Category: Government Regulation

Canada’s Crackdown on Native Cannabis

A Pot Culture Magazine feature image showing two Ontario Provincial Police vehicles with flashing red and blue lights driving down a dirt road beside a cannabis field on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. A red Haudenosaunee warrior flag flies on the right side of the image. The sky is overcast and the road cuts through lush rows of cannabis plants. Large yellow headline text reads “CANADA’S CRACKDOWN ON NATIVE CANNABIS,” with a subline stating “Tyendinaga raids expose legalization’s blind spot on Indigenous rights.” Pot Culture Magazine branding and the ©2025PotCultureMagazine/ArtDept credit appear across the bottom.

Canada seized more than two hundred million dollars in cannabis from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, but the deeper story is sovereignty. Indigenous growers say their laws and economic rights were ignored while Canada enforced a system built without them. The raid exposes a legalization model that favors corporations and provinces while sidelining First Nations.

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Hemp Industry Strikes Back

A protest scene outside the U.S. Capitol at golden hour, with a close-up of a hand holding a large black and yellow sign that reads “HEMP INDUSTRY STRIKES BACK.” Beside it, a tall hemp plant is held above the crowd, its leaves lit dramatically by the sun. Protesters fill the background, carrying signs opposing a hemp ban. The Pot Culture Magazine logo and ©2025PotCultureMagazine/ArtDept appear along the bottom.

Congress slipped a hemp ban into a shutdown bill and triggered a nationwide fight that threatens farmers, small operators, veterans, and a twenty eight billion dollar market. Hemp Industry Strikes Back exposes the misinformation behind the vote and the yearlong battle now forming in courts, statehouses, and rural communities across the country.

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The War on Scottish Hemp

A Pot Culture Magazine feature image titled “The War on Scottish Hemp.” The headline appears in bold yellow and white text over a photograph of a farmer’s hands inspecting a tall hemp plant in a lush green field. The Scottish Highlands and a cloudy evening sky form the background. Branding along the bottom reads “PotCultureMagazine.com | ©2025PotCultureMagazine/ArtDept.

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 This feature exposes how outdated UK drug laws cripple sustainable agriculture and block economic opportunity.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.

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Singapore Still Hangs for Cannabis

Feature image for Singapore Still Hangs for Cannabis by Pot Culture Magazine. A noose hangs in front of the Singapore flag, which has been subtly modified with a green cannabis leaf beneath its crescent and stars. The stark composition symbolizes the country’s continued use of capital punishment for cannabis offenses. Pot Culture Magazine logo and copyright ©2025PotCultureMagazine/ArtDept appear at the bottom.

Singapore still executes people for cannabis under its decades-old Misuse of Drugs Act. Officials call it deterrence. Critics call it fear. With public approval topping 90 percent, reformers face a government that equates mercy with weakness. This is a nation that kills for control and calls it safety.

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Tax First, Ask Later: Michigan’s Weed War

Governor Gretchen Whitmer stands before the Michigan state seal and an American flag, wearing a red leather jacket and a serious expression. The text reads: “Policy Fiction Tax First, Ask Later. Michigan’s Weed War.” The image critiques Michigan’s cannabis taxation and policy stance. Pot Culture Magazine branding, website, and ©2025PotCultureMagazine/ArtDept appear along the bottom.

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.

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The Michigan Weed Shakedown

An image depicting a political and economic critique of Michigan’s cannabis tax policy. In the foreground, a brass balance scale weighs stacks of coins against bundles of cash beside a glass jar filled with cannabis buds. The Michigan State Capitol building looms in the background under cloudy skies. Large white and orange text reads: “Policy Failure in Real Time — The Michigan Weed Shakedown: How a 24% tax turned legalization into extortion.” At the bottom right, the Pot Culture Magazine logo features a green cannabis leaf and the words “For the Culture, By the Culture,” along with the website PotCultureMagazine.com. ©2025PotCultureMagazine/ArtDept.

Michigan’s new 24% wholesale cannabis tax has ignited outrage across the state. Pitched as a fix for crumbling roads, the law instead cripples small growers and pushes the market back underground. With lawsuits already filed and jobs on the line, the move exposes how easily lawmakers can rewrite voter-approved legalization into a state-sponsored shakedown for profit.

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