For the Culture By The Culture
As cannabis reform accelerates worldwide, the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board continues warning that decades old drug treaties still apply. This feature examines the INCB’s actual authority, the limits of treaty enforcement, and why global legalization is advancing despite institutional resistance rooted in prohibition era frameworks.
Reefer Report Card Vol. 31 examines a week where cannabis reform quietly retreated. Ballot rollbacks gained traction, federal action stalled, and patients remained unprotected. Legal weed stayed popular, but oversight weakened and accountability slipped. Another week where legalization survived while governance failed
Texas regulators are moving to eliminate smokable cannabis without passing a law. After lawmakers failed to ban THC products, state agencies rewrote testing standards and imposed crushing fees that push legal cannabis out of reach. The result is prohibition by process, driven by selective morality, political pressure, and regulatory maneuvering.
Reefer Report Card Vol. 29 tracks a week where cannabis demand held steady while governance cracked. Ballot initiatives threatened regulated markets, federal reform stalled behind messaging, and patients absorbed the fallout. Legal weed stayed popular. Oversight became optional. Another week where legalization survived but accountability did not.
Ohio voters approved legalization, but lawmakers followed with Senate Bill 56, a measure that tightens control through enforcement expansion, licensing caps, and market restrictions. This piece breaks down what the law actually changes, who benefits from the new structure, and how state authority grows while legal access narrows after the vote.
Massachusetts faces a new THC accuracy fight after a law enforcement group claims dispensary labels inflate potency. Testing limits, natural variance, and oversight failures collide as the state struggles to rebuild trust in a system built on imperfect numbers. This feature exposes how the market turned THC into gospel and why the truth was never that simple.
