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Pew’s May 26, 2026 report says only 11 percent of U.S. adults want marijuana illegal in all cases. Pot Culture Magazine examines what that means for cannabis legalization, federal marijuana law, employment testing, immigration policy, banking barriers, and the drug war machinery still protecting prohibition after the public moved on.
Cannabis Lies Vol. 13 exposes how federal immigration policy still treats marijuana as a moral stain, even in state-legal cannabis markets. The article breaks down USCIS good moral character rules, cannabis employment risks, naturalization consequences, and the cruel gap between legal weed for citizens and federal scrutiny for noncitizens.
France keeps extending medical cannabis access while politically resisting broader legalization. Pot Culture Magazine examines the country’s cautious framework, frozen patient access, regulatory delays, and the growing contradiction between public rhetoric and the reality of cannabis reform already unfolding inside France.
Louisiana says HB 568 protects schools. Critics see something older beneath the language: another expansion of marijuana enforcement through invisible school-zone boundaries. As lawmakers rebuild cannabis penalties around geography and fear, the state’s long relationship with punishment politics comes roaring back into view.
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Vault Series brings an unpublished October 2011 phone interview with Freeway Ricky Ross into the record, using the tape to examine the crack era, Gary Webb, federal punishment, prison literacy, and the street lie that sold easy money while hiding the years it would steal. Ross is not absolved or buried.