We’re in the midst of a federal takeover of Washington D.C. in order to help with crime, despite the data showing it on a downward trend. This takeover includes the DEA, Customs and Border Protection, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and it seems they’re focused on some small “c” crime. In […]
Due to a long list of factors that we’ve been banging the drum about for years now, marijuana sales are having trouble across the country. The first sign of this comes from Washington state, where sales have declined for the 5th year in a row. $277 million of cannabis was sold in the first quarter […]
It seems Trump has decided that rescheduling marijuana has become popular enough for him to do it, and now we’re all just waiting for the announcement to happen. This is good news! Lots of questions remain, including what a “behind the counter” situation looks like for marijuana, but scheduling in the in the third category […]
Here’s a study that you can brag to your friends about. A study funded by the federal government analyzed brain imaging from over 37,000 participants between the ages of 44 and 81, and found marijuana users outperforming non-users on cognitive tests. Researchers hypothesized that cannabinoids and endocannabinoids in marijuana preserve “functional segregation and integration” which […]
We’ve gotten used to living inside a strange limbo in terms of marijuana reform. Legalization slowly crawls forward at a state level, but federally it’s completely stuck. And on the business side, growers are having a harder and harder time making a profit due to increased supply and high taxes. All of this is occurring […]
The DEA has put out its annual report diving into how many illicit weed operations it has busted in 2024. In total, the DEA has ended operations of 16,330 facilities. Of those, 14,904 were outdoor and 1,426 were inside. 5.3 million plants were seized in all. Some states were not included in the data, which […]
A spending bill is getting pushed through the Senate, and as always, the votes are tight. That means a sole Senator can have outsized power, as is the case typically with Rand Paul from Kentucky. Mitch McConnell, also from Kentucky, is trying to change the definition of hemp in order to close the loophole created […]
New week, new issue that marijuana can potentially help with in the body. This one is Inflammatory Bowel Disease, which isn’t much of a surprise because marijuana and CBD do a great job with helping bring down inflammation. A new study focused on IBD from Case Western Reserve University that put out a survey to […]
The word is still out on what marijuana really does to our sleep quality. According to Matthew Walker, author of the extremely popular Why We Sleep, marijuana can reduce the amount of REM sleep we experience, which has unknown long-term effects. Now, a new study is adding some nuance to the story by pointing out […]
The headline is according to a top researcher in the field who spoke at a webinar for Substances and Mental Health Services Administration, a federal agency. Ryan Vandry, a psychologist from Johns Hopkins University, pointed to numbers from California, all the way back to 1996 when the state allowed medical patients to consume marijuana. There […]
