WeedPress Has Tracked the RFRA Front Since 2009 — Now Google Scholar Is Sending Readers

WeedPress Has Tracked the RFRA Front Since 2009 — Now Google Scholar Is Sending Readers

After more than fifteen years covering religious liberty, cannabis litigation, and the federalism problems created by Employment Division v. Smith, WeedPress is reaching a wider legal audience.

By Jason Karimi | WeedPress

April 10, 2026

WeedPress has consulted with and reported on Religious Freedom Restoration Act litigants this year in Alabama, Hawaii, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Utah, California, Arkansas, South Dakota, Iowa, and Michigan.

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That did not happen by accident. It is the product of years spent documenting one of the most overlooked fault lines in American law: what happens when religious liberty, cannabis prohibition, and federalism collide.

Since 2009, WeedPress has stayed on this beat with unusual consistency. Long before larger outlets paid attention, this publication was documenting the doctrinal confusion, the institutional evasion, and the structural obstacles that continue to define religious-cannabis litigation across the country. These cases are not just about individual claimants. They are about whether the legal system still offers a meaningful path for conscience claims, equal treatment, and redress of grievances when disfavored religious exercise is involved.

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At the center of that story is Employment Division v. Smith — still the essential starting point for understanding how religious-protection doctrine was narrowed, why legislative responses like RFRA became necessary, and why federalism continues to complicate meaningful remedies. WeedPress has long treated Smith as the baseline case for understanding both the collapse of strong protection and the unfinished struggle to rebuild it.

Now the audience is broadening. Google Scholar is sending traffic to WeedPress. That matters. It means this work is being found not only by readers and reform advocates, but by litigants, researchers, and serious legal audiences looking for analysis that takes the structure of these disputes seriously.

For more than fifteen years, WeedPress has documented the religious-freedom fight others ignored. As RFRA litigation continues to spread across the states, that record is no longer easy to dismiss.

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