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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.
Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome is real, but the latest “scromiting” panic outruns the CDC data behind it. Pot Culture Magazine examines a new CHS diagnosis code, 199,565 emergency visits, a combined 15-to-24 age group, and the difference between a documented medical burden and an alarmist headline that turns hospital records into a teen weed emergency.
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.
Does legalization expunge cannabis records? Pot Culture Magazine examines Cannabis Lies Vol. 20: The Expungement Lie, why legal weed does not automatically erase old marijuana arrests or convictions, how expungement rules differ by state, and why background checks, court files, and federal limits still follow people long after the market opens.