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Interesting new one from the Mahavishnu - see link. Released 14  November on vinyl and CD but the latter is nearly $35 albeit for an SACD. Never heard of the label but I guess this is because it's a movie score.  https://www.impexrecords.com/john-mclaughlin-music-for-abandoned-heights-180g-33rpm-lp/#:~:text=Experience guitar legend John McLaughlin's stunning 2025,Music for Abandoned Heights%2C on HQ-180g vinyl.

This is odd... when someone on the Hoffman forums asked the LP mastering engineer, Matt Lutthans, whether this was digital or analog, instead of, "We mastered this from a 24/192 digital master" we got this word salad: Here's the deal. There's digital, and then there's digital. Cutting an album from a commercial CD, or from some sort of (often poorly) pre-mastered, processed digital file....that's one thing, and it's generally subpar; nearly always quite bad. Fine. We know about those.   This is not one of those.   In this particular case, the performances were recorded on an Ampex 600, if I recall correctly, and yes, the recordings are mono. A set of tapes has been in Jim Wilke's collection for all these decades, and those two reels were physically shipped to me for mastering. (Blue Note now owns and archives these original tape reels.)   As the production team and I started going through the contents of the tapes, we discovered a problem: One song was absent from the tapes I received, but a flat, existing, archival digital transfer existed for that track, and it sounded fine, so we included it -- and the album is better for it.   For the tracks that were on the analog reels: They were transferred by me, personally, at The Mastering Lab at 24/192, and those files remained UNPROCESSED and untweaked throughout the digital steps for LP production. (The digital work on those tracks consisted of flat editing for increased continuity/flow ONLY.) What you hear on the LP is those flat 24/192 files, edited slightly, no compression/limiting, "no nothing," run through the tube-based analog TML console for live-during-cutting EQ, then into the all-tube cutting system. (The track that came from an existing digital transfer required a little bit of in-the-box EQ to get its tonality to match with the newly-made transfers of the other tracks, but it was minimal, and final "artistic decision" EQ was still done on the TML analog console for that track, as with the others.) I used to really respect Matt's work but this explanation from him on this has really messed that up. "There's digital and then there's digital"?? No Matt, this is digital. Which is not a bad thing in my book, but it's still a thing. Is Blue Note trying to replicate the Mobile Fidelity fiasco? If it's a digital master, just fess up.

Agreed. These products are unregulated which poses issues on several fronts, public health being a biggie. I have friends that use weed and shroom products that display self testing results, and these friends haven't had any issues. Those products are purchased at higher end boutique stores and not the quickie mart. That's why I'm wondering what products are being used in the linked article, and if there's any studies cited.  That still has a paywall unfortunately. Maybe it works for others? 

When I started college in 1970 there was a sign in my dormitory which explained that marijuana had now become much more powerful than before and warning that the new super weed was causing 'bad trips'.  55 years and the supposed authorities are still trotting out the same canards and  tropes!  For some people, using cannabis is a problem and they get into all the same gyrations as people stuck in food addictions, etc.  For most it's not that big a deal.  My advice: stay away from those vape cartridges.  You have no way of knowing what's in there and people adulterate them with things like vitamin E which is toxic to inhale like that.  Dry herb vaporizers are good.