Financial News on Marijuana

Along with cocaine, marijuana is much less addictive than alcohol and nicotine. Its current legal status has nothing do to with science, public health, or economics. Wikipedia: Cannabis

• The legal cannabis market in Los Angeles is hitting a breaking point. At least two-thirds of LA marijuana businesses have failed to pay their local taxes, and the city is currently out hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue.
  - SF Gate, 22 October 2025

• Editorial: automobile drivers with high levels of THC in their blood from smoking potent marijuana are contributing to more highway accident deaths.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 09 October 2025

• Shares of marijuana stocks rise after Trump promoted a video pushing to put cannabidiol, or CBD, under Medicare coverage. Tilray Brands was up as much 36%, Canopy Growth up 20%, Cronos Group up 13%, Aurora Cannabis up 13%, and Trulieve Cannabis up 20%
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 29 September 2025

• $1,890,000 - David Ju, the owner of a Los Angeles area cannabis company, won a nearly $1.9 million verdict earlier this month against the city of Baldwin Park and multiple public officials after a jury agreed the local politicians had committed fraud during the city's cannabis licensing process. A 2022 investigation by the Los Angeles Times found the city's cannabis licensing scheme was rife with corruption, including allegations that bribes as high as $250,000 were being paid to city officials in brown paper bags in order to get coveted permits to work in the legal cannabis industry.
  - SF Gate, 29 September 2025

• Oklahoma overrun with marijuana farms operated by companies from Zhōngguó. A vast quantity of marijuana grown in the state leaves for the black market. Officials say 85 percent of grow sites have connections to companies in Zhōngguó.
  - Zero Hedge, 28 September 2025

• Pregnant women are turning to cannabis to ease pain and anxiety. Cannabis use during pregnancy is on the rise, although research suggests it can disupt early fetal brain development and increase the odds of premature birth.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 15 September 2025

• CanAdelaar, which operates a massive legal cannabis farm in the Netherlands, has been told to reduce the odor coming from its facility or risk closure after more than 2,000 complaints from hundreds of residents
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 12 September 2025

• $2,000,000 - A cannabis testing lab in New York, Lexachrom Analytical Laboratory, is facing a three-year ban and a record fine of $2 million after state investigators found unacceptable levels of pesticides in products the company had cleared as safe for sale
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 September 2025

• Marijuana may cause chromosomal defects in human egg cells, study finds
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 09 September 2025

• The complete idiocy of racist global drug policies: the CEO of Suntory, a giant beverage company in Nihon, resigns after he used some supplements that contained THC (which is strictly regulated in Nihon). He can drinks tons of addictive alcohol, he can some lots of highly addictive nicotine - but he can't relax a bit with some THC supplements. The complete idiocy of racist global drug laws.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 02 September 2025

• The complete idiocy of racist global drug policies: the CEO of Suntory, a giant beverage company in Nihon, resigns after he used some supplements that contained THC (which is strictly regulated in Nihon). He can drinks tons of addictive alcohol, he can some lots of highly addictive nicotine - but he can't relax a bit with some THC supplements. The complete idiocy of racist global drug laws.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 September 2025

• High-strength marijuana grown in California is so popular in the United Kingdom that large quantities are being illegally smuggled on passenger flights
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 September 2025

• What is driving the wild swings in the price of marijuana company Tilray, up 40% on Monday though down 30% year-to-date?
  - Tip Ranks, 17 August 2025

• Five health problems concerning cannabis and psychosis
  - EurekAlert, 12 August 2025

• Another non-cryptocurrency company bets its finances in the cryptocurrency casino. A little-known Canadian vape company called CEA Industries saw shares surge nearly 550% after it announced a plan to enter the cryptocurrency treasury game.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 28 July 2025

• Alcohol drug delivery companies, Big Alcohol, prepare to compete harder with the marijuana drug delivery industry as cannabis drinks steal sales from alcohol companies
  - Thomson's Reuters, 24 July 2025

• In an effort to help drug traffickers illegally selling marijuana, politicians in California enact a law to increase higher excise taxes on sales of legal marijuana
  - Zero Hedge, 02 July 2025

• Are marijuana stores the new 'local bar'? Young adults are drinking less alcohol and seeking more connection, and dispensaries of marijuana in New York are marketing themselves as alternative gathering spaces.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 June 2025

• Thailand was the first country in Asia to fully decriminalize marijuana. But Thailand failed to pass regulations for the industry, so now it has grown out of control (including smuggling by tourists and into nearby countries, and overproduction ruining the economics). So the government wants to partially re-criminalize marijuana by only allowing medical uses of marijuana, requiring a doctor's prescription (easily obtained).
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 28 June 2025

• Medical cannabis is now available in Costa Rica. However, access remains tightly regulated. Its sale is restricted exclusively to pharmacies, and a doctor's prescription is required, according to the newly enacted regulation.
  - TicoTimes, 19 June 2025

• Use of marijuana doubles the risk of dying from heart attakcs and strokes. "We found that vascular function was reduced by 42% in marijuana smokers and by 56% in THC-edible users compared to nonusers."
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 17 June 2025

• $205,000 - Timber Cannabis, a chain of 7 marijuana stores in Michigan, will pay $205.,000 to settle a workers' lawsuit alleging that management was keeping tips left by happy customers
  - Disney's ABC News, 06 June 2025

• Brown-Forman, the parent of alcohol drug-trafficker Jack Daniels, is having its sales hurt by weight-loss drugs and marijuana. Its latest earnings decline sent its stock price down 17%.
  - Murdoch's MarketWatch, 05 June 2025

• Brown-Forman, the parent of alcohol drug-trafficker Jack Daniels, is having its sales hurt by weight-loss drugs and marijuana. Its latest earnings decline sent its stock price down 17%.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 05 June 2025

• Whether it is smoking marijuana or eating edible marijuana, marijuana is bad for your heart
  - Univ. California, San Francisco, 27 May 2025

• Politicians in Texas move to ban legal THC and hemp, amid medical marijuana expansion
  - The Hill, 22 May 2025

• Removing marijuana from the government's most restrictive class of drugs had support from Biden and Trump last year. But the DEA, to preserve its jobs, slowed the effort.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 May 2025

• CBN - cannabinol - the new medicinal chemical available from marijuana leaves
  - SF Gate, 20 May 2025

• The consumption of alcohol is declining in the USA. The consumption, especially in beverages of THC (less addictive than alcohol, from marijuana) is increasing.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 14 May 2025

• "It is not a question that cannabis drinks are effecting alcohol sales". Cannabis-infused drinks are gaining popularity as an alternative for consumers embracing an alcohol-free lifestyle. This year, the cannabis market in the U.S. is anticipated to exceed $45 billion.
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 10 May 2025

• Using marijuana during pregnancy is linked to poor fetal development, low infant birth weight, dangerously early deliveries and even death, according to a new meta-analysis of research
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 05 May 2025

• "It is really killing our industry": for the marijuana marketplace in Massachusetts, the profits are less and less. Because of oversupply and federal restrictions, the marijuana industry in Massachusetts has financial difficulties.
  - Boston Globe, 01 May 2025

• Scotts Miracle-Gro is selling its marijuana business, because the marijuana business has been hampered by a slow legalization process at the federal level. "We burned $2 billion there.", according to CEO Jim Hagedorn.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 25 April 2025

• Scotts Miracle-Gro is selling its marijuana business, because the marijuana business has been hampered by a slow legalization process at the federal level. Its investments into marijuana did not pay off. The company is now refocusing on its traditional lawn and garden business.
  - Barron's, 25 April 2025

• Your marijuana habit may be messing with your sperm. A growing body of evidence now shows that cannabis is destructive to male fertility.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 April 2025

• Trump's taxes/tariffs will raise the prices for marijuana buyers in the USA, as importer supplies to grow marijuana and equipment to use marijuana become more expensive
  - Thomson's Reuters, 03 April 2025

• ~$18,000,000 - Mark Roy Anderson was sentenced last week in California to 25 years in jail after swindling investors out of nearly $18 million in an elaborate CBD scam that involved a fake Kern County hemp farm and cannabis-infused tequila.
  - SF Gate, 02 April 2025

• Sales of junk food rise 0.8% one year after a state legalizes marijuana. The increase in spending on junk food is even more impressive if you realise that people start to make fewer trips to the supermarket. Which is where gym owners come in. If people are hanging out on their sofas getting high, they are most certainly not going to the gym to work out.
  - Klement on Investing, 28 March 2025

• Gold Flora, a cannabis company in California with 16 dispensaries, with $100 million in revenues, is seeking receivership, looking to sell off all of its assets as it faces mounting financial losses and eventually to shut down the sprawling business.
  - SF Gate, 28 March 2025

• Weed smokers under age 50 are six times as likely to have a heart attack
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 18 March 2025

• The state of Missouri has become a mecca for the marijuana industry
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 17 March 2025

• Using cannabis may cause changes in the human body's epigenome, a study of over 1,000 adults suggests. Multiple epigenetic changes associated with cannabis use had previously been linked to things like cellular proliferation, hormone signaling, infections, neurological disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and substance use disorders.
  - Science Alert, 17 March 2025

• A startup in California is selling injectable CBD. The FDA is not happy. Pico IV sells a purified version of CBD, a non-intoxicating compound produced by cannabis, that is designed to be injected into the bloodstream through an intravenous infusion. he FDA, however, warned Pico IV in a Monday letter that it is breaking the law by marketing CBD as a "dietary supplement", even though it is explicitly designed to not be ingested and instead be injected.
  - SF Gate, 13 March 2025

• The rise and fall of the "Napa Valley of cannabis". Pueblo, Colorado, had high hopes for a marijuana boom. Now financial troubles plague the industry.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 March 2025

• The cannabis buzz is wearing off for private lenders for the industry. The investment that flowed into the cannabis industry as dozens of states legalized the drug in recent years has slowed to a trickle, pressuring some private lenders that have become the primary source of its financing.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 27 February 2025

• People in Ohio criticize a proposed law by Republicans to rewrite marijuana law passed by voters. "This proposed law is not about consumer safety. It is about control, corporate monopolies and shutting out the competition."
  - Ohio Capital Journal, 19 February 2025

• Hospital and emergency room patients diagnosed with cannabis use disorder -- defined as an inability to stop using cannabis even when the drug is causing harm -- died at almost three times the rate of individuals without the disorder over the next five years, according to a study published on Thursday, the largest on the subject.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 February 2025

• New research from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus shows that heavy lifetime cannabis use may harm working memory in young adults
  - Jiaravanon's Fortune, 28 January 2025

• The hemp industry has boomed since Congress legalized the category of cannabis in 2018. Hemp has historically been used to describe cannabis used for non-drug purposes, like food and clothing, but Congress wrote a broad definition of hemp that has allowed intoxicating drugs to be sold as hemp everywhere from gas stations to online retailers. But Colombia cannot do the same to allow sales of cocaine.
  - SF Gate, 27 January 2025

• CBD, a potentially useful medical compound, is found in a non-marijuana plant. CBD has been found in the fruits and flowers of a plant known as Trema micrantha blume, a shrub which grows across much of the South American country and is often considered a weed.
  - Science Alert, 26 January 2025

• Inside the $32 billion industry transforming marijuana, its consumption and beliefs about its ability to heal. Businesses in the USA are enticing customers with unproven health claims, while largely escaping rigorous oversight. Potentcy has gone up - with some products advertised as having as much as 99 percent THC - and prices have gone down. All the while, marijuana remains a completely illegal Schedule I drug.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 January 2025

• As use of marijuana grows in the USA, the effect on road safety remains a blind spot
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 January 2025

• The number of Americans turning to marijuana as a substitute for alcohol, cigarettes, and painkillers has surged in recent years, according to a new survey by Bloomberg Intelligence. Amir Islam of Bloomberg Intelligence highlighted a "sudden spike" in the substitution of marijuana for alcohol, with the latest survey showing 44% of respondents making the switch, up from 33% in 2022.
  - Zero Hedge, 25 December 2024

• More teenagers are using dangerously potent marijuana for intense highs. Dabbing involves inhaling fumes from highly concentrated cannabis that is heated at high temperatures.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 December 2024

• How Michigan creates a $10 billion market for marijuana, just five years after legalizing the recreational cannabis industry.
  - Politico, 04 December 2024

• How Jay Z's Monogram, a luxury marijuana company in California, went from having $575 million in cash, to a "debt seath spiral". After flashy launch, Jay Z's pot brand can't be found on California shelves. After going public in a SPAC deal in 2020, with the $575 million in cash, it wasted all of the money on expenses and acquisitions, to sell a $50 marijuana cigarette that wasn't worth $5.
  - SF Gate, 02 December 2024

• Six 'narco submarines' travelling from Colombia to Australia are seized in a massive international operation that netter 225 metric tons of cocaine, the rest being marijuana.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 28 November 2024

• The Supreme Court of Costa Rica rules that recreational marijuana is unconstitutional because it requires Costa Rica to ignore international drug treaties that it has signed, the Supreme Court unethically refusing to recognize that many other countries such as the USA and Canada that have signed these treaties ... ignore these treaties
  - Q Costa Rica, 28 November 2024

• Tilray Brands, a leading marijuana company in Canada, is buying lots of craft beer brewers in the USA
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 November 2024

• Marijuana for PTSD? Eager for better science research for cannabis, the FDA approves a study. The decision is the latest sign that federal health officials want more research on medical marijuana as its use grows.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 November 2024

• Prediction: Tilray Brands will not be a marijuana company in 5 years, as it focuses on easier drugs to sell - alcohol and sugary beverages
  - Motley Fool, 20 November 2024

• How California allowed large marijuana farms, using lots of technology from Silicon Valley, to destroy all of the small marijuana family-farms, despite promises to protect the small farms. Legalization that supported big corporate marijuana farms has shuttered thousands of pot farms across Northern California, destroying multi-generational cannabis businesses and leaving rural towns boarded up.
  - SF Gate, 17 November 2024

• The governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, is using every lever at his disposal to defeat two November ballot measures that would legalize cannabis and restore access to abortions in Florida. The flurry of actions has generated litigation, a rebuke from a federal judge and assertions that state officials may be breaking the law.
  - Politico, 30 October 2024

• Legal marijuana contains dangerous mold. States approve it anyway. State-mandated tests frequently find mold just below legal limits, WSJ analysis shows, suggesting that tainted samples are being cleared for sale.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 October 2024

• The largest cannabis delivery company in California, Eaze, will shut down by the end of the year, according to a letter from the chief executive officer Sunday, joining a growing number of marijuana businesses in the state that are going out of business. A report by GreenWave Advisors found that marijuana companies owe California around $732 million in unpaid sales, excise, and cultivation taxes which include penalties and interest. However, 72 percent of those taxes are owed by businesses that are no longer in operation.
  - Zero Hedge, 09 October 2024

• The United Kingdom warns 'drug mules' as cannabis smuggling from Thailand reaches record highs
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 06 October 2024

• As the use increases of marijuana in the USA, so do the harms increase. The drug, legal in much of the country, is widely seen as nonaddictive and safe. For some users, these assumptions are dangerously wrong.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 October 2024

• President Nixon started the war of drugs [for those drugs controlled by non-white people]. Privately, he said that marijuana was "not particularly dangerous", a hypocrisy that condemned tens of thousands of people to jail for crimes involving marijuana that shouldn't have been crimes.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 September 2024

• The state of New York legalized marijuana. So why does it still have an illegal weed problem? City and state officials say that they have shut down more than 1,300 illicit outlets. It is believed that thousands more remain in business. Without enough licensed dispensaries to serve demand, thousands of unlicensed sellers stepped in, often flouting rules by popping up near schools and selling weed in colorful packaging. One reason why enforcement agents do not immediately punish unlicensed cannabis retailers is because it takes time to investigate connected ownership groups.
  - Politico, 13 September 2024

• Legalization of marijuana is very popular. Here is why the stocks of marijuana companies are not popular. MSOS, one of the biggest cannabis ETFs, is down 80% over three years. For now, many state-approved cannabis companies cannot secure ordinary stock listings or do business across state lines. Even though they are operating illegally in the view of the federal government, they must pay taxes. But despite the taxes, special rules for Schedule 1 drug businesses disallow many ordinary business deductions. So some businesses, especially retailers, get hit with tax rates over 70%.
  - Barron's, 07 September 2024

• Use of marijuana linked to epigenetic changes in human DNA
  - Science Alert, 02 September 2024

• Marijuana is too strong now. As marijuana has become easier to obtain, it has become harder to smoke. By 2022, levels of THC in marijuana had more than tripled compared to 25 years ago, from 5% to 16%. It is making makrijuana dangerous to smoke.
  - The Atlantic, 29 August 2024

• Toxic homes for sale: how the illegal marijuana industry in California ruins houses. Officials are finding houses riddled with residual nerve agent pesticides that are not in any USA chemical library.
  - Zero Hedge, 28 August 2024

• The most innovative marijuana companies in California are giving up on the legal market, including giving up their licenses, and moving to the hemp industry. The hemp industry has lower taxes, cheaper regulations and the ability to sell in 30 states across the country instead of just in California.
  - SF Gate, 13 August 2024

• Republicans are making a last push against the finalization of the Biden admininstration's move to reschedule marijuana (from Schedule I to Schedule III), despite advocates saying the fight isn't worth the effort. The Republicans ignore the scientific fact that fully legal tobacco/nicotine is more addictive and destructive than marijuana (but don't oppose restricting tobacco ).
  - The Hill, 01 August 2024

• More people are driving on cannabis. Law enforcement is racing to learn who is high. Oral-fluid tests and more training are helping officers track down those who are driving while potentially impaired.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 31 July 2024

• Doctors in Australia say medical cannabis leading to increase in psychosis in patients
  - Zero Hedge, 24 July 2024

• The IRS leaves no 'wiggle-room' on higher taxes for legal cannabis companies. The Internal Revenue Service has said cannabis companies must continue to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in income taxes under the 280E tax code measure despite a move by the federal government to reschedule cannabis to a less-restrictive category of drugs. The IRS rules that legal cannabis companies cannot take the usual tax deductions.
  - Murdoch's MarketWatch, 05 July 2024

• How uninhabited terrain became a hotbed for black market marijuana. Illegal cannabis operations have brought serious crime to California's Siskiyou County, including robberies, theft, and five unsolved homicides, sheriff says.
  - Zero Hedge, 29 June 2024

• Brazil becomes the largest nation to decriminalize marijuana. The Supreme Court of Brazil voted to remove criminal penalties for possession of up to 40 grams of marijuana.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 June 2024

• The Supreme Court of Brazil on Tuesday moved toward decriminalizing possession of marijuana for personal use, which would make Brazil one of the last countries in Latin America to do so and could reduce its massive prison population. Despite a 2006 liberalization law, the police continue to arrest people carrying small quantities of drugs on trafficking charges and the prison population of Brazil continued to swell. Congress, controlled by politicans who like fostering social pain, has responded to the top court's ongoing deliberations by separately advancing a proposal to tighten drug legislation, which would complicate the legal picture surrounding marijuana possession.
  - Associated Press, 25 June 2024

• Six years after California legalized marijuana, the bodies keep piling up. Drug legalization has failed on every level. The legal drug business is collapsing. Cartels and gang members dominate the business. And open borders allowed them to bring massive numbers of laborers to boost their ranks.
  - Gatestone Institute, 21 June 2024

• Some "sovereign flex": how a tribe defied officials through cannabis. The Eastern Band of Cherokees says opening a dispensary is an act of sovereignty. But North Carolina officials have sought to restrict sales. Some Republicans are striking back with a proposed law to withhold certain federal funds from states and tribes that permit the use of recreational marijuana. The Cherokees are getting support from other Native American tribes, who want to launch their marijuana businesses as well.
  - Al Jazeera, 17 June 2024

• Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (a Democrat) pardoned more than 175,000 marijuana convictions for an estimated 100,000 people on Monday morning. Something you think that Republicans would want to do to help people rehabilitate over a non-crime.
  - Axios, 17 June 2024

• South Africa legalises the use of cannabis. Will the rest of Africa follow? It is now legal for people in South Africa to grow and use cannabis. The next challenge -- making it legal to trade. A continent is watching.
  - Al Jazeera, 10 June 2024

• The plight of the marijuana market in Colorado. What once was a success story has now left a trail of failed businesses and cash-strapped entrepreneurs in its wake. Regulatory burdens, an oversaturated market and increasing competition from nearby states have all landed major blows, leaving other states with newer marijuana markets scrambling to avoid the same mistakes.
  - Politico, 09 June 2024

• The plight of the marijuana market in Colorado. What once was a success story has now left a trail of failed businesses and cash-strapped entrepreneurs in its wake. Regulatory burdens, an oversaturated market and increasing competition from nearby states have all landed major blows, leaving other states with newer marijuana markets scrambling to avoid the same mistakes.
  - Zero Hedge, 09 June 2024

• After his brother dies from a lifetime use of marijuana and alcohol, at the age of 67, Senator Rick Scott says he will vote against recreational marijuana, but of course won't vote to equally ban the much more addictive, destructive alcohol, because Scott is the typical hypocritical politician.
  - Associated Press, 07 June 2024

• Why the use of marijuana is replacing the use of alcohol is a growing trend in the USA
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 31 May 2024

• An association of 950 police unions in California, representing over 80,000 police officers, reverses and now supports the legalization of marijuana. "For the vast majority of Americans, marijuana is legal and accessible."
  - SF Gate, 31 May 2024

• Kush, a synthetic drug, is ravaging young people in Sierra Leone. Kush is marijuana mixed with synthetic drugs like fentanyl and tramadol and chemicals like formaldehyde.
  - Associated Press, 25 May 2024

• Pakistan plans to legalize the farming and sales of hemp products, to promote legal businesses while crushing the illegal market for marijuana. But is Pakistan too late to the global cannabis party?
  - Al Jazeera, 08 May 2024

• Investors wary of US cannabis ETFs despite recent rally. Justice Department recently said it plans to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug
  - Murdoch's Fox News, 08 May 2024

• Shares of Tilray jump 22%, and shares of Canopy Growth jump 26%, after the DEA announces plans to move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III
  - Zero Hedge, 30 April 2024

• Cannabis use is linked to epigenetic changes. Multiple epigenetic changes associated with cannabis use had previously been linked to things like cellular proliferation, hormone signaling, infections, neurological disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and substance use disorders.
  - Science Alert, 26 April 2024

• President Biden mercifully pardons 5 crack dealers from federal prisons (their sentences now would be less than when jailed), but in three-and-a-half years as president, Biden has failed to show mercy to 2700 federal inmates imprisoned on marijuana charges, which was a campaign promise
  - Zero Hedge, 25 April 2024

• Cannabis use greatest among lower-income and less educated. 9% of U.S. adults report using cannabis regularly.
  - Zero Hedge, 23 April 2024

• $686,000,000 - Nine people are arrested, charged with a $686 million Ponzi crime scheme that targeted investors into medical marijuana
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 13 April 2024

• Sierra Leone declares national emergency after steep rise in use of deadly synthetic drug kush (a mixture of marijuana and two opioids)
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 06 April 2024

• Companies in the USA were big on CBD, but not anymore. A lack of federal regulation and a mishmash of state laws have made selling products featuring the cannabis-derived ingredient not worth the trouble.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 March 2024

• Smoking, vaping or eating marijuana is linked to a significantly higher risk of heart attack and stroke, even if a person had no existing heart conditions and did not smoke or vape tobacco, a new study published in the Journal of the AMA is reporting.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 28 February 2024

• The lower house of parliament in Deutschland voted to legalize cannabis for limited recreational use on Friday despite warnings from the opposition and medical authorities.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 24 February 2024

• Contamination of marijuana products is linked to lethal illnesses. Users have reported high levels of heavy metals in their blood and urine, while some studies, per the Journal, have linked cannabis use to a higher risk of fungal infections, numbness, bleeding in the lungs and artery disease.
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 21 February 2024

• A bipartisan group of 50 US lawmakers have requested that Attorney General Merrick Garland provide information on illegal marijuana grow operations in the US that are linked to the Communist Party of Zhōngguó.
  - Zero Hedge, 05 February 2024

• Major Republican donors in Florida will earn huge profits if the state's Supreme Court legalizes recreational cannabis. Governor Ron DeSantis still opposes recreational cannabis, but his handpicked Supreme Court justices are coming around, influenced by their rich Republican colleagues.
  - The Intercept, 28 January 2024

• Major Republican donors in Florida will earn huge profits if the state's Supreme Court legalizes recreational cannabis. Governor Ron DeSantis still opposes recreational cannabis, but his handpicked Supreme Court justices are coming around, influenced by their rich Republican colleagues.
  - The Intercept, 28 January 2024

• Federal scientists at the FDA and NIH have recommend easing restrictions on marijuana. In newly disclosed documents, federal researchers find that cannabis may have medical uses and is less likely to cause harm than drugs like heroin. The scientists have recommended that the Drug Enforcement Administration make marijuana a Schedule III drug, alongside the likes of ketamine and testosterone, which are available by prescription.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 January 2024

• Marijuana buyers from Texas (still illegal) help create a 'Little Amersterdam' in New Mexico (legal), across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. Abortion clinics in New Mexico (mostly legal) are also doing a good business with women from Texas (mostly illegal).
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 January 2024