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WI gov pushes Congress on hemp; VA marijuana sales bills advance; CT psychedelics; WA 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… 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, invest in…
Long before his fifth Oscar nomination, Ethan Hawke’s first acting award came in the form of a bong. Not a plaque. Not a medal. A glass bong from High Times. While promoting Blue Moon, Richard Linklater’s new film in which Hawke plays Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart, the actor paused to thank his longtime collaborator and dropped a memory that says more about his career than any awards-season talking point. “My first acting award I ever won was a bong from High Times Magazine,” Hawke told The Hollywood Reporter, recalling his performance in Tape, which was recognized as the “best stoned…
What started in 2022 as a “highdea” is now a weekly run club and wellness circle—one that’s making cannabis culture look a lot more like consistency than couch-lock. On The 606, the city’s elevated trail that cuts a clean line through the neighborhoods, the energy before a run usually sounds the same—footsteps, laughter, the soft shuffle of people finding their pace. But on the weekend of 4/20, there’s an added note in the air: a visible, unbothered refusal to keep cannabis culture tucked away. That was the scene in April 2025, when Runners High Chicago hosted its third annual 420…
Hemp THC ban pro & con arguments to Congress; MD medical marijuana employment protections; VA cannabis resentencing votes 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 dollars…
For a decade, cannabis brands expanded like tech startups. They were fast and loud, maybe overestimated, perhaps a bit unsustainable. New states opened, investors flooded in, and expansion became the metric of legitimacy. Jetty Extracts didn’t follow that script. While many California operators rushed to plant flags across the country, Jetty stayed home. The brand focused on tightening operations, refining manufacturing, and building internal controls before stepping outside its home state. In an industry where growth is often confused with strength, restraint can look radical. According to co-founder and Chief Product Officer Nate Ferguson, that restraint was intentional. Building California…
RFK talks psychedelics; VA marijuana sales votes; LA legalization pilot program; PA cannabis poll; MD psychedelics 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, invest in our success…
Once a federal marijuana defendant facing a stacked sentence, Angelos now works the same levers that crushed him, arguing rescheduling could change who gets charged, how hard, and what happens next. When President Trump began seriously entertaining the idea of moving marijuana to Schedule III, Weldon Angelos was not watching from the sidelines. He was on the phone. Angelos describes Trump’s executive order from last December as the result of a coordinated campaign that unfolded across different rooms and registers at once — athletes, industry executives and personal appeals to the president. He says he urged Mike Tyson, who has…
By Jorge Cervantes in collaboration with Innexo BV & Stefan Meyer A “No-Veg” method flips plants straight to 12/12, trading smaller individual yields for higher annual output and a dramatic jump in top-shelf buds. I have spent the better part of forty years walking through cannabis gardens. From the hidden guerrilla patches of the Emerald Triangle to the sun-drenched greenhouses of Southern Spain, and finally, to the high-tech, clinically sterile indoor facilities of the Netherlands and North America. In all that time, across every continent and every era of prohibition and legalization, there has been one constant, one Golden Rule…
Three shows, three eras: how cannabis went from a political third rail to a punchline, then to a plausible policy position. In 2001, a career-ending scandal for a top government official was not leaking classified information or committing financial corruption. It was speaking neutrally about marijuana. Or at least, that’s how The West Wing depicted it. The West Wing, which began airing in 1999, showcased the Bartlet administration handling issues that were politically, socially, and economically relevant. In Season 2, Episode 15 (“Ellie”), the show explores marijuana, its legalization, and the potential health effects. The episode begins when an online…
This article originally appeared on the High Adam newsletter. Subscribe here. For 2026, the California Cannabis Awards adds a new category for the backyard farmer. Here’s what you need to know. Are you a Golden State ganja green thumb with a knack for growing backyard bud? If so, the California Cannabis Awards is giving you a chance to prove your pot prowess thanks to a newly added Home Grow – Flower competition. According to the organization’s February 23 announcement, the new competition category is “designed to recognize cannabis flower cultivated by California residents for personal, non-commercial use,” and will be…