Day: September 3, 2026

Asylum Review

Ren and Chris Webby Got High in the Woods and Made the Best Album I’ve Heard All Year

September 3, 2026 No Comments

I found Ren by accident in a Chicago hotel room and I’ve been interviewing Chris Webby since 2018. They met through a comment section, holed up in a house in the Connecticut woods and came out with fifteen songs that didn’t exist when they walked in. It’s the best album I’ve heard all year, and the documentary explains why: you can hear the friendship.

Can Weed Feel Like Magic Mushrooms? Johns Hopkins Researchers Put THC to the Test

September 3, 2026 No Comments

A four-person Johns Hopkins pilot study found that 25 mg of oral THC could produce altered-state profiles that qualitatively resembled those seen with 25 mg of psilocybin, particularly when consumed in a setting modeled on psychedelic research. The sample is far too small to establish cannabis as a psychedelic, but the findings add to earlier research suggesting that dose, context, and individual response can push THC experiences into unexpectedly psychedelic-like territory.

Trump Just Delayed the Hemp Ban. The New Deadline Is the Day Government Funding Runs Out.

September 3, 2026 No Comments

Trump signed H.R. 6500 on Wednesday, giving the hemp industry twenty-nine extra days. December 11 is also the day the stopgap funding bill expires, so if Congress needs another hemp fix it will be negotiating inside the next appropriations fight. And one deadline didn’t move: products containing cannabinoids the cannabis plant can’t naturally produce still lose federal hemp status on November 12, with the FDA list that would identify them still unpublished nearly seven months past its deadline.

Massachusetts marijuana repeal

Massachusetts Is Voting on Whether to Shut Down a $10B Legal Weed Market. Here’s What You Need to Know

September 3, 2026 No Comments

No American state has ever voted to repeal an existing adult-use marijuana legalization law. Massachusetts gets the chance in nine weeks. Question 8 would repeal two chapters of law, end licensed sales on January 1, 2028 and eliminate home growing. One donor paid for the entire campaign that put it on the ballot, and the side defending legalization spent most of the past year in court instead of on television.

Can Weed Feel Like Magic Mushrooms? Johns Hopkins Researchers Put THC to the Test

September 3, 2026 No Comments

A four-person Johns Hopkins pilot study found that 25 mg of oral THC could produce altered-state profiles that qualitatively resembled those seen with 25 mg of psilocybin, particularly when consumed in a setting modeled on psychedelic research. The sample is far too small to establish cannabis as a psychedelic, but the findings add to earlier research suggesting that dose, context, and individual response can push THC experiences into unexpectedly psychedelic-like territory.

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Trump Just Delayed the Hemp Ban. The New Deadline Is the Day Government Funding Runs Out.

September 3, 2026 No Comments

Trump signed H.R. 6500 on Wednesday, giving the hemp industry twenty-nine extra days. December 11 is also the day the stopgap funding bill expires, so if Congress needs another hemp fix it will be negotiating inside the next appropriations fight. And one deadline didn’t move: products containing cannabinoids the cannabis plant can’t naturally produce still lose federal hemp status on November 12, with the FDA list that would identify them still unpublished nearly seven months past its deadline.

Read More »
Massachusetts marijuana repeal

Massachusetts Is Voting on Whether to Shut Down a $10B Legal Weed Market. Here’s What You Need to Know

September 3, 2026 No Comments

No American state has ever voted to repeal an existing adult-use marijuana legalization law. Massachusetts gets the chance in nine weeks. Question 8 would repeal two chapters of law, end licensed sales on January 1, 2028 and eliminate home growing. One donor paid for the entire campaign that put it on the ballot, and the side defending legalization spent most of the past year in court instead of on television.

Read More »

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