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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?…

Hemp dispute in Congress; TX medical marijuana expansion; KY medical cannabis update; Study: More Americans use marijuana than cigarettes 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… Your good deed for the day: donate to an independent publisher like Marijuana Moment and ensure that as many voters as possible have access to the most in-depth cannabis reporting out there.Support our work at https://www.patreon.com/marijuanamoment/ TOP THINGS TO KNOWMarijuana companies filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme…

April 18th, 1977. Hollywood, CA. There was something foul and electric in the air that Monday night at the Starwood. The kind of charge you only find when the floor’s slick with beer and the crowd reeks of leather, cigarettes, and bad choices. The volatile energy of a live wire hissing on a wet dance floor—spitting, sparking, waiting to kill whoever got too close. The room was a zoo of freaks—burnouts with thousand-yard stares, thrill junkies itching for damage, leather-clad criminals with joints glued to pierced lips, and the occasional college zombie dragging a terrified date into the pit. The…

The first thing I learned guest budtending in Brooklyn? Your feet hurt before your shift is halfway done. But the conversations make it worth it. I spent the day behind the counter at By Any Other Name (BAON) in Clinton Hill to experience budtending from the inside, where product knowledge matters, but people matter more. Photo by Matt Curry Learning the menu is just the beginning. The real work happens on the floor: listening to people, asking the right questions, and guiding them to something that fits. At BAON, almost every customer was greeted by name, like walking into a…

Entirely by chance, my father is buried just a few rows away from Levi Strauss, the man whose name is synonymous with denim and one of the most enduring clothing brands in American history. For decades, whenever I went to the cemetery just outside San Francisco, I’d quickly pause to say hello to Mr. Strauss. And I always made it a point to tell him, “Thanks for the jeans.” It was kind of our thing. Aside from a few stray words, I seldom speak out loud if I’m by myself, even when I’m hanging out with dead people. That’s why…