Category: Misinformation

THE PRODUCT THEY NEVER TEST

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Hospitals increasingly diagnose Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome without testing the cannabis products involved. This investigation examines how cartridges, edibles, and other cannabis materials are excluded from medical evaluation, despite known contamination risks, leaving patients with diagnoses based on symptoms and self reported use rather than verified evidence.

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THE POTENCY MIRAGE

A cannabis testing scene showing a glass jar of buds labeled THC 27.5 percent beside a handheld scanner displaying a lower reading of 18.9 percent. The headline “The Potency Mirage” appears above in bold yellow type under a red “Policy Theater” banner. The Pot Culture Magazine logo is in the lower right corner with the web address PotCultureMagazine.com at the bottom.

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.

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Reefer Report Card Vol. 26: Nov 29-Dec 06

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This week’s Reefer Report Card exposes the scromiting panic, Washington’s latest hemp crackdown, and the Supreme Court inching toward a decision that could rewrite prohibition. Patients and veterans stayed stuck in outdated systems while global reform moved forward with hesitation. Panic got headlines. Weed got scapegoated. The world kept smoking anyway.

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THE SCROMITING SCAM

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American newsrooms turned a simple overuse incident into a nationwide scare. Scromiting headlines exploded overnight, burying real CHS facts under panic and misinformation. Pot Culture breaks down what actually happened, why the media keeps confusing overuse with syndrome, and how fear travels faster than truth when cannabis is involved.

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BLACKLIGHT: Iconography of the Gentrified Stoner

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A Blacklight investigation into how celebrity cannabis branding has warped the meaning of icon and overshadowed the activists, caregivers, and families who carried the plant through criminalization. This feature exposes the cultural amnesia that elevates market-friendly faces while burying the movement’s real architects and the sacrifices that made modern legalization possible.

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THE NEW YORK POST Vs. THE FACTS

A Pot Culture Magazine feature graphic showing a dimly lit newsroom with rows of monitors and a stack of documents on a desk in the foreground. Bold white text reads “THE NY POST VS. THE FACTS.” Below it, smaller white text states that the Post claims New York is facing a wave of cannabis poisoned teens, but the data says otherwise. Pot Culture Magazine branding appears in the lower right corner, with the website and ©2025PotCultureMagazine/ArtDept along the bottom.

The New York Post claims New York is facing a wave of cannabis poisoned teenagers, but the data says otherwise. Teen cannabis use is falling, most exposure calls involve toddlers, and the Post inflated and misrepresented key numbers to manufacture panic. This feature dismantles the fear narrative with verifiable facts, national trends, and hard receipts.

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