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Dispatches from the soft underbelly of being high. I cry more often than I’d like to admit when I’m stoned, which is inconvenient because I’m stoned more often than I’d like to admit. There’s no heaving, bumbling, or swelling movie score. It’s quieter than that. A small internal weather event. The air shifts. Gravity turns hostile. Music starts it most nights. It’s treacherous. It sneaks past the bouncers. I’ll be fine—functional, sarcastic, engaged—then a melody hooks something behind my sternum and pulls the string. A harmony leans too hard on a raw nerve it doesn’t know it’s touching. And suddenly…
Produced with Matca Films, the new High Times Travel Series opens with two very different stops: a discreet cannabis club culture shaped by island rhythm and neighborhood respect in Mallorca, and a fast-growing medical cannabis infrastructure boom just outside Lisbon. High Times has a new travel series on YouTube, and the smart thing about it is that it does not treat cannabis culture like a souvenir. Produced with Matca Films, the High Times Travel Series is starting from a simple but useful premise: if you really want to understand cannabis somewhere, you have to look beyond the laws and the…
Directed by JT Barnett, the new High Times series Texas Cannabis Chronicles opens inside one of the fastest-moving and most politically contested cannabis markets in America, where farmers, veterans, patients and small operators are bracing for a crackdown they say could wipe out an entire industry. The biggest cannabis story in America right now is not happening in California, and High Times is making that case in a loud way. This week, we dropped Episode 1 of Texas Cannabis Chronicles, a new documentary series directed by filmmaker JT Barnett that throws itself straight into one of the most chaotic and…
Feds list immigrants who possessed marijuana as “worst of the worst”; ID medical cannabis ballot; OH hemp THC drink push; LA 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… 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…
A new ProPublica investigation found that Colorado banned chemically converted intoxicating hemp on paper, but weak testing rules, enforcement gaps and industry carve-outs still allowed questionable products to reach consumers through the country’s oldest legal marijuana market. Colorado did not fail because legal weed was a bad idea. Colorado failed because regulators left the door open and bad actors walked right through it. That is the real takeaway from a new investigation by ProPublica and The Denver Gazette, which found that despite Colorado’s ban on chemically converted intoxicating hemp products, some of those products still made their way into the…
Federal bill could peg marijuana users as gang members; CA gov on legalization; AZ cannabis odor vote; DE medical use in hospitals; WA 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… *Rattling the tip jar* Got a few dollars you can spare to help Marijuana Moment pay our writers, keep our website running and grow into the kind of robust news organization the fast-paced world of drug policy deserves?Join us for $25/month and be…
As a federal ban nears, alcohol industry power players are pushing to keep hemp THC beverages alive through a regulatory system they already know well. Big Alcohol has spent years watching hemp THC beverages eat into its territory. Now that a federal crackdown is on the horizon, the industry is not asking Congress to leave the category alone. It is backing a version of regulation that would bring hemp THC drinks closer to its own system. As reported by IgniteIt’s A.J. Herrington, the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America has launched a campaign calling for intoxicating hemp beverages to be…
Senate veterans psychedelics bill; MS medical marijuana bills to gov; Alcohol group push hemp ban delay; PA legalization dispute; TX THCA restrictions 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…
Whitney Economics projects legal cannabis sales will resume growing in 2026 after a rough 2025. But falling prices, weaker state performance and a more mature market raise a harder question for consumers and small operators alike: what kind of industry is this growth actually building? A new forecast says legal weed is expected to start growing again in 2026. That sounds like good news, and on paper, it is. Whitney Economics projects the U.S. legal cannabis market will reach $30.5 billion next year, up 4.9% from 2025, after what Beau Whitney describes as the first year-over-year decline in the history…
UT gov signs psychedelics bill; Canadian Conservative leader’s marijuana stance; CO cannabis biz compliance checks; GA medical marijuana expansion 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, invest…