When I spoke with Cheech & Chong’s team in 2025, the tone leaned more toward business planning than cultural throwback, which makes sense at this stage of the industry. But there’s still room for a ...

Judges across two coasts crowned the Papaya Solventless Rosin Bar as California’s solventless vape MVP, highlighting a strong ...

That’s what researchers from Oregon State University (OSU), together with a panel of trained sensory specialists, presented in a new study published in PLOS One. The team assembled 24 sensory analysis ...

There’s a saying in economics that sums up consolidation: big fish eat little fish. It can be bitter, but you can only shrug at the way the market moves. In cannabis, the image carries extra weight.

For decades, cannabis has been trapped in a political purgatory, classified, vilified, and regulated as if it were a dangerous, single-molecule synthetic drug. But anyone who’s ever looked beyond the ...

While federal lawmakers are busy advancing a nationwide ban on most hemp-derived THC products, New Orleans just did something very New Orleans. It opened a THC cocktail bar on Frenchmen Street. Tucked ...

The world used to pretend weed was a dude thing… cute. But stoner girls have always been here; rolling, sparking, sharing, passing, laughing, and living deliciously high. We are not the sidekicks, the ...

For years, the story of cannabis reform sounded linear. Voters legalize, regulators build a system, the market matures, everyone moves on. But that story is starting to glitch. In Massachusetts, ...

And yes, there are studies showing that plenty of people are drinking less now that getting cannabis is as easy as getting a sandwich. The setup followed the scientific gold standard: a randomized, ...

The most challenging aspect of being a 12-year-old cannabis aficionado in the 1978 Midwest was finding someone to buy you weed. Luckily—or so I thought in the autumn of 1978–I had a guy, a friend of ...

This article is an adapted version of the Cannabis Confidential newsletter. The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author. The IgniteIt (né Benzinga) Cannabis Capital & Policy ...

Germany’s cannabis world is moving fast. While the country breaks its own records for medical flower imports, it’s also moving forward—unevenly but steadily—with its system of adult-use cannabis ...