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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.
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.
Canada surpassed California in June legal cannabis sales, exposing a California cannabis market weakened by local retail bans, limited licensed access, tax pressure, and an illicit economy the state still has not absorbed. Pot Culture Magazine examines the numbers behind the legal weed crown and why California’s cannabis problem is access, not demand.
Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome is real, but the latest “scromiting” panic outruns the CDC data behind it. Pot Culture Magazine examines a new CHS diagnosis code, 199,565 emergency visits, a combined 15-to-24 age group, and the difference between a documented medical burden and an alarmist headline that turns hospital records into a teen weed emergency.
Can Georgia mail medical cannabis directly to registered patients? The state’s proposed delivery rule names USPS and private carriers, but federal postal requirements still demand answers about prescriptions, packaging, vaping products, and DEA registration. Pot Culture Magazine follows the legal route from Georgia’s Commission to Publication 52 and finds where the package could stop.
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.