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Planet 13 Florida’s Merger Vote Follows 34 DEA Registrations
Planet 13 Florida has federal registrations for all 34 of its medical marijuana dispensaries. The company announced the approvals on November 4, 2026, while its proposed companywide merger with Vireo Growth still awaits a December 10 shareholder vote. The stores got their federal papers before…
Massachusetts Cannabis Vote Keeps Adult-Use Shops Open
Massachusetts voters rejected Question 8 on November 3, keeping licensed adult-use cannabis sales available to people 21 and older. As of November 4, the result has been called with counting still underway. The repeal’s proposed January 1, 2028 sales cutoff falls away, leaving customers their shops…
Cannabis Election Results Leave Two Hemp Deadlines Intact
The 2026 cannabis election results give Democrats control of the next House and Senate, preserve Massachusetts adult-use sales, and keep Idaho’s voter-initiative route open. The November 12 and December 11 federal hemp deadlines remain in place. The outgoing Congress holds the power to change those…
Florida Marijuana Vote Puts Cruz’s Brownie Joke to the Test
Ted Cruz picked a liberal uncle for his joke about who would miss an election for a free pot brownie. The Florida marijuana vote offers a better casting call. In 2024, at least 1,072,961 Floridians voted for Donald Trump and for legal weed on the same ballot. You can count that many without asking…
Minnesota Medical Cannabis Shop on DEA List Faces Denial
The Drug Enforcement Administration wants to deny federal registration to In-Dispensary, a Minnesota medical cannabis shop. Yet the Minneapolis shop’s application number appears on DEA’s November 2, 2026, list of businesses that filed on time. A distributor looking up its customer can find a…
California Cannabis Compliance for a 19% Jar Listed at 24%
Suppose a shopper reserves flower at 24% total THC. The jar waiting at pickup says 19%. Take that listing down long enough to match the jar to its batch report. If the shelf has the right flower and the menu has yesterday’s number, fix the menu and let the shopper decide whether they still want…
Fernway Vape Pen or Cart? Count the Terpenes in Each Tank
A full-gram Fernway cartridge held about 40.8 milligrams of terpenes, the compounds behind much of weed’s smell. A little Traveler held about 12.6 milligrams, even though its oil tested higher by percentage. Those estimates come from two New York batches of Red Headed Stranger and the fill weight…
Halloween Candy Strain and the Story Behind That 31.3% Test
It was Halloween Special that tested at 31.3% total THC in Arkansas. Its grower names the parents as Halloween Candy and Greasy Runtz. You’ll also find a Halloween Candy strain in a three-seed tin that promises grape and honey. The grower doesn’t say whether its Candy plant came from that seed…
280E for Growers: Can Cohen’s Bill Pay for $10 Off a Case?
Could an adult-use grower give a buyer $10 off a case if Rep. Steve Cohen’s marijuana bill became law? On the 80-case order below, the farm would come up just $2 short. Cohen introduced the bill October 29. As of November 2, 2026, today’s grower still has to price that order under the old tax…
Inside a Ceramic Vape Cartridge With a Steel Center Post
A ceramic vape cartridge can have a steel tube running right down the middle of the oil. The ceramic part is often the little porous core that feeds oil to the heater. Some carts carry ceramic up through the center post and mouthpiece, too. To see where metal meets oil, start with the post and…
Where to Buy Marijuana in Massachusetts With an Out-of-State Card
Bring a valid government photo ID to a Massachusetts adult-use dispensary if you’re 21 or older. Your home-state medical card alone won’t get you through the medical door. Massachusetts does make an exception for some people receiving cancer treatment, palliative care or end-of-life care in the…
Dispensary Marketing When 60 Jars Earn What 30 Used To
Cut a $40 jar to $32 for 7/10 and watch what happens to the money you keep. If the jar costs you $20 and you usually sell 30, you need to sell 50 at the holiday price just to make the same $600. Put an extra $120 shift on the floor and it takes 60. ... Read more
Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Can Sell Stock They Can’t Buy
Suppose a grower who never filed for federal registration has two cases from one harvest. Your medical dispensary took one on October 29. If your shop qualifies as a timely federal applicant and is still awaiting a decision, it can keep selling that case under its state license. The grower needs…
Trump Bill Maher Pothead Jab Only Fits a Daily Smoker
On October 25, Donald Trump called Bill Maher a “major POTHEAD” on Truth Social and said weed is “very bad for his health.” For daily users, the research backs him: 25% higher odds of a heart attack and 42% higher odds of a stroke. Maher says he has never smoked every day, and nobody has ... Read…
NY Cannabis Tax Raised $390 Million. Grants Got $5 Million.
New York’s cannabis tax adds 13% to every adult-use purchase at the register, 9% for the state and 4% for the local government, and distributors pay another 9% when they sell to the store. From 2023 through 2025 those taxes brought in $390 million. The fund promised to hard-hit neighborhoods has…
Halloween Strain Picks for 9 PM, 10:30 and After Midnight
The best Halloween strain depends on the hour, so pick three. Ghost Train Haze opens the night with a fast, heady lift at a reported 19% THC. Pumpkin Spice carries the middle with a happy, creative, apple-sweet hybrid high. Death Star, an indica-leaning Sour Diesel cross near 19%, closes it out…
Hemp Ban Update: Griffith’s Budget-Bill Fix Still Needs 60 Votes
No, the federal hemp ban hasn’t moved. It still starts December 11, and nothing Congress has passed as of October 28 changes that. What’s new is a plan: Rep. Morgan Griffith, the Virginia Republican who chairs the House health subcommittee, wants his bill to regulate hemp THC instead of banning it…
GMO Weed Is a Garlic Strain While 4 Hemp Lines Got Modified
GMO weed almost always means the GMO strain, also sold as Garlic Cookies: a heavy, indica-leaning cross of Girl Scout Cookies and Chemdawg that smells like garlic frying in diesel. Breeders made it with pollen and patience, the same way they made every strain on the menu. The letters come from the…
Will the Hemp Ban Affect Dispensaries? 4 Ways States Answer
The weed behind a dispensary counter stays put on December 11. It sells under a state cannabis license and never claimed to be hemp. The shelf down the street is what moves. Federal law caps hemp at 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container, and each state decides whether that shelf moves into…
Nevada Cannabis Tax Swap Hangs on $1.31 Growers Could Keep
Nothing changes at a Nevada register yet. Lawmakers are weighing a swap: kill the 15% tax growers pay when they first sell weed wholesale, then raise the 10% retail tax you pay at checkout to somewhere between 12% and 15%. In Clark County that would push the combined rate from about 18.4% to as…
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