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Texas just passed a bill that could jail you for a gummy. House Bill 3948 criminalizes THC above 0.3 percent, targeting vapes, edibles, and Delta-8 under the guise of regulation. While the nation moves forward, Texas slams into reverse, fast and hard.
While California brags about record-setting cannabis seizures, the legal market is bleeding out. This feature rips into the state’s failed enforcement-first strategy, exposing the hypocrisy of Governor Newsom’s war on “illegal” weed while licensed shops go under. Legacy growers are sidelined, consumers get shafted, and culture is burning
A new Supreme Court ruling just cracked the door for civil RICO lawsuits in legal cannabis. If you think this won’t hit your dispensary, think again. Here’s what every grower, brand, and budtender needs to know.
Weed is getting cheaper but it’s not a win. Behind those $49 ounces and $2 prerolls is an industry bleeding out. Overproduction, bad policy, and corporate greed are killing quality, crushing independents, and leaving consumers with less than they bargained for. This isn’t a correction. It’s collapse.
New York’s $10 million vape quarantine just put the legal market in a chokehold. Brands are sidelined, dispensaries are stuck, and regulators are fumbling a rollout already on thin ice. Here’s what happened, who’s hurting, and why trust in the system keeps going up in smoke.
Colorado just lost $20 million in cannabis sales, and it’s not a fluke. From hemp loopholes to collapsing tourism, this feature investigates what’s really behind the budget cuts and how the cracks in Colorado’s cannabis economy could foreshadow a national unraveling. If the “gold standard” of legalization is struggling, what does that mean for everyone else?
