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Legal Weed, Illegal Weed, and Nobody Can Tell Which Is Which

Hawaii yanked hemp THC off the shelves this morning, North Carolina says cannabis odor still justifies a search even when it’s lawful, & Massachusetts might actually uninstall legalization.

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Aug 16, 2026
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A Cop Smells Weed. It’s Legal Hemp. He Can Still Search Your Car.

Here’s a genuinely strange question for a Sunday morning: what even is marijuana anymore?

In Hawaii, people were buying hemp-derived THC at regular stores until this week, when the shelves went empty over a testing fight. In North Carolina, hemp is legal and marijuana isn’t, they smell iden…

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