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Consumers and patients purchased more than $250 million in legal cannabis products during the first full year of retail sales at state-licensed businesses, according to figures released Tuesday by the Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management. More details in the comments.

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For the first time ever, The Old Farmer’s Almanac added cannabis to its planting calendar.. and it didn’t stop there.

Alongside it came a quiet expansion of medicinal flowers, native plants, and lesser known edible perennials that have been feeding, healing, and supporting people long before lawn culture and chemical shortcuts took over.

This isn’t just about one plant making the list. It’s about a broader acknowledgment that useful plants matter. The kind you don’t see stacked on pallets at big box stores. The ones that attract pollinators, rebuild soil, offer food, medicine, or come back year after year without asking much in return. Plants that were once dismissed as weeds. Plants that never stopped working, even when we stopped paying attention.

When an institution rooted in tradition starts widening its lens, it’s a reminder that the garden has always been bigger than we were told. And maybe, just maybe, we’re remembering how to grow with intention again.

Scientists weren't just observing cell death. They were watching something far more significant: metastasis prevention.

CBD and THC, the primary compounds in cannabis, didn't simply attack ovarian cancer cells. They disrupted their ability to form colonies—the critical process that allows cancer to spread and become lethal.

Ovarian cancer is among the deadliest malignancies precisely because it metastasizes aggressively, colonizing tissue before detection. By the time symptoms appear, it's often widespread. Survival rates plummet once it spreads.

What researchers observed was groundbreaking: these plant compounds interfered with cancer's colonization mechanism. Cells couldn't organize. Couldn't replicate efficiently. Couldn't establish the foothold required for metastasis.

A plant that humans have cultivated for millennia—dismissed, criminalized, stigmatized—might contain molecules that prevent one of medicine's most devastating cancers from spreading.

This isn't treatment-ready yet. It's early-stage research, laboratory observations, preliminary data. Clinical trials remain years away. Dosing, delivery methods, side effects—all unknown.

But the door didn't just crack open. It swung wide.

For decades, cannabis research was legally strangled, scientifically suppressed. Now that restrictions are lifting, discoveries are accelerating. We're finding therapeutic potential that was always there, just forbidden from investigation.

Ovarian cancer slowed by compounds from a plant. Not engineered in labs. Not synthetically designed. Just extracted from nature and observed doing what prohibition prevented us from discovering decades ago.

The question isn't whether plants hold medical answers. It's how many cures we delayed by refusing to look.

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Gov. Walz signs cannabis cooperative agreement with Red Lake Nation The agreement allows the Red Lake Band to sell its product at state-licensed cannabis businesses across Minnesota.