Javier Hasse

Rick Ross lights up for High Times and talks control, the black market, dispensary weed he can't stand, turning 50, and why he never sold his cannabis life like a gimmick. "We want the best dope on the planet."

A 2018 loophole built a multibillion-dollar industry. Congress moved to close it last year. Now the Senate has bought hemp 29 more days, eleven Democrats voted against the reprieve, Rand Paul voted for it, and the White House has already told senators not to ask again.

Air India flight AI2379 dropped roughly 300 feet over the Odisha coast on August 4, injuring 24 people. Its captain later tested positive for cannabis, and that became the story. What most of the coverage buried: the first officer was at the controls, the captain was standing behind his seat, and Airbus says all three hydraulic systems lost pressure while the elevators and ailerons went unresponsive for about four seconds.

Every CBD-for-athletes pitch has sold recovery. A report on 47,522 patients who train and use medical cannabis points somewhere else entirely.

MoreBetter tracked 4,516 people across 36 hemp THC beverages for three weeks each. On days participants drank one, their modeled probability of also drinking alcohol fell from 22.9% to 10.9%, significant for 23 of the 36 products and moving the same direction in every case. Fifty days after the study ended, 63% of those surveyed said they were still drinking less. None of the 36 products would clear the federal cap arriving in November.

The Budget Lab at Yale estimates a potency-based federal excise tax could raise $57.9 billion over ten years, or $111.3 billion if every state legalizes.

Yale proposes a cannabis tax based on THC percentages. The Budget Lab at Yale estimates a potency-based federal excise tax could raise $57.9

The government's 50-page closing argument asks Judge Derek Julius to "expeditiously recommend" moving marijuana to Schedule III. Its closing section attacks the credibility of nearly every witness who opposed the change and quotes several of them making the medical case anyway. The DEA's own pharmacologist appears once. The opposition's brief cites her 25 times. Plus: the judge's transcript-correction order, filed Thursday.

10% of Republicans smoke cannabis and 24% call its effect very negative. Among adults 18 to 34 it's 27% and 8%. Where use is highest, condemnation is lowest, and the reverse. The one thing Gallup's crosstabs actually show, and the several things they don't.

Energy prices are on the rise after Sunni militant fighters started attacking and capturing several cities in Iraq. Oil prices could exceed $150 per barrel if Iraqi production is completely lost. BMO Capital Markets Equity Derivatives Strategist Max Breier was