Alright, you gravity-bong warriors and vape-pen prophets; spark up and strap in, because it’s time to burn down one of the biggest myths in weed lore. For years, cannabis culture has clung to the gospel of THC and CBD like stoners to a couch during a Planet Earth marathon. But...

Let’s face it, folks: summer in America is a goddamn nightmare. The cities turn into concrete ovens, teeming with sweaty, miserable bastards who’d sell their own mother for a blast of air conditioning. It’s enough to make any sane person flee to the great outdoors, seeking refuge in the last...

In the beginning, there was hash. Simple, hand-rubbed, and potent enough to knock the sandals off a Nepalese holy man. But this is America, and if there’s one thing we do well, it’s turning simple pleasures into unholy monstrosities of chrome and silicon, fueled by the twin demons of capitalism...

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You want the skinny on this CBD craze? Well buckle up and brace yourselves, because we’re going on one twisted voyage into the heart of cannabis country. They call it cannabidiol, but around these parts we just call it by its street name – CBD. This little botanical bombshell comes...

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Alright you tribe of freaks, let’s take a walk on the wild side, because the madhouse carnival known as festival season is upon us once again. That’s right, the sticky summer reunion of the chemically-enriched masses, where inhibitions are shucked like last year’s kandi bracelets and MDMA flows like manna...

Alright, let’s talk about this “munchies” phenomenon you filthy little potheads are so familiar with. For years, you baked Bettys have been stuffing your faces after getting ripped, blaming it on some spooky “craving” that science supposedly couldn’t explain. Well, the squares in lab coats out in Washington finally caught...

America’s hemp scene is under siege, man, caught in a bureaucratic bad trip that’s torching the 2018 Farm Bill’s righteous decree of legal hemp with 0.3% THC for all. This nationwide clampdown is strangling innovation, bleeding small businesses dry, and spitting on consumer freedom. Tennessee’s House Bill 1376 (HB1376), dropped...

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• farm bill
• government
• hb1376
• hemp industry
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• politics
• taxes
• Tennessee

Listen up, you little freaks. You want to know about THC, that wicked little molecule that sends your brain into the stratosphere? Well buckle up, because this is one wild ride. When you spark up that sweet Mary Jane and let those cannabinoids go hog wild in your lungs, you’re...

The Tennessee hemp industry, a cornerstone of economic growth and innovation, is under assault from several flawed bills: HB 1376/SB 1413 (the ABC Bill), HB 1148/SB 1236 (the THCA & THCP Ban Bill), and SB 763 (Vape Bill). These proposals aim to dismantle a thriving market, burden small businesses, and...

Chattanooga is officially Tennessee's "highest" city — but not in elevation. With 197 legal hemp shops licensed in Hamilton County, the Chattanooga area has the highest concentration of hemp shops per capita of any Tennessee city, data from the state's department of agriculture shows. That's 51 hemp shops per 100,000...

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• hemp industry
• Tennessee
• Times Free Press
• tourism

The road to Chattanooga was long, a fever-dream of billboards, churches, and trees bleeding into the Tennessee dusk. I had come chasing ghosts, whispers of a secret rendezvous between extraterrestrials and high-ranking government officials, the kind of story that could ruin a man or elevate him to myth. Somewhere between...