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ONDCP director Sara Carter Bailey told Newsmax this week that marijuana is “still illegal” after the April 23 rescheduling order. The line is doing a lot of work. Schedule III moved state-licensed medical cannabis into the same federal category as ketamine and Tylenol with codeine. What’s still illegal in the strict sense is everything outside the medical lane, and the drug czar’s interview pointed exactly to the next enforcement targets: hemp THC, “high-potency” products and illicit grows. “It’s still illegal,” Sara Carter Bailey told Newsmax this week. The headlines treated the line as a clarification. It was closer to a…

For Mother’s Day, Maya Elisabeth asked mothers across the cannabis community to talk about the plant in their own words. What came back was honest, funny and completely their own. Motherhood made me who I am. So did cannabis. I’ve found the two go hand in hand in ways I didn’t expect: stress relief, staying present, sore muscles at the end of a long day. It became my safe choice, the reason I don’t need any other altering habits. And it’s part of why I wanted to hear how other women in this community talk about the same thing. For…

In 1994, Melanie Dreher published a study showing that cannabis-exposed babies thrived. The medical establishment went silent. Thirty years later, she’s still trying to finish the work — and pregnant women are still being jailed. More than 25 years ago, a landmark study quietly challenged one of modern medicine’s most deeply rooted assumptions: Cannabis use during pregnancy is inherently harmful. The findings were striking. The response was silence. And today, while cannabis laws liberalize across much of the world, pregnant women and mothers remain among the most vulnerable to punishment and stigma. “It’s very disappointing,” says Melanie Dreher, the nurse-anthropologist…

Laganja Estranja’s first cannabis line drops May 16 at SWAY Dispensary in Chicago. The launch comes a decade after her first attempt to break into the industry, in partnership with Illinois’ first queer and Black-owned recreational dispensary, cultivated by two-time Cannabis Cup winner nuEra Cannabis. The whole package lands just in time for Pride Month. Laganja Estranja has been trying to launch a cannabis brand for ten years. This is the one that finally landed. The drag artist, choreographer and longtime cannabis advocate is releasing her first official cannabis line on May 16, 2026, in partnership with Chicago’s SWAY Dispensary.…

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Terpenes are chemistry and neurobiology working together. Artificial flavors are something else entirely. Here’s what the difference actually means for your cannabis experience. In cannabis culture, it’s often said that cannabinoids are the “engine,” while terpenes are the “steering wheel.” In fact, as a phrase attributed to scientist and neurologist Ethan Russo goes: “Terpenes are modulators of experience.” So terpenes are much more than simple aromatic molecules. But what is the difference between terpenes and artificial flavors? Why do some “flavors” hack the brain? Are we losing the true essence of the plant in the pursuit of a, shall we…

ID medical marijuana ballot sigs; AZ legalization rollback stalls; FL gov candidates on cannabis; Target expands hemp THC drink sales; LA penalties 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…

Triploid cannabis has been around for years. Outdoor growers are increasingly putting it to the test, and the results are complicated. For outdoor growers, pollen is the enemy. One rogue male, one stressed hermaphrodite at the wrong moment, and an entire field seeds up. Premium sinsemilla becomes something you can barely move. The industry has tried feminized seeds, aggressive male elimination, tight protocols. The threat never fully disappears. Triploid cannabis offers a different answer: a plant so genetically scrambled it can barely reproduce at all. That’s the idea driving a quiet but accelerating movement in cannabis genetics. Companies like Humboldt…

GOP senator on marijuana banking; PA cannabis regulatory vote; SC medical marijuana access; NC cannabis ballot bill; Groups push VA gov on legal sales 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 KNOWProhibitionist organization Smart Approaches…

Mary Jane Berlin marks its 10th anniversary edition June 11-14 at Messe Berlin, with 75,000+ attendees and 500+ exhibitors expected. RAW founder and High Times publisher Josh Kesselman headlines a live podcast on opening day. High Times editor in chief Javier Hasse will be on the ground. Germany legalized recreational cannabis in April 2024. Two years later, the country has the largest legal cannabis market in Europe, a swelling network of cultivation associations and the post-legalization commercial buildout that the rest of the continent is watching closely. The industry’s main meeting point is one weekend in Berlin in June. Mary…