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Federal hemp ban up in Senate this week; Poll: 9/10 Americans back legalization; Congressional report on cannabis & guns; AK psychedelics 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…

The consumption of THC-dominant cannabis products is associated with sustained reductions in anxiety and depression, according to newly published data in the Journal of Affective Disorders. Investigators affiliated with the John Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore assessed the use of state-authorized medical cannabis products in a cohort of 33 participants with clinically significant anxiety or depression. Subjects in the study were naïve to cannabis. Study participants used a variety of cannabis products, including botanical and edible preparations, as needed for six months. “Initiation of THC-dominant medicinal cannabis was associated with acute reductions in anxiety and depression, and sustained…

San Francisco has its Beer Week and its Restaurant Week. Now, for the second year in a row, it also has Hash Week. Running from July 8 through July 14, SF Hash Week brings together some of California’s top extract brands for a week of drop-style events at dispensaries and lounges across the city. The series opens at Flore Dispensary in The Castro today at 4 p.m. with Errl Hill, and wraps next Monday at Urbana-Geary with Oakland Extracts. Organized by journalist and author David Downs, the event highlights a part of California’s cannabis scene that remains largely unavailable elsewhere:…

Fed judge upholds marijuana user gun ban; SEAL who killed bin Laden talks psychedelics; Study: What gives cannabis strains their smell and flavor? 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 KNOWFormer Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR),…

Known as the “Ganja Guru,” Ed Rosenthal is an international authority on cannabis horticulture, a longtime educator, activist and legalization pioneer. He was an early contributor to High Times magazine and is a professor at Oaksterdam University in Oakland, California. Rosenthal is the author of several foundational cannabis books, including the influential Marijuana Grower’s Handbook, which since 1978 has taught millions how to grow better weed. In 2002, Rosenthal was prosecuted for growing marijuana, a case that helped sway public opinion in favor of state-level medical cannabis laws. He continues to advocate for cannabis reform worldwide. ‘Everyone Should Have the…

Czech Republic marijuana & psilocybin bill passes; VA secretary: Psychedelics are “phenomenal” in treating veterans; Study on cannabis and sex 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,…

Yesterday in front of Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon, and their rock royalty friends  Sid Wilson, Slipknot’s longtime DJ and sonic architect, got down on one knee and asked Kelly Osbourne to marry him. She said yes. It happened backstage during Ozzy Osbourne’s final-ever performance with Black Sabbath, as part of the historic Back to the Beginning reunion concert in Birmingham. A farewell for one era, and the start of something new. The ring? A one-of-a-kind monster with too many diamonds to count, from world-famous celebrity jeweler Pascal Mouawad, known for making the Miss Universe and Miss USA crowns, and a close…

Nowadays, people tend to associate the cannabis plant with Mexico, and for good reason. For decades, narcos smuggled their harvests into the United States and Europe. Along with California, Mexico is known to produce some of the finest cannabis in the world. The states of Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Michoacán, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chihuahua, Sonora, and Durango—where the largest farms are located—all have climates that are perfect for cultivating cannabis: year-round temperature ranging between 70 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit, with cool, long nights and low humidity. But long before cannabis was introduced to—and became synonymous with—the New World, it was being cultivated…

They tried to silence him. YouTube deleted his channel. Blocked most of his videos. Buried him in the algorithm. And still, Dope As Yola hit 2 million. No fancy marketing. No corporate boost. Just stories, weed and community. Thomas Araujo—aka Dope As Yola—just made YouTube history, becoming the first weedtuber ever to cross the 2-million-subscriber mark. And he did it his way. Raw, unfiltered, and always real. ‘You guys have seen me grow up on camera’ Yola didn’t drop the news like a press release. He lit up his Instagram with gratitude: “The 1st Weedtuber to ever hit 2,000,000 Subscribers……

Original publication: August of 1980. Who was that sinister, torpedolke figure seen herding Richard “Cheech” Marin and Tommy Chong into a glossy, opium-black limousine on fashionable Sepulveda Boulevard? Stunned onlookers, witnessing the evident abduction, set all Tinsel Town abuzz with rumors. Was it a Mexico City publishing firm’s hit man, contracted to bump off the hypercreative twosome for appropriating the traditional Latin American photonovella format for their new Jove book, Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie, based on their new Universal movie of the same name? Was it possibly the person to whom the title of their new Warner Brothers comedy…