Legal Weed, Illegal Contract

A Michigan cannabis grower won nearly $31.8 million after a jury found its buyer breached a state-legal marijuana supply agreement. Then the Sixth Circuit erased the judgment, ruling that federal courts cannot enforce a contract requiring conduct federal law still treats as illegal.

Switzerland Puts Legal Weed to the Test

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.

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS SHIT UP: Operation Constant Gardener

Filed Under: Drug War, Built for Television Seven deputies entered a Kansas family’s home and searched it for more than two hours. What sent them there was stranger than anything they found. It was a chilly April morning in Leawood, Kansas, an affluent suburb of Kansas City, when seven Johnson County sheriff’s deputies converged on... Continue Reading →

Legal to Hold. Nowhere Legal to Buy.

Massachusetts Question 8 would close adult-use cannabis stores, cut the penalty-free possession limit back to one ounce, preserve medical cannabis, and leave consumer demand behind. Pot Culture Magazine examines the legal trap, the $1.65 billion adult-use market, polling, tax consequences, campaign money, and the question repeal supporters still have to answer.

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS SHIT UP: Uncle Sam’s Weed Tin

Pot Culture Magazine launches YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS SHIT UP, a new weekly series built from completely true cannabis stories too absurd to invent. The debut follows Irvin Rosenfeld, the federal patient who received a wax-sealed tin containing 300 government joints while Washington continued insisting marijuana had no accepted medical use.

Cannabis Lies Vol. 24: The Forfeiture Lie

In Cannabis Lies Vol. 24: The Forfeiture Lie, Pot Culture Magazine examines how asset forfeiture turned homes, farms, and businesses into defendants. Government records and Supreme Court cases reveal how marijuana enforcement gave law-enforcement agencies a financial interest in property taken from the people they targeted.

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