For the Culture By The Culture. ISSN: 3064-9331.
Cannabis Lies Vol. 13 exposes how federal immigration policy still treats marijuana as a moral stain, even in state-legal cannabis markets. The article breaks down USCIS good moral character rules, cannabis employment risks, naturalization consequences, and the cruel gap between legal weed for citizens and federal scrutiny for noncitizens.
Louisiana says HB 568 protects schools. Critics see something older beneath the language: another expansion of marijuana enforcement through invisible school-zone boundaries. As lawmakers rebuild cannabis penalties around geography and fear, the state’s long relationship with punishment politics comes roaring back into view.
Vault Series brings an unpublished October 2011 phone interview with Freeway Ricky Ross into the record, using the tape to examine the crack era, Gary Webb, federal punishment, prison literacy, and the street lie that sold easy money while hiding the years it would steal. Ross is not absolved or buried.
The lazy stoner stereotype was never science. Cannabis can impair performance, and heavy use can cause real problems, but global data, workplace research, motivation studies, and impairment science do not support treating every cannabis user as lazy, unsafe, or broken. Cannabis Lies Vol. 12 separates real risk from recycled prohibition propaganda.
Cannabis Lies Vol. 11 dismantles the claim that adult-use legalization created a runaway teen cannabis crisis. Federal and state data show a more complicated reality: youth use has not exploded, but prevention still matters, especially around vaping, high THC products, mental health, and vulnerable teens.
Cannabis is often labeled addictive, but the science tells a more precise story. This piece breaks down cannabis use disorder, how it is defined, and why mild, moderate, and severe cases get flattened into one fear-driven narrative. The result is a distorted public understanding of risk that fuels policy, perception, and misinformation.