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A major new cannabis violence study found a real association between marijuana use and violent behavior. But the headline number hides weaker longitudinal results, missing dose and potency data, unresolved alcohol effects, and decades of prohibition tangled inside the evidence. Pot Culture Magazine digs into what the study found, what it missed, and why causation remains unsettled.
Before dispensaries, cannabis slang helped buyers and sellers talk without saying weed. Code Words traces the underground language of marijuana from Louis Armstrong’s “muggles” and Mezz Mezzrow’s “mezzrolls” to dime bags, lids, pizza, T-shirts, and 420, revealing how prohibition created a private vocabulary that legalization is slowly erasing from cultural memory.
Switzerland cannabis pilots are testing regulated pharmacy access against prohibition’s warnings. New SCRIPT interim results found no increase in consumption frequency among regular adult users and signs of lower-risk consumption, while a separate one-year pharmacy study found no mental-health deterioration. Pot Culture Magazine examines what the evidence says, and what it does not prove.
In Cannabis Lies Vol. 23, federal agencies turn an eight-point IQ finding into a sweeping warning about adolescent cannabis use. The number came from only 23 persistent adolescent-onset users in a New Zealand cohort. PCM returns to the original research, follows the claim into American policy, and exposes how scientific nuance became drug-war propaganda.
Is decriminalized weed legal? Cannabis Lies Vol. 21: The Decriminalization Lie exposes how lower marijuana penalties can keep the weed war alive through tickets, fines, police contact, illegal supply, probation trouble, immigration risk, and records. Pot Culture Magazine explains why decriminalization can be better than criminalization without becoming legalization or freedom.
Pew’s May 26, 2026 report says only 11 percent of U.S. adults want marijuana illegal in all cases. Pot Culture Magazine examines what that means for cannabis legalization, federal marijuana law, employment testing, immigration policy, banking barriers, and the drug war machinery still protecting prohibition after the public moved on.