🇺🇸 Cannabis Industry Awaits Trump’s Reclassification Boost as DOJ Slow‑Walks Implementation

A new report says cannabis companies and investors expecting a surge from President Trump’s order to reclassify marijuana are growing frustrated as the Department of Justice continues to delay finalizing the rule, keeping the industry stuck outside mainstream banking and capital markets despite the promise of Schedule III status. Executives note that even with Trump’s directive, Attorney General Pam Bondi faces no deadline for issuing the final rule, leaving businesses waiting for access to traditional financing, credit‑card processing and U.S. stock exchanges, while investors warn that the industry cannot fully scale until federal clarity arrives. (New York Post)

🌿 DEA Quiz Quietly Acknowledges Teen Marijuana Use Has Declined as Legalization Expanded

A new DEA “Just Think Twice” drug‑education quiz acknowledges that youth cannabis use has fallen over the past several decades, directly contradicting long‑standing prohibitionist claims that legalization would drive more teens to use marijuana, with agency data showing past‑year use dropping from 15.8% to 7.6% among 8th graders, 28.7% to 15.6% among 10th graders and 34.7% to 25.7% among 12th graders between 1995 and 2025. The quiz notes that these figures come from the federal Monitoring the Future survey and align with research showing youth use tends to remain stable or decline in legal states, a trend advocates credit to regulated, age‑gated markets replacing illicit sellers and expanded public‑health education efforts. (Marijuana Moment)

🎰 Americans Now View Cannabis as More Morally Acceptable Than Gambling, New Poll Shows

A new Pew Research Center poll shows that 76 percent of Americans consider cannabis use either morally acceptable or not a moral issue, a higher level of acceptance than for gambling, pornography, abortion or homosexuality, with only 23 percent calling marijuana use morally wrong. The findings highlight how dramatically public attitudes have shifted as legalization has expanded nationwide, and they show that moral concerns persist more among Americans with lower levels of education, even as the U.S. diverges from many countries where a majority still views cannabis as immoral.

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🚬 Prospective Study Identifies Distinct Lung Cancer Pattern in Young Adults Who Smoke Both Cannabis and Tobacco

A new prospective French study highlighted by OncoDaily finds that young lung cancer patients who smoke both cannabis and tobacco show a distinct and more aggressive clinical profile compared with patients who smoke only tobacco, including higher rates of emphysema, worse gas exchange, and a greater prevalence of rare tumor subtypes such as small‑cell and sarcomatoid cancers. By validating exposure with hair toxicology rather than relying solely on self‑reporting, researchers showed that dual smoking is common in patients diagnosed before age 60 and noted that cannabis smoke contains carcinogens and induces bronchial changes linked to cancer, underscoring that combustion‑based cannabis use may carry poorly appreciated oncologic risks when combined with tobacco. (OncoDaily)

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