For the Culture By The Culture
Scotland’s farmers are ready to revive hemp, but Westminster says no. This feature exposes how outdated UK drug laws cripple sustainable agriculture and block economic opportunity. From ruined leaves to crushed profits, it’s a bureaucratic war on a zero-high crop. Farmers, researchers, and rebels are pushing back with seed, science, and stubbornness.
Across Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, quiet legalization is replacing old fear. Dispensaries open, hemp farms thrive, and police turn away from small possession. Lawmakers who once preached prohibition now profit from regulation. The Bible Belt’s cannabis rebellion is alive and growing, and the South is no longer waiting for Washington to catch up.
Each October, the same urban legend returns: strangers handing out weed candy. NORML and UVA Health say it’s pure fiction. No one’s giving away $60 gummies, but accidental ingestion is real, driven by bad packaging and lazy storage. The true Halloween threat isn’t monsters or dealers, it’s fear and ignorance disguised as public safety.
The Omaha Tribe legalized cannabis and created its own governing body to regulate cultivation, licensing, and sales. Meanwhile, Nebraska still criminalizes flower. This is a story about sovereignty, survival, and state resistance. The border is more than a line. It is a trap. Cross it with weed and you're no longer legal.
The San Francisco Chronicle’s new article warns that cannabis is dangerous for older adults, but the science says otherwise. Studies show benefits for pain, sleep, and muscle spasticity when used responsibly. The real risk comes from misinformation, fear, and the unregulated hemp market, not from seniors using cannabis with care.
Michigan’s new 24 percent wholesale cannabis tax is being sold as a road repair plan but looks more like a cash grab. Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s law faces a constitutional challenge from the Michigan Cannabis Industry Association, while NORML’s Paul Armentano warns that greedy taxation drives consumers back underground and destroys legal markets that voters fought to build. The weed war is back this time in a budget.
