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California’s cannabis industry is on fire, both literally and politically. Toxic pesticide smoke blankets Siskiyou County while federal ICE raids leave a farmworker dead in what is supposed to be a legal market. With soaring cannabis taxes and suffocating regulations driving growers to the black market, Sacramento faces a breaking point. Can legalization survive, or is this the end of California’s cannabis dream?
From hemp crackdowns and deadly federal raids to Pennsylvania’s legalization push and a win for veterans, this week in weed was chaos on repeat. Pot Culture Magazine breaks it down and rates the highs, lows, and outright disasters in Reefer Report Card Vol. 06.
Despite cannabis legalization in several states, enforcement remains harsh, with users frequently facing fines and arrests for public consumption. Hypocrisy abounds as alcohol consumption is often overlooked. Racial disparities persist in arrests, and the festival atmosphere heavily penalizes cannabis use, leaving users feeling tricked rather than free.
The VA finally let doctors talk to veterans about cannabis, but they still can’t prescribe it. After decades of silence, this small policy shift feels too little and too late. Our feature exposes how bureaucratic cowardice and federal hypocrisy keep veterans from accessing the medicine they fought for.
Connecticut is cracking down on smoke shops, raiding stores and seizing federally legal hemp products. Lawmakers claim it’s about public safety, but small businesses say it’s a power grab for corporate cannabis. Our Dot Com feature exposes how this “hemp witch hunt” is reshaping legalization into prohibition 2.0
The South loves bourbon and drive-through daiquiris, but weed? Still treated like the devil’s work. We dig into the Bible Belt’s quiet cannabis reforms and the hypocrisy keeping millions criminalized
