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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…

Online safety bill in Congress & marijuana biz; HI medical cannabis in healthcare facilities; Study: Marijuana a “gateway” to orgasm 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… By starting a $10 per month pledge on Patreon—or about 45 cents per issue of this newsletter—you can help us rely less on ads to cover our expenses, hire more journalists and bring you even more marijuana news.https://www.patreon.com/marijuanamoment/ TOP THINGS TO KNOWThe Internal Revenue Service said a…

When I first started writing this, I thought it would be a quick explainer of what people mean when they say they’re “growing to wash.” The more time I spent talking to hashmakers and growers who live in the ice water world, the more I realized this isn’t just a technique. It’s a different mindset. Growing to wash isn’t about fat colas, perfect bag appeal, or that one photo that makes a strain go viral. It’s about resin behavior. It’s about how trichome heads detach in cold water, how they hold up during agitation, and where they land when you…

The New York Times editorial board frames its reconsideration of marijuana legalization as a thoughtful reassessment of new evidence. But it reads less like a discovery than a justification—an attempt to explain why a policy the board once championed did not unfold as cleanly as promised, with the responsibility shifted away from regulators and toward the public. Let’s start with what is obvious. Marijuana legalization did not fail because cannabis suddenly revealed itself to be dangerous. It faltered because the United States legalized first and governed later. When access expands without coherent rules, usage rises. That is not controversial; it…