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Thailand went from Asia’s most progressive cannabis market to pulling the plug in just three years. What began as a billion-dollar boom is now being dismantled by new laws, political shifts, and narcotic reclassification. Farmers, shop owners, and patients face an uncertain future as the government rewrites the rules and erases the promised era.
Delays, raids, and vetoes mar a week already full of weed whiplash, but home growers in Connecticut finally get a win. From the FDA’s excuses to Tyson’s plea for federal legalization, Pot Culture Magazine cuts through the noise and grades the week’s cannabis chaos in Volume 07 of Reefer Report Card.
ICE raids tore through California’s cannabis farms, leaving a trail of arrests, trauma, and one worker dead. With helicopters, tear gas, and rubber bullets, federal agents sent a chilling message to growers and immigrant laborers alike. This hard-edged feature unpacks the chaos, the hypocrisy, and the cost of cultivating legal weed in prohibition’s shadow.
From hemp crackdowns and deadly federal raids to Pennsylvania’s legalization push and a win for veterans, this week in weed was chaos on repeat. Pot Culture Magazine breaks it down and rates the highs, lows, and outright disasters in Reefer Report Card Vol. 06.
In this exclusive interview, Chris Simunek, former Editor in Chief of High Times, reflects on the outlaw era of cannabis culture when speaking up about weed was a risk, not content. He takes us inside the raw and rebellious movement that existed before legalization and corporate cannabis.
Delta-8 THC is everywhere, from gas stations to gummies, but the legal high might not last. Pot Culture digs into the hemp loophole that birthed this billion-dollar industry, the lawsuits, the bans, and the federal crackdown looming on the horizon. If you think delta-8 is safe and legal, think again. Regulators are circling, and the market’s days are numbered.
