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HIGH TIMES HOSTAGE SITUATION: RAW CEO EXPLODES AT ANY MENTION OF ‘BOOF DU JOUR’ AS STAFF ARE FORCED TO EAT PAPERS IN FRONT OF THE BOARD

By Boof du Jour - The Only Publication Josh Can’t Roll Up and Smoke The resurrection of High Times was supposed to be wholesome. A comeback story. A phoenix rising from 30 years of unpaid invoices and whatever that Reg A scam fever dream was supposed to be. Instead, the once-iconic brand has reportedly devolved into a workplace so unstable it makes Vice look like a Fortune 500 development camp. Sources inside the RAW-powered High Times reboot describe an atmosphere best su

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Hemp’s Last Stand: Congress Accidentally Nukes a Whole Industry Because They Don’t Know What the Hell a Cannabinoid Is

Congress didn’t tighten hemp rules — they accidentally carpet-bombed the entire industry. With one sloppy amendment, they killed Delta-8, THCA, minor cannabinoids, and most CBD products. Boof du Jour breaks down the federal panic attack that turned hemp into contraband overnight.

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A polished corporate CBD executive in a blazer sits in an interrogation room surrounded by “THC-Free” bottles taped like evidence. The wall behind him reads “RICO,” scrawled across an old hemp marketing poster.

Civil RICO for Dummies: How a Supreme Court Case Just Made Every CBD Brand a Crime Family

The Supreme Court just made the hemp industry’s worst nightmare come true: mislabeling “THC-Free” can now count as racketeering. Boof du Jour breaks down how a mislabeled bottle turned every CBD brand into a crime syndicate with better stationery.

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A Curio Wellness manager stands in front of the camera as a Greenlight sales floor is slowly transformed with a beige tone and stale design elements. The vibe is sterile and awkward — a visual eulogy for weed culture.

From Gas to Gratitude Journals: A Trap House Rebrand

Curio Wellness, Maryland’s corporate mindfulness brand, just bought Missouri’s loudest weed shops and is repainting the trap-house vibe into taupe. Boof du Jour covers the culture clash between real weed people and the PowerPoint prophets trying to fix what wasn’t broken.

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Photojournalistic image showing a MoCann Trade lawyer collecting cannabis license applications from small Missouri business owners, while behind a MoCann-branded curtain, corporate executives secretly alter and claim the licenses — symbolizing corruption in Missouri’s cannabis equity program.

MoCann, Mo’ Problems: The Lawyer Who Built the Loopholes

Missouri’s cannabis industry didn’t just eat itself — it hired its own lawyer to cook the corpse. Meet Eric Walter, general counsel for the Missouri Cannabis Trade Association (MoCann Trade). The same guy who helped draft Missouri’s 2022 cannabis amendment and shaped the so-called “social equity” program is now the centerpiece of the state’s latest corruption circus — writing 22 of the contracts that regulators just called predatory and used to revoke licenses. You can’t spe

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Indonesian police display boxes of cannabis gummies labeled “869 grams” at a press conference, highlighting the absurdity of Jarred Shaw’s arrest and the country’s harsh drug laws.

Cop Math: How 132 Gummies Turn Into “Almost a Kilo” — and Maybe a Death Sentence

132 cannabis gummies. $400 in value. 869 grams on the police scale. A U.S. basketball player in Jakarta now faces life or death because of “Cop Math” — the global farce where a box of candy weighs more than human rights.

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Eaze dispensary reopening in San Francisco with a sad ribbon-cutting — tiny crowd clapping, delivery driver holding a “cash only” sign, and novelty scissors from Spirit Halloween — symbolizing the failed comeback after bankruptcy.

Eaze 2.0: From Billion-Dollar Hype to Haight Street Hospice

Eaze was once the “Uber of weed.” After bankruptcy and a fire sale, the brand has reappeared in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. But the comeback feels less like a rebirth and more like a hospice wing for a unicorn that investors already buried.

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Massachusetts town hall chaos as residents debate a ballot petition to end the $1.6B adult-use cannabis market, with protest signs and petitions visible.

Massachusetts Wants to Cancel Weed: $1.6 Billion on the Ballot

Massachusetts just certified a ballot petition to nuke its $1.6B adult-use cannabis industry. If it makes the ballot, every dispensary, cultivator, and brand in the state could be gone overnight. Welcome to the dumbest economic experiment since prohibition.

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