Cannabis Just Beat the Roses: A Weed Strain Won Europe’s Top Garden Award
It wasn’t a cannabis competition. It wasn’t a weed expo. It was a traditional, old-school horticulture trade fair. Think geraniums, tomatoes, ornamental […]
Smell Over Potency? This New Tech Says That’s the Future of Weed.
For decades, cannabis marketing trained consumers to chase numbers. THC percentages became shorthand for potency, quality, and value. But if you’re one […]
California Is Spending Millions to Decide What Counts as ‘Real’ Cannabis Flavor
When California legalized adult-use cannabis, it did something bold and imperfect. It moved faster than science. That was not recklessness. It was […]
The Power 100: The Black Leaders Who Built Cannabis, Not Just the Ones You Know
As the cannabis industry professionalizes, consolidates, and globalizes, a basic question still goes unanswered far too often:Who built this space, and who […]
Why Training Plants Is a Waste of Time: Here’s What Actually Works
You may be reading this article and thinking, hang on a minute, what is this author talking about? Now, before you read […]
USA: NORML Argues in Supreme Court Brief That Disarming Cannabis Consumers Is Unconstitutional
NORML’s Amicus Committee today filed an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Hemani, arguing that the […]
Legal Weed, Illegal Life: Dana Beal and the War That Never Ended
Cannabis is legal across much of America. So why is one of legalization’s longest-standing activists still facing jail time in Idaho? Cannabis […]
Canada: Judge tosses cannabis trafficking case after lead prosecutor had affair with defence lawyer
Canada Defence lawyer Mathieu Rondeau-Poissant leaves the courthouse in Montreal on Sept. 24, 2025. He and former prosecutor Alice Bourbonnais-Rougeau had a […]
This 72-Year-Old Has Been to 24,000 Concerts. Weed Is How He Keeps Going.
As a metaphor for the passage of time, The Simpsons’ episode “Homerpalooza” (season 7, episode 24) portrays Homer in an exercise in […]
Government-Led Party Drug-Testing: Inside Uruguay’s No-Penalty Harm Reduction Program
Far from demonizing people who use drugs—a global reality that some countries have chosen to acknowledge and address rather than forbid—Uruguay is […]