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Harm Prevention Site continues having legal trouble.

A Philadelphia's Harm Reduction Site's Long Journey Continues - W**d Deep Dive A harm reduction site, a place where people are able to inject clean needles of their drug of choice in a safe environment without risk of incrimination and overdose, has had a very difficult road to opening in Philadelphia. After years of protests and friction from neighborhoods across the city, th...

A ruling allows gun owners to smoke ma*****na.

Gun ban for ma*****na smokers is ruled unconstitutional - W**d Deep Dive Anyone who admits to smoking ma*****na is now able to buy guns due to a ruling by a federal appeals court. The ruling came from a case in which a man was given four years in prison after being pulled over with fi****ms in his car and admitting to sometimes smoking ma*****na. This conviction will [.....

Social equity hits yet another hurdle in New York.

Social equity in New York gets paused by the courts - W**d Deep Dive A judge in New York has put a stop to any new dispensaries opening in the state of New York due to issues with the constitutionality of their social equity program. A group of veterans filed a lawsuit that claimed the licensing program that gave priority to those impacted by the war on drugs was [.....

A little help getting that Runner's High

Ma*****na Helps the Runner's High - W**d Deep Dive I like to run. There’s a certain point where a groove starts to reveal itself, and your body feels like it’s moving on its own. It’s super liberating, and it goes by the name of a “runner’s high”. And I’ve only done it a few times, but hitting that moment while also high off of […]

Here's how people smoke in Europe.

Here's how much Europeans smoke w**d - W**d Deep Dive It’s easy to get stuck in the American view of ma*****na and forget that, country by country, the plant is seen in very different ways. On one extreme, there’s Russia, which treats the consumption of ma*****na as a major offense. Europe is not Russia, and each country in Europe is different. Mos...

Twitch is as confusing as ever.

Twitch continues ban on Ma*****na sponsors despite rollback on alcohol restrictions - W**d Deep Dive Twitch has been known to enact some pretty strict guidelines on the service. Understandably so, considering most of the audience is teenagers. However, with strict guidelines comes a constant re-evaluation of these guidelines, and we’re now caught in the middle of a frustrating iteration. Twitch.....

Where do the Republican candidates stand?

What are the GOP Candidates' stances on Ma*****na? - W**d Deep Dive We’re halfway through 2023, meaning most of the Republican candidates for presidency have already thrown their hats into the ring. While Trump is still the frontrunner by a mile, things change fast in politics, and it all really depends on where things stand weeks before the election, so for now i...

This cat and mouse game with ATF is a little absurd.

Ma*****na Smokers still can't buy fi****ms - W**d Deep Dive Despite the partisanship disparity between ma*****na advocates and gun enthusiasts, both sides still want to conjoin forces if one ever wishes. However, due to a decades-old law, that still isn’t possible. This has all come to the surface again because Minnesota has recently legalized ma*****na in...

This could really spice up the block.

Ma*****na at Farmers' Markets in NYC? - W**d Deep Dive New York has too much w**d. This has been apparent since the extremely slow rollout of new business licenses, and has caused a surplus that Bloomberg reported at a value of $750 million last November. So the state is trying something new by granting approval to growers and retailers to set up some t...

We'll believe it when we see it.

Chuck Schumer yet again promises Ma*****na Banking Bill at rally - W**d Deep Dive We’ve been here before. In the third straight year of attendance at the New York ma*****na rally, Senator Schumer vowed to pass the ma*****na banking bill, SAFE Banking. He also promised to attached expungements and “social justice”. “We will put the bill on the floor—god willing we get th...

Abuses of power happen in every industry.

Oregon Secretary of State resigns due to conflict of interest in the Cannabis Industry - W**d Deep Dive Oregon’s Secretary of State, Shemia Fagan, worked as a consultant for a cannabis company in which she was paid $10,000 a month. An ethics investigation is underway to determine if she broke any ethics rules by working for a company made of political donors. In the meantime, Fagan stepped down from...

Drug decriminalization is getting more endorsements.

Leading Pharmacists in the US Call for Decriminalization of all Drugs - W**d Deep Dive One of the biggest medical associations in the country has voted to endorse the decriminalization of all drugs in the country. That’s a huge step that was being called for from drug reform activists for years. It’s also a very drastic step from where we are today, where ma*****na is still consid...

Congrats Portland!

Not the best news for one of the biggest ma*****na companies.

Tilray lost $1.2 billion last quarter, yet still to buy competitor - W**d Deep Dive The quarter ending in February wasn’t great for Tilray, who blamed higher interest rates and a declining market capitalization for its $1.2 billion loss. A loss was expected, but this is a biggie. Nonetheless, Tilray claims this doesn’t effect their available liquidity and cash flow. Internation...

Jim Belushi's show is helping normalize the w**d industry.

Jim Belushi's Show about growing w**d gets a new season starting this month - W**d Deep Dive After the second season ended with a fire on his farm, Jim Belushi’s show “Growing Belushi” is back with a bigger season (6 episodes instead of 4) and a storyline about finding a new home for his ma*****na business. Airing on Discovery, there’s a reason to celebrate a show about the growing ...

Kentucky has legalized medical ma*****na AND sports betting on the same day.

Kentucky Governor signs medical ma*****na bill into law, along with Sports Betting - W**d Deep Dive A new pattern has emerged, in which cannabis laws are being paired with sports betting legislation. On their face, they don’t seem to have much in common. However the activities tend to be very complimentary of each other on many different levels. For one, there are plenty of sports betting pothea...

Flood gates hopefully opening in New York.

New York gets the ball rolling after court allows licenses to be given out - W**d Deep Dive A major hurdle presented itself in front of New York’s ma*****na rollout when a judge prohibited dispensary licenses to be given out in Central and Western New York, Mid-Hudson, Brooklyn, and the Finger Lakes region. These are major hubs for potential dispensaries, and the block curtailed serious ...

China's getting into the ma*****na business.

Chinese organized crime is very prevalent in America's Illegal W**d Market - W**d Deep Dive An article at Politico goes into the worrying roots of much of the illicit ma*****na in our country. In illegal grows throughout Oklahoma, California, and Oregon, the presence of Chinese investment has reach new highs. For instance, in Oklahoma, 3,000 of the 7,000 licensed farms have been flagged fo...

Here's a look into psychedelics across the country.

A Status Update on Psychedelics - W**d Deep Dive With the overall slowing down of progress on the ma*****na front, it may be worth it to wade into the world of psychedelics and see where the bills stand in states across the country. Taken as a whole, it really feels like we’re gearing up for a big wave of action to happen in the […]

Very interesting case to follow in Tennessee.

The separation of children from their parents due to ma*****na in Tennessee is causing rifts - W**d Deep Dive A month ago, a couple was pulled over in Tennessee due to a dark tint on their windows and staying in the left lane without needing to pass other vehicles. The man was charged for possessing 5 grams of ma*****na, and the woman was cited and released. Afterwards, the Department of Children’s Servic...

About time!

Germany finally moving forward with ma*****na legalization - W**d Deep Dive After almost a year of dancing around the issue, Germany is going to move forward with ma*****na legalization “in the next few weeks,” according to Health Minister Karl Lauterbach. This all comes after they received the go-ahead from the EU. Germany wanted to make sure they wouldn’t be in viol...

Hate to bring it up but it's news!

Ma*****na prices still dropping in Oregon - W**d Deep Dive Doesn’t seem like we can find the bottom of this deflation on ma*****na prices. Over the past several months, the oversupply issue in the ma*****na industry has begun to crater the prices growers are able to get when selling their product. Along with California, Oregon is at the forefront of busin...

Well that didn't go according to plan...

Oklahoma votes against recreational ma*****na - W**d Deep Dive Welp, so much for that. In a ballot initiative across the entire state of Oklahoma, voters decisively voted against recreational ma*****na. With 95% of the vote in, 61.7% voted no, and 38.3% voted yes. This is surprising for a state that has really embraced its medicinal ma*****na market, with over....

Small victories...

Department of Justice is still working on Ma*****na Policy - W**d Deep Dive “I think that it’s fair to expect what I said at my confirmation hearing with respect to ma*****na and policy, that it will be very close to what was done in the Cole Memorandum,” says US Attorney General Merrick Garland. The Cole Memorandum was an Obama-era policy that directed prosecutors to...

Republicans comin in hot!

New Poll shows a big change for Republicans and W**d - W**d Deep Dive One of the more surprising turns in this decade has been the steady warming of Republicans views on ma*****na. Initially, we saw legalization bills pop up in states like Pennsylvania from Republican lawmakers, then a national bill from Representative Nancy Mace just last year. An issue that Democrat...

Happy to see this.

New Jersey Cops no longer will be tested for ma*****na - W**d Deep Dive The attorney general in New Jersey just put out the new drug policies for police in the state, and screenings for ma*****na are no longer going to be used – for the most part. New Jersey legalized recreational ma*****na last year to great fanfare, and since then, it doesn’t make much sense to be...

So much for all the Delta-8 fun.

Delta-8 Loophole no longer: DEA classifies it as a controlled substance - W**d Deep Dive For a while there, some areas of the US where w**d is prohibited had a nice little cheat code to get high. Delta 8, derived from h**p and not listed in the exceptions to the Farm Bill because it was created after the fact, was available across the country. Delta-8, and also Delta-9 THC-O, are […]

Let's check in on where we are.

Where do things stand with Federal Ma*****na legalization? - W**d Deep Dive With all the doom and gloom surrounding most of the ma*****na news out there, it may be worthwhile to look ahead and see if we have anything to look forward to in the near future. With Republicans in charge of the House, the common expectation is that most w**d legislation will be dead on arrival. [...