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A Travis County judge temporarily blocked Texas from enforcing new hemp rules that had effectively pushed smokable THCA flower and pre-rolls off shelves. For now, the fight is back in court, and back in business. Texas tried to shut the door on smokable hemp. A judge just cracked it back open. A Travis County district judge has temporarily blocked Texas from enforcing the part of its new hemp rules that effectively banned smokable products such as THCA flower and pre-rolled joints. The ruling gives hemp operators a short-lived but very real reprieve after state regulators moved to measure “total THC”…

The European country of Georgia has a distinct landscape. The Svaneti province is evidence of this; its mountain peaks are always snow-capped, and its valleys so remote that for seven months each year, the region is completely snowbound. This is where the Svan people built defensive towers back in the 9th century that are now recognized and protected by UNESCO, this is where they preserved their pagan-inflected animist traditions and polyphonic folk music, and cultivated a relationship with cannabis so complete and integrated into every aspect of their daily life, that when Soviet authorities eliminated the crop, what they had…

A $10 million payment tied to a Florida Medicaid settlement moved through the Hope Florida Foundation, into two anti-drug nonprofits, and then into a political committee fighting marijuana legalization. Public filings also show a major funding surge at SAM Action during the same period. The full picture remains incomplete, but the overlap, timing, and money trail raise serious questions. Two months before Florida voters decided the fate of marijuana legalization, $10 million tied to a Medicaid overbilling settlement quietly resurfaced in a campaign to keep cannabis illegal. The money, drawn from a $67 million settlement with the state’s largest Medicaid…

Cannabis reform is often framed as a business or cultural issue. In reality, cannabis policy goes far beyond dispensaries; it touches the health, security, and financial stability of every American family. Decisions on cannabis policy shape who can access medicine, how communities are protected, and whether hardworking people can maintain stable livelihoods.  Photo courtesy of Chris Weiher via Unsplash Access for Patients, Consumers, and Veterans While working in dispensaries, I had the opportunity to speak with some of the nation’s 3.8 million registered medical cannabis patients finding relief for a variety of conditions. During that time, I heard countless stories…

MA marijuana bill to governor; MD veterinarians medical cannabis vote; LA medical marijuana in hospitals; CT psychedelics; VA legalization 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… 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 Marijuana Moment,…

After years of surgeries, rehab and a recovery machine built for return-to-play, the former NBA forward stopped asking whether cannabis could help and started asking harder questions about how it actually worked. Al Harrington didn’t come out of basketball looking for another celebrity weed lane. He came out of it with a body that had absorbed 16 seasons of professional punishment, a long and personal relationship with the plant, and a growing suspicion that most of the recovery industry, cannabis included, wasn’t asking serious enough questions. That’s the more interesting story. Not that a former NBA star believes in cannabis.…

DOJ funds marijuana breathalyzer research; MA cannabis restructuring vote; TX hemp lawsuit; VA gov signs psilocybin bill; MD psychedelics bill to gov 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…

B-Real, Xzibit and Demrick have spent decades around rap and weed. On “This Thing of Ours,” the Serial Killers trio sound loose, sharp and fully in command. In this conversation with High Times, B-Real and Xzibit look back on first smokes, touring in the pre-legal era, building cannabis businesses and why age still means nothing if the hunger is there. “We still can rap circles around half the motherfuckers that are doing this shit right now who are younger than us.” B-Real is filled with aplomb. The Cypress Hill frontman, now 55, has been pumping out albums and rocking stages…

DEA: marijuana rescheduling appeal still “pending”; GOP congressman: let states legalize; MO gov on hemp THC ban; ID medical cannabis resolution 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 KNOWThe Drug Enforcement Administration said in a…

After a European rollout last year, Sensi Seeds and Death Row Records are bringing five exclusive strains to the U.S., giving American home growers their first shot at running seeds developed with Death Row’s lead grower, AK. Snoop is bringing Death Row into the grow room. After launching in Europe last year, the Death Row Records collaboration with Sensi Seeds is officially landing in the U.S., giving American home growers access to five exclusive strains for the first time: B-Funk, Dough Boy, Studio Candy, Caramel Pineapple and Cereal Killa. For Snoop, the timing came down to making sure the project…