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Marijuana Moment

U.S. cannabis-policy reform advocacy (issue-focused, pro-legalization)

Owned byPrivately owned by its founder and editor, Tom Angell. It is an independent company with a small staff and has no large parent company or outside owner that I could find.
FundingMainly reader and supporter contributions, including Patreon, plus advertising and sponsorships from cannabis-industry companies. It also sells an email newsletter. Angell has said he has a minority stake in MassRoots, a cannabis tech company that employed him earlier.
On the administrationmixed

Background

Marijuana Moment launched in 2017 as a newsletter and website covering marijuana and drug policy news. Angell is a longtime drug-reform activist who founded the nonprofit Marijuana Majority and worked at MassRoots before starting the outlet. It is a small team based in Brooklyn, New York, and it is independent rather than part of a larger media group. Its revenue comes from reader support, advertising and sponsors, and it discloses Angell's MassRoots stake in its About page. Its reporting is detailed and mostly sourced to public records, legislation and official statements. Its choice of stories and framing reflect a pro-reform viewpoint, since it treats legalization and rescheduling as goals and covers opponents mainly through their effect on those goals. In Trump's second term it has followed the executive order on rescheduling, the Justice Department's April 2026 move of state-regulated medical marijuana to Schedule III, and the ongoing hearing on broader rescheduling. Its headlines have described the administration as moving forward on rescheduling, and also as slow, with consumer support falling and a House committee voting to block the change. Because I could not review its full record, this profile rests on the About page, third-party descriptions and a sample of recent headlines.

Sources

  1. About Marijuana Moment
  2. Marijuana Moment — Media Bias & Ownership (Perspectify)
  3. Cannabis policy of the second Trump administration (Wikipedia)
  4. Federal Marijuana Rescheduling Announced By Department Of Justice, Months After Trump Executive Order
  5. Trump Is Losing Support From Marijuana Consumers As Rescheduling Process Sees More Delays, Poll Shows

Profile compiled 2026-11-07; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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