Category: Cannabis Regulations

House GOP’s Rescheduling Block is the Last Gasp of a Dying Drug War

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House GOP’s Rescheduling Block is the Last Gasp of a Dying Drug War. On Sept. 11, 2025, the House Appropriations Committee advanced a bill blocking DOJ funds from rescheduling cannabis. It is a prohibition theater dressed as governance, protecting alcohol, pharma, and law enforcement donors while ignoring science and public opinion. Two-thirds of Americans back legalization, yet Congress clings to 1971. This is the last gasp of a dying drug war.

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Texas Governor’s Executive Order on Hemp THC is Power, Not Protection

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Governor Greg Abbott’s Executive Order GA 56 hands Texas alcohol regulators control over hemp THC, framing it as “protection” while consolidating power. The $5 billion hemp market now faces child-resistant packaging rules, ID checks, and compliance costs that favor big players. This is not about kids or health; it is about control, consolidation, and outlaw culture under fire.

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The Cannabis Kingdom: Thailand’s Wild Ride From Prohibition to Power

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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.

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Reefer Report Card: The Week in Weed, Rated September 6, 2025 – Vol. 13

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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.

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Reefer Report Card: The Week in Weed, Rated August 23, 2025 – Vol. 11

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This week’s Reefer Report Card breaks down the chaos: Trump’s rescheduling talk stalls, Connecticut raids implode smoke shops, a Massachusetts sheriff faces federal extortion charges, Florida patients remain locked out of hotels, and a landmark court ruling restores gun rights to medical marijuana patients. Progress is rare, but this legal victory delivers a sharp reminder of what real reform looks like.

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Licensed, Then Screwed, Now Suing

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A group of licensed dispensaries is suing New York State after regulators admitted they approved stores using the wrong buffer zone measurements. Over 150 cannabis businesses, most of them social equity operators, now face relocation or shutdown. The Office of Cannabis Management’s zoning blunder has triggered legal chaos, broken trust, and exposed the fragility of New York’s so called cannabis reform.

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