Can The Feds Enforce The Newest THC Hemp Ban?

In November 2025, Congress passed a government-funding package that quietly rewrote the federal definition of hemp, closing the 2018 Farm Bill “intoxicating hemp” loophole.

When Chronic Pain Patients Join New Yorks Medical Cannabis Program Does Their Prescription Opioid Use Actually Go Down?

The JAMA Internal Medicine paper, titled “Medical Cannabis and Opioid Receipt Among Adults With Chronic Pain,” was led by Dr. Deepika Slawek and colleagues at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York.