For the Culture By The Culture
This week’s Reefer Report Card exposes the scromiting panic, Washington’s latest hemp crackdown, and the Supreme Court inching toward a decision that could rewrite prohibition. Patients and veterans stayed stuck in outdated systems while global reform moved forward with hesitation. Panic got headlines. Weed got scapegoated. The world kept smoking anyway.
Congress slipped a hemp ban into a shutdown bill and triggered a nationwide fight that threatens farmers, small operators, veterans, and a twenty eight billion dollar market. Hemp Industry Strikes Back exposes the misinformation behind the vote and the yearlong battle now forming in courts, statehouses, and rural communities across the country.
Congress just buried hemp inside the 2025 spending bill, redefining the crop to outlaw hemp-derived THC products that built a $28 billion market. Farmers, brands, and workers face erasure without a vote or debate. Pot Culture Magazine exposes how lawmakers quietly re-criminalized hemp and why voices from Cheech & Chong to NORML say this fight is far from over.
California’s hemp industry faces a major setback as the Los Angeles Superior Court denies the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) filed by U.S. Hemp Roundtable and Cheech & Chong’s Cannabis Company. Governor Newsom’s emergency regulations remain in effect, banning hemp-derived THC products. Stakeholders express disappointment, but vow to continue advocating for fair regulation while maintaining consumer safety
