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DEA cannabis rules are colliding with state programs built around second chances. In Mississippi, two dispensary workers with old controlled-substance felony records became a federal compliance problem when their employer sought Schedule III registration. Pot Culture Magazine follows the waiver rules, the social-equity contradiction, and the question legalization still has not answered: when does a drug-war record stop controlling a legal cannabis job?
Massachusetts Question 8 would end recreational cannabis sales, repeal adult home-grow protections, and leave limited possession legal. Pot Culture Magazine follows the weed, the jobs, the tax revenue, and the consumers caught in the middle, asking the question the repeal campaign cannot escape: if Massachusetts kills the legal retail market, who supplies the cannabis that adults may still possess?
A Michigan cannabis grower won nearly $31.8 million after a jury found its buyer breached a state-legal marijuana supply agreement. Then the Sixth Circuit erased the judgment, ruling that federal courts cannot enforce a contract requiring conduct federal law still treats as illegal.
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 →
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.