Category: U.S. Cannabis Legislation and Policy

America Still Arrests for Weed, Just Pretends It Doesn’t

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Despite legalization in half the country, over 204,000 Americans were arrested for marijuana in 2024, most for possession. The FBI, ACLU, and DOJ data expose how outdated laws, racial disparities, and political hypocrisy keep the drug war alive under new names. America claims reform, yet still profits from punishment. The hustle just wears a badge now.

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Reefer Report Card: The Week in Weed, Rated-October 11 2025 – Vol. 18

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Michigan’s new 24 percent wholesale tax lit up outrage across the cannabis industry, while New York regulators faced a courtroom map lesson and Massachusetts tried to reboot its commission. Pennsylvania found compassion in hospital reform, and Germany slowed progress with new rules. Reefer Report Card Vol. 18 grades a week of taxes, lawsuits, and bureaucratic burnout.

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The DEA’s October Surprise

A DEA special agent stands facing a chain-link fence with a large banner that reads “Red Ribbon Week.” The text over the image says “The DEA’s October Surprise.” The scene has a muted, official tone under cloudy skies, symbolizing law enforcement’s ongoing anti-drug campaigns. The Pot Culture Magazine logo and website address appear at the bottom, along with the copyright ©2025PotCultureMagazine/ArtDept.

Every October, the machine cranks up the same show. New slogans, old fear. This year’s “October surprise” is quieter Red Ribbon Week, a vape bust, and a shrinking drug war pretending to roar. Pot Culture Magazine cuts through the noise and exposes how America’s favorite crusade still feeds itself on panic and nostalgia.

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House GOP’s Rescheduling Block is the Last Gasp of a Dying Drug War

An illustrated poster-style image featuring a bold political message. At the center, a raised fist grips a cannabis leaf against the backdrop of the U.S. Capitol dome and a stylized American flag. Large block letters read: “House GOP’s Rescheduling Block is the Last Gasp of a Dying Drug War.” The bottom includes Pot Culture Magazine’s logo with a cannabis leaf emblem and the website PotCultureMagazine.com

House GOP’s Rescheduling Block is the Last Gasp of a Dying Drug War. On Sept. 11, 2025, the House Appropriations Committee advanced a bill blocking DOJ funds from rescheduling cannabis. It is a prohibition theater dressed as governance, protecting alcohol, pharma, and law enforcement donors while ignoring science and public opinion. Two-thirds of Americans back legalization, yet Congress clings to 1971. This is the last gasp of a dying drug war.

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Guns For Everyone Except You

A graphic featuring a black handgun silhouette against an orange background with faint American flag stripes. A large green cannabis leaf overlays the gun. Above, bold white text reads: “LEGAL RIGHTS” and “GUNS FOR EVERYONE EXCEPT YOU.” At the bottom, the text “POT CULTURE MAGAZINE” is displayed.

A federal appeals court cracks the wall between cannabis medicine and the Second Amendment, ruling that patients shouldn’t be stripped of their gun rights. This pivotal decision signals the beginning of the end for decades of federal hypocrisy and outdated prohibition logic.

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Reefer Report Card: The Week in Weed, Rated August 16, 2025 – Vol. 10

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The latest Reefer Report Card grades a week of cannabis chaos: DEA raids licensed shops in Nevada and Wisconsin, Massachusetts regulators flunk an audit, New York zoning chaos wrecks dispensaries, and Michigan police bust a $10 million grow. Federal promises of rescheduling remain empty, leaving the war on weed alive and regrouping

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