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OH Senate rejects changes to marijuana & hemp bill; ME recriminalization ballot measure; Mike Tyson talks cannabis with PA leaders 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…

Stephanie Shepard is the Acting Executive Director of Last Prisoner Project, where she leads the organization’s national work to free those incarcerated for cannabis offenses and to repair the lasting harms of cannabis criminalization. A powerful advocate for retroactive relief, Stephanie brings both lived experience and deep empathy to her role, turning her own story of incarceration and resilience into a driving force for change. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 15: (L-R) Bartees Strange and Joy Oladokun perform onstage at the Last Prisoner Project’s Journey to Justice Gala at Sony Hall on October 15, 2025 in New York City.…

ID medical marijuana initiative; Poll: Canadians say cannabis industry “important” to economy; AZ psilocybin trials; Cannabis smells study 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… Before you dig into today’s cannabis news, I wanted you to know you can keep this resource free and published daily by subscribing to Marijuana Moment on Patreon. We’re a small independent publication diving deep into the cannabis world and rely on readers like you to keep going. Join…

As legalization debates heat up in Washington, a different kind of summit is taking the spotlight this November — one led entirely by Indigenous voices. The Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association (ICIA) will host its fourth annual National Indigenous Cannabis Policy Summit from November 11–13 in Washington, D.C., during Native American Heritage Month. The three-day gathering will bring together tribal leaders, policymakers, business owners, healthcare advocates, and veterans to shape how sovereignty and plant medicine intersect in Indian Country. The theme this year, “Breaking Down Barriers, Beyond Borders: Indigenous Rising in Plant Medicine,” captures what organizers call a turning point for…

Cannabis use is associated with sustained reductions in analgesia and improvements in glycemic control in patients suffering from diabetic neuropathy, according to longitudinal data published in the journal Biomedicines. Israeli researchers assessed the adjunctive use of inhaled cannabis in a cohort of 50 patients suffering from treatment-resistant diabetic neuropathy. Study participants inhaled standardized, medical-grade cannabis flower (20 percent THC | 1 percent CBD) for five years. Patients reported significant decreases in their pain scores, as well reductions in their use of opioids and other prescription analgesics, over the span of the study. Specifically, participants decreased their morphine-equivalent doses by more…

Every year, the Super Bowl tries to show us what we think we look like. Flags, fireworks, familiar faces. But this year, America looks different. Bad Bunny is headlining the Super Bowl halftime show. A Puerto Rican artist, singing in Spanish, with a catalog that smells like krippy kush and coastal heat. When the country tunes in, it won’t just be watching a performance. It will be staring at its own reflection. For decades, the Super Bowl has been the nation’s most carefully curated moment of self-image: unity, patriotism, spectacle. Yet here comes Benito Martínez Ocasio, global reggaetón icon and…

NH legalization vote; KS marijuana poll; Study: Cannabis dispensary access reduces alcohol drinking; OH hemp ban pause extended; Tribe’s 1st license 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…

Religion lives in practice, not only in pews. In “Sacred Drugs,” scholar Gary Laderman maps how psychoactive substances move through ritual, identity, and meaning. The canvas is wide. Coffee and wine at the table. Cannabis in ceremony. Peyote, psilocybin, and LSD in spiritual quests. Pharmaceuticals as faith for a modern age. The question is simple. What do people do with drugs when they seek something larger than themselves? Laderman writes with steady hands. No mystic fluff. No clinical coldness. He treats drugs as part of how people build the sacred. History shows the paths. Colonial trade spreads new stimulants. Ancient…

State AGs ask Congress to recriminalize hemp; NJ gov candidate’s marijuana plans; FL medical cannabis patient gun rights case paused; OH expungements 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… Before you dig into today’s cannabis news, I wanted you to know you can keep this resource free and published daily by subscribing to Marijuana Moment on Patreon. We’re a small independent publication diving deep into the cannabis world and rely on readers like you…

For all the talk about potency, yield, and branding, the real revolution in cannabis is happening underground—in the living soil. Dig your hands into it and you’ll feel it breathing: earthworms tunneling, mycelium threading through humus, microbes trading nutrients like a microscopic marketplace. This is where the plant’s magic begins. “Living soil” isn’t a buzzword; it’s a rebellion. As the legal industry chases sterile perfection through hydroponics and chemical control, a growing movement of cultivators is going back to the dirt—not out of nostalgia, but necessity. In their eyes, saving the plant means saving the planet. What Is Living Soil?…