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Filed Under: Drug War, Built for Television Seven deputies entered a Kansas family’s home and searched it for more than two hours. What sent them there was stranger than anything they found. It was a chilly April morning in Leawood, Kansas, an affluent suburb of Kansas City, when seven Johnson County sheriff’s deputies converged on... Continue Reading →
Massachusetts Question 8 would close adult-use cannabis stores, cut the penalty-free possession limit back to one ounce, preserve medical cannabis, and leave consumer demand behind. Pot Culture Magazine examines the legal trap, the $1.65 billion adult-use market, polling, tax consequences, campaign money, and the question repeal supporters still have to answer.
Canada surpassed California in June legal cannabis sales, exposing a California cannabis market weakened by local retail bans, limited licensed access, tax pressure, and an illicit economy the state still has not absorbed. Pot Culture Magazine examines the numbers behind the legal weed crown and why California’s cannabis problem is access, not demand.
California’s new cannabis license split lets one dispensary separate medical cannabis treated as Schedule III from recreational cannabis that remains Schedule I. Pot Culture Magazine found DCC’s public guidance may keep both businesses tied to the same track-and-trace account, complicating the clean separation operators may need for federal registration and relief from Section 280E.
Virginia will cap hemp products at two milligrams of total THC per package on August 15 while preparing adult-use stores that can sell ten milligrams per serving and one hundred milligrams per package. Seven hemp businesses are suing, and the contradiction exposes a market boundary dressed as dose control.
Is decriminalized weed legal? Cannabis Lies Vol. 21: The Decriminalization Lie exposes how lower marijuana penalties can keep the weed war alive through tickets, fines, police contact, illegal supply, probation trouble, immigration risk, and records. Pot Culture Magazine explains why decriminalization can be better than criminalization without becoming legalization or freedom.