🇺🇸 Free the Green: A Letter to President Donald J. Trump An Open Plea from the American People & the Cannabis Family Legalize It President Trump, It’s time to Free the Green — to remove marijuana from the federal Schedule I classification, where it has been trapped since the Nixon era. A Law Without a Vote Few Americans realize that marijuana’s placement as a Schedule I drug — supposedly with “no medical value and a high potential for abuse” — was never voted on by Congress . It was assigned there in 1970 under the Controlled Substances Act by executive direction, intended as a temporary classification until a scientific commission could study the plant and make recommendations. That commission, known as the Shafer Commission , did complete its work — and in 1972, it recommended that marijuana should not be criminalized and should be removed from Schedule I entirely. The findings were ignored. Politics won. Science lost. And for over fifty years, that mi...
🔗 Blockchain & Buds: How Digital Ledgers Are Redefining Trust in Cannabis From seed integrity to consumer confidence — why immutable records matter Blockchain and Buds By Tenn Canna Publishing — Trust is currency. In an industry still shedding stigma and building standards, blockchain technology offers something more reliable than marketing copy or glossy lab reports : an immutable, auditable history. For cannabis — a product with medical stakes, regulatory scrutiny, and global ambitions — digital ledgers could be the backbone of legitimacy. 🌱 What blockchain actually fixes Blockchain isn’t a magic wand, but it solves specific problems: tampering, fragmented records , and disputed provenance . When entries (harvest times, lab tests, transfers) are anchored to a distributed ledger , nobody can quietly rewrite the past. That matters for recalls, medical patients, export compliance, and brand reputation. “ Proof of origin...