Sports franchises have rarely smiled upon drug use. Even drugs that enhance our bodies -- albeit in unhealthy ways -- have been banned from major sports leagues. Of course, cannabis was thrown into the “drugs are bad” bucket long...
If you’ve been using cannabis for a while, you’re likely familiar with the most prominent cannabinoids in cannabis: THC and CBD. But did you know that cannabis contains over 100 other minor cannabinoids that all promote different effects within...
Marijuana naysayers have long opined that smoking pot is harmful to the unborn -- be it “damaged chromosomes” in sperm, or infertility, or “brain damaged babies.” Of course, most of this dates back to the early unscientific, bigoted days...
During a crisis there is unfortunately the side effect of a lot of bad information. It’s difficult enough to know what’s really going on when experts are also dealing with a new set of variables, and COVID-19...
The shift away from tossing people in jail en masse keeps happening, and now it’s Oregon’s turn to try something new. Measure 110 would decriminalize all drugs in the state, making it essentially a misdemeanor to possess them. In...
Politics can be messy, as Americans have learned while seeing political football in the form of COVID relief. A couple of cannabis bills are also being impacted by the politics of compromise, but in one case the benefits could...
Bees are in trouble. Scientists have seen colonies collapsing since the mid-2000s, calling it Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). In case you didn’t know, without bees, we are in big trouble. Yeah, nobody likes getting stung by a...
Thailand has been a pioneer in Asia when it comes to marijuana. First it allowed citizens to grow weed and sell it to the government, and now the region’s first medical marijuana clinic has opened in Bangkok. This is...
If the prohibitionists are to be believed, then legalizing pot leads to a generation of weed-crazed youngsters too stoned to respect their elders.
Three years into Canada’s legalization experiment, however, the data tells a different story.
A new study from researchers...
For decades, the U.S. government had prohibitions on cannabis research. Whether it was for political reasons or simply due to the legality of the situation, research at the federal level was extremely limited for quite some time....
