We still incarcerate people for marijuana. www.justice.gov/usao-ndia/pr...

Last night, Sen. Rand Paul, who unsuccessfully sought to strike hemp ban language from the government spending bill, told Kentucky hemp interests that he was considering legislative language that would return the issue to the states. www.law360.com/cannabis/art...

Very proud of this one and I hope you will listen

How can I be expected to take the New Yorker seriously.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

Hemp industry advocates are pledging to use the one-year gap between enactment and implementation of the government funding agreement, which effectively recriminalized most hemp-derived THC products, to craft new regulatory legislation that stops short of a full ban.

www.law360.com/cannabis/art... The government funding agreement approved by both chambers of Congress includes a provision that would effectively recriminalize most THC products derived from hemp.

Does anyone know what Cuomo's dad did for a living?

LOL. "who was most recently managing editor at The Free Press." Perfect. No notes.

Two main conclusions from this Fuentes-Carlson interview: 1) MAGA has tried to keep Fuentes out of mainstream circles for years—and knows it failed. The movement’s shift to increasingly radical rhetoric, especially in TPUSA circles, was in part them trying to compete for the youth’s attention. 1/n

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Not alcohol though

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

“Insanely ironic Weiss is whining about leakers when her rag leaked audio of our 9 am editorial over Dokoupil, and now she expects it to be a safe place after rendering it unsafe herself?” one CBS News staffer told me this morning about Bari's leaker hunt. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Monday to address "a four-way circuit conflict" over whether it is legal to prevent users of drugs — including marijuana, which the majority of states have legalized in some fashion — from possessing firearms. www.law360.com/cannabis/art...

Federal prosecutors have asked a Maine federal judge to bar any discussion of medical or recreational marijuana legalization in the state from an upcoming trial of persons accused of illegally growing cannabis. www.law360.com/cannabis/art...

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility. He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

Alcohol has a.) no currently accepted medical use and b.) irrefutably, a potential for abuse. Every new study that comes out seems to say there is no "safe" amount a person can consume. Anyway, I'll get back to reporting on cannabis, a Schedule I substance. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

If someone starts off talking about the "temperature" of American politics, odds are you're about to hear something incredibly vapid.

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

One of these is not the same. "Recount familiar partisan complaints"

"Trump has pardons and tanks... What do you have?" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago. He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.” “How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Pennsylvania's Justices also affirmed the state's regulation requiring medical marijuana products go through two independent labs for safety testing, reasoning the law's emphasis on safety lets the state set a higher bar than just "one or more" tests (via @samreisman.bsky.social):

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Dutch late night TV has its take

The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today. Charlie Kirk was no exception.

Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

A new wave of liberal Zionist criticism of the Israeli government rings hollow without accountability for the genocide, @simonerzim.bsky.social writes. In this piece, she explores what real teshuva would look like within the Jewish world.

The Times saw the mayor's people handing out bribes in public last month and refused to write about it till after somebody else broke a related story www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...

Just in: The 11th Circuit rules that a policy disarming cannabis users is inconsistent with the nation's history of gun laws because they are not "comparatively similar to either felons or dangerous individuals." media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

The DEA has transmitted a request to loosen federal restrictions on psilocybin, the main compound in psychoactive mushrooms, to federal health officials for a scientific and medical analysis, according to emails reviewed by Law360. My latest: www.law360.com/cannabis/art...

Just in: Housing Works Cannabis Co. and a number of other businesses affected by the New York Office of Cannabis Management's proximity announcement last month today filed a lawsuit against NYS regulators. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...

A 2nd Circuit decision, finding that the Constitution's dormant commerce clause applies to the federally illegal marijuana industry, further constricts states' ability to implement social equity programs intended to help those harmed by past cannabis prohibition. www.law360.com/articles/237...

Today in @thenation.com, we have another piece by @mohamhawish.bsky.social that's as beautiful as it is heartbreaking. This one's about the pain of being exiled from your homeland, possibly forever. Anything Mohammed writes is a must-read. So please read this. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

A split Second Circuit panel on Tuesday ruled that, despite marijuana's federal illegality, the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from privileging their own residents when awarding licenses to cannabis businesses. www.law360.com/articles/237...

I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.

Just in: In a split decision, the 2nd Circuit has ruled that the dormant commerce clause applies to marijuana and that NY's licensure program granting special consideration to those with an in-state conviction was likely unconstitutional protectionism. assets.law360news.com/2376000/2376...

A Manhattan federal judge has ruled that New York City public health and safety officials were within their authority to issue shutdown orders to restaurants that served kava, a federally unregulated psychoactive plant derivative. www.law360.com/cannabis/art...

Two weeks ago, CPJ reported on Anas Al-Sharif getting threats from the IDF to cease reporting. He didn’t, and now he’s dead. He’s not the only journalist getting threats from the IDF. We partnered with @theintercept.com to document this horrific practice.

New York cannabis retailers facing the revocation of their licenses due to a recent destabilizing shift in regulatory interpretation are urging Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state Legislature to take immediate action to ensure the continuity of their businesses. www.law360.com/articles/237...

The New York Times clarifies that a starving child in Gaza also needs medical care: defector.com/the-new-york...