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Massachusetts faces a new THC accuracy fight after a law enforcement group claims dispensary labels inflate potency. Testing limits, natural variance, and oversight failures collide as the state struggles to rebuild trust in a system built on imperfect numbers. This feature exposes how the market turned THC into gospel and why the truth was never that simple.
Ohio rewrites its legalization law before it even starts, Wisconsin offers fake reform, and Massachusetts keeps spinning its regulatory wheels. The FDA pretends to act on CBD while the European Union adds new walls around its market. Reefer Report Card Vol. 20 grades another week of confusion, contradiction, and missed opportunities in global cannabis reform.
Michigan’s new 24 percent wholesale tax lit up outrage across the cannabis industry, while New York regulators faced a courtroom map lesson and Massachusetts tried to reboot its commission. Pennsylvania found compassion in hospital reform, and Germany slowed progress with new rules. Reefer Report Card Vol. 18 grades a week of taxes, lawsuits, and bureaucratic burnout.
Every year, millions of pounds of perfectly good cannabis are destroyed under “safety” rules that do little but feed landfills. From testing failures to expiration laws, the system burns medicine while patients go without. Dead Flowers: The Waste of American Weed follows the regulators, the waste, and the absurd logic behind America’s most profitable destruction ritual.
Massachusetts health officials report a surge in pediatric cannabis ER visits, but the real culprit is the unregulated hemp gray market. Candy-lookalike edibles and weak enforcement fuel fear while licensed operators take the blame. Pot Culture Magazine cuts through the panic to expose how prohibitionist loopholes and corporate spin create the danger.
