For the Culture By The Culture
Thanksgiving creates the biggest cannabis buying spike of the year, driven by crowded airports, long drives, and the pressure of full houses. People reach for familiar flower, quiet edibles, and discreet vapes to stay steady through travel delays and family tension. This feature explores why the holiday triggers a national rush for calm and how smart choices make the season smoother.
Congress buried a hemp ban inside a federal funding deal and triggered a crisis that threatens farmers, retailers, processors, and millions of consumers nationwide. A microscopic THC limit will erase products, crush rural economies, and push people back toward alcohol or the underground. The fight now moves to the Farm Bill, where pressure can force lawmakers to fix what they broke.
Congress slipped a hemp ban into a shutdown bill and triggered a nationwide fight that threatens farmers, small operators, veterans, and a twenty eight billion dollar market. Hemp Industry Strikes Back exposes the misinformation behind the vote and the yearlong battle now forming in courts, statehouses, and rural communities across the country.
Scotland’s farmers are ready to revive hemp, but Westminster says no. This feature exposes how outdated UK drug laws cripple sustainable agriculture and block economic opportunity. From ruined leaves to crushed profits, it’s a bureaucratic war on a zero-high crop. Farmers, researchers, and rebels are pushing back with seed, science, and stubbornness.
Across Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, quiet legalization is replacing old fear. Dispensaries open, hemp farms thrive, and police turn away from small possession. Lawmakers who once preached prohibition now profit from regulation. The Bible Belt’s cannabis rebellion is alive and growing, and the South is no longer waiting for Washington to catch up.
Politicians are twisting fake “public health” science into moral theater with THC caps that make no sense. The Science of Stupid exposes how Connecticut, Minnesota, and others are rewriting chemistry to fit their fear while researchers say potency limits are nonsense. A sharp, factual takedown of junk science and political hypocrisy in the cannabis age.
