For the Culture By The Culture
New York ER visits tied to cannabis have doubled since legalization in 2021, with more than 135,000 cases logged in 2023. Prohibitionists call it a crisis, but the truth is education gaps, black-market products, and a botched rollout. Cannabis is not killing people; propaganda is. Outlaw culture says regulate, educate, and stop the panic.
Thailand has lived a century of cannabis politics in less than a decade. From medical legalization in 2018 to decriminalization in 2022, a crackdown in 2025, and now the Cannabis King himself taking power as Prime Minister, the story is wild, contradictory, and global. Outlaw culture has found its throne in Southeast Asia.
This week’s Reefer Report Card tracks chaos in Texas, Ohio, and Nebraska, plus international heat checks. Texas failed to ban hemp but criminalized vapes, Ohio towns blocked shops despite legalization, and Nebraska strangled access before patients got medicine. Switzerland moves toward retail while Thailand’s new prime minister brings cannabis reform back into focus.
Texas lawmakers failed for the third time to ban hemp THC, leaving a ten billion dollar industry and fifty thousand jobs intact. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pushed hard, but the House refused to play executioner. Abbott stuck with the regulation, and Texans mocked Patrick online as obsessed, out of touch, and defeated.
Switzerland is testing cannabis reform with a cold, calculated edge. Pilot programs in Zurich, Basel, and beyond show legal weed works without chaos. Now lawmakers are weighing a national Cannabis Products Act, banning ads, capping THC, and cutting out tourists. Is this the world’s next legalization blueprint, or a bureaucratic bust?
Chasing the highest THC number is a scam. Inflated lab results, marketing hype, and consumer obsession turned cannabis into a scoreboard. Here’s why THC percentages don’t mean what you think, and how to choose better flower, find honest growers, and trust your own high instead of the label.
