WEEKLY ZINE VOL 83

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Weekly Digital Magazine designed by Erin Cullison and Dustin Hoxworth

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Weekly zine vol. 83

Pg. 4: Corporate Prohibition Begins

By Dustin Hoxworth

Pg. 8: Inesa Ponomariovaite’s Journey From Adversity To Triumph

Pg. 12: Market Report - Hoodie Analytics

By Bethany Niebauer & Erin Cullison

Pg. 14: CannaHumans w/ Pete Swan

Pg. 24: The Hotbox w/ Stever Riparip

By Dustin Hoxworth

Pg. 30: Duke & The Heat Wave

By Lucas Indrikovs

Pg. 34: Buds & Buyers Bash

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Pg. 18: Employee of the Quarter: Lady Barrios Pg. 40: FNM Launches “Voice of the Plant”

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Corporate Prohibition Has Begun Hemp is not the threat. Corruption is. Big Alcohol won and the people lost. We have one year to stop a national disaster. by dustin hoxworth

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merica just did what America always does when power feels threatened. It manufactured a “crisis,” hid behind the language of “protecting children,” and used that cover to gut a 30 billion dollar industry and cut off plant based medicine for millions of people who rely on hemp to survive. And the part that should make everyone’s blood boil is that this was not about safety. It was never about kids. It was never about public health. It was about control and the corporations that have built empires off pain, addiction, and monopoly.

Big Alcohol pushed for this because the truth is simple.

Their product is poison and the plant makes that obvious. Multi state operators pushed for this because they fear competition more than they love this culture.

Politicians pushed for this because they serve donors, not voters. And lobbyists pushed for this because suffering is profitable when you are paid to protect the powerful.

While all that happened, some parts of the cannabis industry clapped. They pointed at “gas station weed.”

They said “I told you so.” They celebrated prohibition because they believed it would strengthen their position personally or professionally. Anyone who cheers for government restriction of this plant is not fighting for patients or culture or community. They’re fighting for money and they should say that out loud. I could at least look at them as just being your typical greed driven douchecanoe, instead of a greedy lying douchecanoe. I digress...

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But here is something that America conveniently forgets. From the 1600s through the early 1800s, hemp was so essential that farmers could be fined or jailed for not growing it. This plant built ships, rope, paper, homes, livelihoods, and entire economies. The plant was not a threat. The plant was a foundation for sustainable food, fuel, and fiber. And yet here we are again.

Citizens forced into another battle against corrupt political forces and corporate giants who want to control the plant and the people who use it. America has a long, ugly tradition of siding with power over humanity. It’s a system built to elevate corporate greed, reinforce racial and economic inequity, and protect the interests of people who have no interest in the well being of the communities they govern.

Millions of Americans are living with the consequences of that system. A system that strips away healthcare access, erodes essential protections, and uses fear and misinformation to divide people while powerful interests cash in. The hemp ban is not an isolated event. It is part of a disgusting pattern where the same people who undermine healthcare, education, and basic human rights also cheer for policies that deny access to medicine that keeps children from seizing, veterans from spiraling, and families from breaking.

Here is the truth they desperately want to bury. Cannabis is hemp. Hemp is cannabis. Same plant, same history, same medicine. Anyone pretending otherwise is either uninformed or intentionally manipulating the public. This ban is not about protecting people, it’s about disabling them. It’s about removing autonomy. It’s about forcing dependence on the same corporate systems that profit from misery. And the clock has already started ticking. The hemp industry has 363 days to fix this.

One year minus a couple sunrises to organize, educate, mobilize, and defend the right to plant based healing. We’ve been here before. Legal cannabis did not begin with branding or investors or glossy dispensaries. It began with parents fighting for the right to give their children hemp based seizure medicine while the government told them no.

Their courage cracked open prohibition long before corporations showed up to monetize the culture built on struggle. Now it’s our turn, because this moment is not just about hemp, it’s about people’s right to choose wellness over pharmaceuticals. It’s about the right to grow a plant that built civilizations, and about refusing to let corporate power rewrite the story of this plant or the story of the people who depend on it.

Call this what it is - a coordinated attack on wellness, autonomy, small farmers, rural communities, veterans, caregivers, parents, patients, and anyone whose life is made possible by this plant. We will not sit quietly or sanitize this moment. We will not let the people who caused this pretend to be heroes. The countdown has begun and the fight is already here.

“Cannabis is hemp, hemp is cannabis, and taking this medicine away from the people is state sanctioned harm.”

1600s – 1800s: Hemp Is Mandatory Farmers in several colonies are required by law to grow hemp.

It is considered a vital national resource. In some regions, failure to grow hemp could result in fines or jail time. The plant is foundational to the economy, defense, and daily survival.

Early 1900s: Corporate Interests Target the Plant Timber, oil, and chemical companies begin funding propaganda campaigns to demonize hemp and cannabis. The goal is simple: eliminate a plant that threatens emerging industrial monopolies.

1937: The Marihuana Tax Act Racist politics, corporate lobbying, and media hysteria criminalize cannabis and cripple the hemp industry. The plant that built America is recast as a threat.

1970: The Controlled Substances Act Cannabis is placed in Schedule I, declared to have “no medical value,” despite global evidence to the contrary. This move cements prohibition and criminalizes millions.

2014: The First Crack in the Wall The Farm Bill allows pilot hemp programs, marking the first meaningful break in federal prohibition in nearly 80 years.

2018: The Hemp Revolution The Farm Bill fully legalizes hemp at the federal level.

Cannabinoid innovation explodes. Small farmers, rural communities, and independent businesses thrive. Millions gain access to products that improve their quality of life.

2022 – 2024: The Pressure Campaign Big Alcohol, pharmaceutical interests, and multi state operators lobby aggressively against hemp derived cannabinoids. Their goal is to eliminate competition while securing control over the cannabis market.

November 2025: The New Ban Passes Congress inserts hemp ban language into a must pass government funding bill. The measure drastically narrows the legal definition of hemp and criminalizes most hemp derived cannabinoids.

The public is told this is about “protecting children.”The reality is corruption, corporate capture, and the weaponization of fear.

Today: The People Respond The hemp industry has 363 days to fight back before the ban becomes fully enforced. Farmers, parents, veterans, patients, caregivers, community leaders, and independent media now move into defense mode.

The Countdown Has Begun History repeats itself. This is another pivot point. Another fight. Another moment where the people must protect the plant because the government will not.

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