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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…

Grenada’s reform is building regional momentum, but Bermuda’s path runs straight into a UK veto, and the clash reveals where Caribbean legalization spreads, and where it stalls. Grenada decriminalized cannabis in January and set the legal age for consumption to 21 years old nationwide. Drug policy reform advocates are now setting their sights on Bermuda to see if it will be the next Caribbean country to fully legalize. As Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory, this might be too complex a legal revision to accomplish at the local level.  Medical cannabis was introduced in 2016 in Bermuda, with possession of…

Senate psychedelics bill; Feds reject Snoop’s “Smoke Weed” trademark; MD medical marijuana for firefighters; Cannabis consumers’ politics 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…

My courageous struggle to stay high through the marijuana dark ages of the ‘80s and ‘90s. If you’re not listening to vinyl, you’re not listening, period.It’s vinyl or nothing for me. Literally. — Cannabis enthusiast, 1920sPart 1: The ‘80sPart II: The ‘90s Allan H. is a man of a certain age living in Los Angeles; a place where weed is now legal, plentiful, potent and cheap. But before reaching the promised land, he first had to pay his dues growing up bong-to-mouth in a Boston suburb when pot was very illegal, scarce and schwag-y as hell. Let us remove our…