is moving to slow down the federal hemp THC ban that Congress quietly enacted during last year’s government shutdown, giving the industry more time to adjust and reopening a debate that many thought was settled. On January 12, Rep. Jim Baird of Indiana introduced the Hemp Planting Predictability Act, a short bill that would delay implementation of the new federal hemp definition from one year to three. The change would push…

Fed official: Teen marijuana access down as more states legalize; NJ psilocybin bill to gov; IN legalization poll; Cannabis existential threat op-ed 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. Jim Baird (R-IN) and four…

A teenager in California died from an overdose after spending months asking ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot, about drug use and so-called “safe” dosages. He had friends. He studied psychology. He liked video games. According to his mother, the clearest signs of anxiety and depression didn’t show up in his social life, but they appeared in his conversations with the AI. Once again, alarm bells are ringing, unsettling society, the tech world, medicine, and the courts alike. OpenAI estimates that more than 1 million of ChatGPT’s 800 million weekly users express suicidal thoughts. Does this phenomenon say something about artificial…

ME anti-marijuana campaign accused of “lying” to voters; New states could legalize in 2026; Study on rap music videos and cannabis 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…

By December 2025, medical cannabis prescriptions in Germany had increased by more than 3,300% compared with March 2024, the final month before cannabis was removed from the country’s narcotics law and reclassified as a non-narcotic medication. The shift simplified prescribing, opened the door wider for telemedical care and helped normalize cannabis as a regulated treatment. That same shift also triggered a familiar reaction. Public claims of “misuse” started circulating. Draft policy ideas began pointing toward restrictions on telemedicine and distribution. A new Cannabis Barometer: 2025 Annual Review from Bloomwell Group argues those fears do not match the evidence and that…