Category: Analysis

In Texas, One Delta-8 THC Gummy Can Carry More Prison Time Than an Ounce of Weed

September 6, 2026 No Comments

A single four-gram delta-8 gummy can now expose its owner to a felony bracket that runs to twenty years, because Texas weighs the whole product and a gummy is mostly sugar. An ounce of marijuana is still a misdemeanor. The Legislature never voted for any of it, and the delta-9 gummies that survived the crackdown are legal on a technicality federal law erases in November.

Cannabis Chads

Beware of the Chads

September 5, 2026 No Comments

Berner calls them the Chads: the ones who arrive with contracts and agendas and no feel for the plant. A new wave of institutional money is about to be free to deploy into cannabis, and the last one took MedMen, Flow Kana, Canopy and High Times itself from the people who built them. Rolando García on what the term sheets did, and what the founders who kept control did differently.

Hawaii Banned Smokable Hemp in 2020. Stores Sold It Openly for Five Years. Then the Crackdown Began.

September 4, 2026 No Comments

Hawaii’s Act 14 prohibited smokable hemp in 2020. For five years stores sold flower, pre-rolls and vapes openly, hired staff and built a customer base on top of it. Then the 2025 registration law gave the state inspection and seizure powers, enforcement began, and one Oahu retailer says he lost 90% of his revenue in weeks. Both things are true at once, and only one of them shows up in the statute.

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.

The Record That Decides Whether Weed Leaves Schedule I Just Needed 294 Corrections. A Few Reversed What Witnesses Said.

August 28, 2026 No Comments

A Tennessee investigator testified that cannabis shipments arrive with paperwork claiming legal levels of delta-9 THC, and the lab finds much higher. For six weeks the record said illegal. That was one of 294 corrections Judge Derek Julius ordered before the DEA published the full 2,533-page transcript. Most are clerical. A handful changed what a witness said, including one that had the direction of rescheduling backwards.

Weed Can’t Get Past 34%. The Labels Go to 42%. The System Rewards the Lie.

August 28, 2026 No Comments

Someone bought fifteen cannabis products off Denver shelves and sent them to a lab. Two came back legal. On average the labels claimed 34.2% more THC than the products held. A Spanish engineer who has spent sixteen years scanning flower explains why the incentive to inflate runs through every link in the chain, why California calculates that fixing it costs four times what consumers would gain, and what would actually break the loop.

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An Eighth of Weed Costs $15 in Washington and $52 in Kentucky. The Reason Isn’t What You Think.

September 16, 2026 No Comments

The national price of an eighth moved seven cents in a year, but 24 of 34 states cut theirs. Medical patients look gouged until you weight by how much each state actually sells, and then the gap vanishes to a single cent. What’s left is store count: states with fewer than 25 dispensaries sell an eighth at $43.89, states with more than 300 sell it at $18.50.

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mushroom coffin

Inside the Mushroom-and-Hemp Coffin Designed to Return Bodies to the Earth

September 9, 2026 No Comments

Dutch company Loop Biotech’s Living Cocoon is a biodegradable coffin made from mycelium and recycled hemp fibers that can break down in roughly 45 days while helping return nutrients to the soil. The concept gained fresh attention after a 70-year-old woman named Carolyn became the first person in Australia to be buried in one. What should happen to our bodies

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In Texas, One Delta-8 THC Gummy Can Carry More Prison Time Than an Ounce of Weed

September 6, 2026 No Comments

A single four-gram delta-8 gummy can now expose its owner to a felony bracket that runs to twenty years, because Texas weighs the whole product and a gummy is mostly sugar. An ounce of marijuana is still a misdemeanor. The Legislature never voted for any of it, and the delta-9 gummies that survived the crackdown are legal on a technicality federal law erases in November.

Read More »
Cannabis Chads

Beware of the Chads

September 5, 2026 No Comments

Berner calls them the Chads: the ones who arrive with contracts and agendas and no feel for the plant. A new wave of institutional money is about to be free to deploy into cannabis, and the last one took MedMen, Flow Kana, Canopy and High Times itself from the people who built them. Rolando García on what the term sheets did, and what the founders who kept control did differently.

Read More »

Hawaii Banned Smokable Hemp in 2020. Stores Sold It Openly for Five Years. Then the Crackdown Began.

September 4, 2026 No Comments

Hawaii’s Act 14 prohibited smokable hemp in 2020. For five years stores sold flower, pre-rolls and vapes openly, hired staff and built a customer base on top of it. Then the 2025 registration law gave the state inspection and seizure powers, enforcement began, and one Oahu retailer says he lost 90% of his revenue in weeks. Both things are true at once, and only one of them shows up in the statute.

Read More »

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.

Read More »

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 »

The Record That Decides Whether Weed Leaves Schedule I Just Needed 294 Corrections. A Few Reversed What Witnesses Said.

August 28, 2026 No Comments

A Tennessee investigator testified that cannabis shipments arrive with paperwork claiming legal levels of delta-9 THC, and the lab finds much higher. For six weeks the record said illegal. That was one of 294 corrections Judge Derek Julius ordered before the DEA published the full 2,533-page transcript. Most are clerical. A handful changed what a witness said, including one that had the direction of rescheduling backwards.

Read More »

Weed Can’t Get Past 34%. The Labels Go to 42%. The System Rewards the Lie.

August 28, 2026 No Comments

Someone bought fifteen cannabis products off Denver shelves and sent them to a lab. Two came back legal. On average the labels claimed 34.2% more THC than the products held. A Spanish engineer who has spent sixteen years scanning flower explains why the incentive to inflate runs through every link in the chain, why California calculates that fixing it costs four times what consumers would gain, and what would actually break the loop.

Read More »
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