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Mfused's new LIVE line is numbered, limited, and gone once it's gone
The brand's latest vape collection runs strain-true live resin or live rosin through a proprietary blend — and once a release retires, it's not coming back.
1w ago · 3 min read
A THC/CBD capsule just aced a real dementia trial — nearly 9 in 10 patients improved
The NIA-backed LiBBY trial found a 2mg THC / 100mg CBD formulation significantly cut agitation in late-stage dementia patients versus placebo — and the gap widened the longer patients stayed on it.
1w ago · 5 min read
The DEA hearing wraps tomorrow and nobody gets a mic for closing arguments
Three weeks of testimony in an Arlington courtroom end July 15 — but instead of a dramatic finish, both sides just file paperwork and wait for a judge to read it.
1w ago · 5 min read
A former Homeland Security chief just told Congress to let the hemp THC ban stand
Chad Wolf, who ran DHS under Trump's first term, is lobbying lawmakers to not touch the scheduled recriminalization — framing it as a national security issue, not a hemp industry one.
1w ago · 4 min read
Ascend Wellness is next in line for the reverse-split-to-uplist playbook
Shareholders vote August 28 on a split as wide as 1-for-50, the same move Curaleaf and Trulieve just ran to get onto a major U.S. exchange.
1w ago · 4 min read
The first World Cup with legal weed didn't go how anyone expected
Seattle dispensaries braced for a green wave of soccer tourists — instead they got window-shoppers, a few curious Australians, and one budtender calling their own shop a "stoner zoo."
1w ago · 5 min read
Trulieve's coming to Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio this fall
The Florida MSO is opening three medical dispensaries in Texas this September under the state's Compassionate Use Program.
1w ago · 4 min read
Only two weed companies made Time's Best Companies list — you can guess who
Trulieve and Green Thumb Industries are the lone cannabis names on Time's America's Best Companies 2026 ranking of 1,000 U.S. employers.
1w ago · 4 min read
Virginia may have accidentally decriminalized weed for a year — nobody planned this
A budget-bill drafting mix-up briefly left Virginia's cannabis penalties in legal limbo, and state police, lawmakers, and prosecutors spent the week arguing over what the law actually says.
1w ago · 5 min read
We checked menus in every legal market we track for "Toad" — it's on nearly 750 dispensary shelves
One phenotype, selected out of 30 seeds in a North Hollywood grow room in 2021, is now sitting on shelves at 474 dispensaries across 14 states. Here's where.
1w ago · 5 min read
Tilray just shipped its first medical cannabis product into Panama
A CBD oral solution made in Portugal is now sitting on pharmacy shelves in Panama City, and it's the clearest sign yet of where the next wave of MSO growth is actually coming from.
1w ago · 4 min read
San Francisco just voted to let you eat a sandwich at your dispensary lounge
The Board of Supervisors cleared cannabis cafes on a 7-4 first vote, teeing up food, tea, and live comedy inside consumption lounges that used to be sales-only.
1w ago · 4 min read