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Every nongovernment participant selected for the DEA's rescheduling hearing opposed reform. By the time the record closed, one had undercut a central part of his side's case, another had reportedly conceded the key statutory point, and the opposition's strongest scientist had exposed the legal question likely to shape what comes next.

Four scientists packed a matched set of cones and cylinder joints with the same flower and burned them on a machine tuned to puff like a real cannabis consumer, not a cigarette tester. The machine pulled statistically the same total THC and terpenes from both. What changed was the pacing: cones packed more into each puff, finished sooner, and came out more consistent batch to batch.

Timothy Olyphant arrived at Higher Ground's Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso in full form, disputing his own quotes and joking about bailing for better numbers. Then he revealed he'd taken half an edible before taping. "It's like microdosing," he said. "That's why this thing is really singing."

We asked our community for their best cannabis photography. These 25 shots, from frosty macros to alien-looking trichomes, are what came back.

B-Real took INSANE national with a hemp gummy. Rachel Wolfson launched Lobos. Cann released its first zero-THC drinks and got behind a bill that would rewrite the rule entirely. Three bets, one deadline.

She's helping fight a federal ban on hemp THC drinks. But Dawson says the legal weed industry left the people who built it broke and shut out.

Rosario Dawson's father took some of his cancer medications off the pile, and a low-dose THC drink was one of the things he used to manage how he felt. Now she's fighting a change in federal law that would clear most of those drinks from hemp shelves this November, and making the case that the mildest product in cannabis reached the people who needed it most.

Senate leaders released a funding bill that would push most of the federal hemp deadline to December 11. Cannabinoids the plant cannot make would still lose federal hemp status on November 12, both chambers have to agree on identical text and state restrictions move on their own clocks.

At the 2026 California Cannabis Awards, Dale Gieringer asked how many people in the room had been arrested for medical marijuana. Hands went up. Then came the medals. Inside a night that closed a thirty-year loop, plus the full Golden Bear list and the country's first state-sanctioned home grow champion.

Liam Wesley Goodman drew fifty years of cannabis culture into one colored-pencil mural, 36 faces in 16 days. Around it, five photographers and illustrators from LA to Uruguay to Italy show the plant the way only High Times sees it.