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The percentage of young people consuming cannabis products has decreased dramatically over the better part of the past two decades, according to an analysis of youth survey data published in the journal Addictive Behaviors. Researchers affiliated with the University of Connecticut assessed data from the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey. They analyzed over 254,000 high-school students’ responses during the years 1991 to 2023. Consistent with other studies, they identified long-term declines in the prevalence of marijuana use by teens. “Overall results show that rates of lifetime cannabis use rose from 1991, peaked in 1999 (47.3 percent), and subsequently decreased, with…
VA marijuana sales legalization votes; NH psilocybin bill passes; Congressional candidates take cannabis pledge; PA marijuana tax 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… 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…
From dialed-in flower to standout vapes, edibles, and drinks, this year’s Cannabis Cup results highlight the operators setting the pace for New York quality. Best Sativa Flower: Doobie Labs, White Widow Doobie Labs brought their flower to market in 2024 after a relentless pursuit to perfect their product. And clearly, it’s paying off. For a newcomer to take home Best Sativa Flower is a serious statement. White Widow is a legendary ’90s strain. This high-potency, sativa-dominant hybrid delivers peppery pine and citrus notes with a balanced, flavorful smoke and the kind of uplifting effects that made it a classic in…
Trump pardons NFL star for marijuana; New Farm Bill hemp provisions; VA cannabis sales legalization; MD psychedelics; CO medical marijuana access 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…
This article by Hirsh Jain originally appeared in the Cannabis Confidential newsletter. You can subscribe here. Last week, the New York Times Editorial Board published an Op Ed titled “It’s Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem,” urging a regulatory crackdown on legal cannabis. The piece claims to be motivated by the belief that “a society should be willing to examine the real-world impact of any major policy change” and to “respond to new facts.” But the Op-Ed does precisely the opposite. It is built on factual errors, selective omissions, and unsupported assertions that misrepresent the…
The cannabis wellness conversation is hyper-focused on cannabinoids, when it should focus on how weed is grown. As science further enters the world of weed politics, THC, the cannabinoid that contains the psychoactive properties in cannabis, has become the villain. At the beginning of the War on Drugs, cannabis as a whole was the menace, a scourge that could divide America, a racist tool used to target immigrants and Black and brown communities. But in today’s charged political climate, it’s not cannabis as a whole that’s the perceived danger; it’s THC. And, when it comes to the wellness conversation around…
Never before in human history have we been exposed to so many sensory stimuli at once, and never, ever, have we felt so little. We live perpetually overloaded with screens, multitasking, demands for constant performance, and hyperproductivity. Thus, the mind remains permanently switched on, without the possibility of taking restorative breaks. And from so much noise and so little substance, a kind of permanent mental chatter arises that pushes us toward a progressive disconnection from our most basic emotions. Current culture encourages and demands speed, performance, a violent “gimme now, gimme more.” But feeling, on the other hand, implies time,…
A Field Manual for the True Believer. An inversion in the spirit of Dr. Strangelove: confronting hard truths head-on by following bad logic to its inevitable conclusion. Every year, the same parade of boardroom lifers, policy priests, donor-approved experts, and cannabis industry elites shuffle onto stages across California like it’s a loyalty program they can’t quit. And they all deliver the same breathless speech for the umpteenth time: What can we do to save the cannabis industry? Save it? Brother, have you looked around? This thing is coughing up dust. It’s limping through the desert with a knife in its…
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“The scourge of all Soviet Russia is cocaine,” Tatiana Kuranina, a Russian noblewoman, wrote sometime after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. “Although Russia is reduced to a state of complete impoverishment and needs decisively everything – there is cocaine, and there is enough for everyone…” Many in the West today imagine the Soviet Union as it’s portrayed in Call of Duty games: a land of prisons and labor camps, where every citizen marched to the tune of the Party and its all-seeing security state. In truth, there were many aspects of Soviet life that the Soviet government failed to control,…