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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.
Bars in Wisconsin, South Carolina, and Minnesota are pouring THC from draft taps, replacing beer foam with cannabis fizz. With alcohol use hitting historic lows, low-dose THC drinks are reshaping nightlife rituals and exposing the hypocrisy of booze-friendly laws. The future of bar culture isn’t brewed in hops, it’s flowing from cannabis kegs.
Thailand has lived a century of cannabis politics in less than a decade. From medical legalization in 2018 to decriminalization in 2022, a crackdown in 2025, and now the Cannabis King himself taking power as Prime Minister, the story is wild, contradictory, and global. Outlaw culture has found its throne in Southeast Asia.
This week’s Reefer Report Card breaks down the chaos: Trump’s rescheduling talk stalls, Connecticut raids implode smoke shops, a Massachusetts sheriff faces federal extortion charges, Florida patients remain locked out of hotels, and a landmark court ruling restores gun rights to medical marijuana patients. Progress is rare, but this legal victory delivers a sharp reminder of what real reform looks like.
Pete Davidson’s claim that weed is “too strong” isn’t just a personal meltdown, it’s ammunition for prohibitionists eager to push THC caps and bad laws. Cannabis culture has fought for decades to kill myths and lies, and we won’t let one unstable celebrity hand our enemies the soundbite they’ve been waiting for.
A group of licensed dispensaries is suing New York State after regulators admitted they approved stores using the wrong buffer zone measurements. Over 150 cannabis businesses, most of them social equity operators, now face relocation or shutdown. The Office of Cannabis Management’s zoning blunder has triggered legal chaos, broken trust, and exposed the fragility of New York’s so called cannabis reform.
