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Houston says low-level marijuana is not a police priority, but HPD records reportedly show misdemeanor marijuana arrests jumping from 29 to 405 in the same eight-month period. As voters prepare to decide the Houston Freedom Act on November 3, the city owes the public more than a slogan about priorities.
Filed Under: Drug War, Built for Television Seven deputies entered a Kansas family’s home and searched it for more than two hours. What sent them there was stranger than anything they found. It was a chilly April morning in Leawood, Kansas, an affluent suburb of Kansas City, when seven Johnson County sheriff’s deputies converged on... Continue Reading →
Massachusetts Question 8 would close adult-use cannabis stores, cut the penalty-free possession limit back to one ounce, preserve medical cannabis, and leave consumer demand behind. Pot Culture Magazine examines the legal trap, the $1.65 billion adult-use market, polling, tax consequences, campaign money, and the question repeal supporters still have to answer.
In Cannabis Lies Vol. 24: The Forfeiture Lie, Pot Culture Magazine examines how asset forfeiture turned homes, farms, and businesses into defendants. Government records and Supreme Court cases reveal how marijuana enforcement gave law-enforcement agencies a financial interest in property taken from the people they targeted.
Can Georgia mail medical cannabis directly to registered patients? The state’s proposed delivery rule names USPS and private carriers, but federal postal requirements still demand answers about prescriptions, packaging, vaping products, and DEA registration. Pot Culture Magazine follows the legal route from Georgia’s Commission to Publication 52 and finds where the package could stop.
In Cannabis Lies Vol. 23, federal agencies turn an eight-point IQ finding into a sweeping warning about adolescent cannabis use. The number came from only 23 persistent adolescent-onset users in a New Zealand cohort. PCM returns to the original research, follows the claim into American policy, and exposes how scientific nuance became drug-war propaganda.