For the Culture By The Culture. ISSN: 3064-9331.
A new cannabis study claims marijuana does nothing for anxiety, depression, or PTSD. The reality is far more complicated. Decades of federal restrictions, limited research access, and synthetic substitutes have shaped the science. This breakdown exposes how incomplete data and selective interpretation continue to drive misleading headlines about cannabis and mental health.
Cannabis legalization was sold as the end of the illicit market. Instead, stacked taxes, licensing limits, and local bans created price gaps that allowed underground sales to survive. From California’s cultivation tax to Illinois pricing and Michigan’s price compression, this installment of Cannabis Lie examines how policy design, not the plant, determines who wins and who stays in the shadows.
A McMaster-led analysis of two Canadian mental health surveys is getting recycled as a weed panic story, even though the design can only show association. This piece breaks down what the data can actually support, what it cannot prove, and how headlines turn survey correlations into causal claims that fuel stigma, bad policy, and lazy coverage.
Arizona lawmakers are advancing legislation that would criminalize “excessive” marijuana odor detectable across property lines. Cannabis Lie Vol. 3 examines SB 1725 and SCR 1048, the proposed misdemeanor penalties, the legal implications of State v. Sisco, and why critics argue this is a backdoor attempt to reintroduce cannabis criminalization under the banner of nuisance law.
A hundred years after the 1925 International Opium Convention first outlawed cannabis, prohibition still stands as one of the biggest policy failures in modern history. From colonial fear and racist propaganda to Nixon’s drug war and global treaties, the cost has been human lives, stolen freedom, and wasted truth. The plant survived. The lies didn’t.
A new UC San Diego study shreds the myth that regular cannabis users are impaired days after smoking. Yet cops, lawmakers, and courts keep pushing THC blood limits that have no science behind them. This isn’t public safety, it’s prohibition by another name, and it’s nailing sober drivers to the wall.
