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Cannabis Lies Vol. 14 dismantles the fentanyl-laced weed rumor with New York public-health guidance, DEA fentanyl data, CDC overdose statistics, and the Connecticut case often used to inflate the panic. The article separates real fentanyl risks from unsupported cannabis scare tactics and shows how prohibition turns an opioid crisis into a marijuana myth.
Cannabis Lies Vol. 11 dismantles the claim that adult-use legalization created a runaway teen cannabis crisis. Federal and state data show a more complicated reality: youth use has not exploded, but prevention still matters, especially around vaping, high THC products, mental health, and vulnerable teens.
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.
Cannabis is often labeled addictive, but the science tells a more precise story. This piece breaks down cannabis use disorder, how it is defined, and why mild, moderate, and severe cases get flattened into one fear-driven narrative. The result is a distorted public understanding of risk that fuels policy, perception, and misinformation.
Cannabis legalization was sold as the end of the illicit market. Instead, stacked taxes, licensing limits, and local bans created price gaps that allowed underground sales to survive. From California’s cultivation tax to Illinois pricing and Michigan’s price compression, this installment of Cannabis Lie examines how policy design, not the plant, determines who wins and who stays in the shadows.
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.