For the Culture By The Culture. ISSN: 3064-9331.
For decades, federal policy claimed cannabis had no accepted medical use while opioid prescriptions moved through the health care system by the tens of millions. Cannabis Lies Vol. 10 exposes the contradiction behind Schedule I, blocked research, medical cannabis patients, and the institutions that spent years pretending politics was medicine.
Politicians and pundits warned that legal cannabis would unleash a crime wave. The data tell a different story. From Colorado’s violent crime trends to DOJ time-series research and statewide arrest declines, the evidence shows no consistent long-term surge tied to legalization. The numbers never matched the panic.
This new investigative series begins by confronting one of cannabis policy’s most durable myths. THC percentage became a convenient shortcut for harsher laws, even though higher potency has never equaled greater danger. Vol. 1 documents how numbers replaced evidence and how courts, media, and policy still punish people for a claim that cannot survive scrutiny.
A new study claims cannabis can be measured like alcohol using weekly limits and risk tiers. This feature dismantles that framework, exposing how alcohol math distorts cannabis science, ignores human biology, and fuels modern prohibition under the guise of public health. Numbers may comfort regulators, but they do not reflect reality.
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.
The New York Times has finally admitted that legal cannabis is eating into alcohol consumption across the country, after years of fear mongering that painted the plant as a public threat. Anyone inside weed culture saw this shift long before the paper caught on. As people replace booze with a calmer, less punishing option, the old narrative collapses and the Times scrambles to catch up
