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Legal Cannabis Hits $25B Tax Milestone!

While 2024 set a new annual record of $4.4 billion in state cannabis taxes, California's decision to raise rates from 15% to 19% exposes the death spiral threatening legal markets nationwide

The Intersection of LGBTQ+ Advocacy and Cannabis Legalization
Editorial

LGBTQ+ & Cannabis: Power Duo

From Stonewall to dispensary laws, queer advocacy helped legitimize cannabis as medicine and ignited a broader movement for justice, health, and dignity. Their impact is visible in today’s ongoing progress toward cannabis access and LGBTQ+ rights.

Meta's Censorship Circus: Cannabis and Psychedelics Face the Axe While Sex and Violence Get the Thumbs Up
Editorial

Meta's Circus: Drugs Censored, Sex Approved

Despite growing legalization and scientific support, Meta continues to target cannabis and psychedelics accounts with shadowbans and takedowns—while letting sexually explicit and violent content thrive unchecked on Instagram.

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Revelry Buyers' Club Proves New York’s Cannabis Industry Is Finally Hitting Its Stride

Three years after legalization, New York’s cannabis market is finally finding its footing — and Revelry Buyers’ Club continues to be the connective tissue helping to fuel its success.

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Death Blow: CA's Cannabis Tax

The Golden State just made it harder for cannabis businesses to survive — again. Here’s why this 26% tax hike is a gift to the illicit market.

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NY's Pot Industry: Wins, Woes, Next

Despite crossing $1 billion in sales, New York’s cannabis market reveals a fragile ecosystem where equity ambitions, high taxes, and regulatory drag threaten to blunt its full potential.

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Nevada’s First Cannabis Lounge Closes—And It’s a Symptom of a Bigger Problem

The closure of Nevada’s first state-licensed cannabis lounge, Smoke and Mirrors, highlights the crushing weight of regulation, taxes, and lack of banking support in legal cannabis. Here's what needs to change.

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Legal Weed, Legit?

New York State regulators are investigating some of America’s biggest cannabis companies after receiving complaints that they have been selling marijuana to New York dispensaries that comes from unauthorized sources or is grown out of state, an illegal practice that has been called the industry’s open secret.