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...
Suffering from migraines? While medical marijuana advocates have painted weed as a cure for just about everything, medical research is catching up to these claims and verifying quite a few of them. The issue of migraines has been hotly...
Last year, there was a huge scare over the adverse side effects on people caused by leftover solvents found in cannabis extracts -- specifically, vape cartridges. Commonly referred to as the vape crisis, hundreds of people got sick with...
What we’re learning about the endocannabinoid system is that it is both complicated and yet simple. That is, the principles of how it works are rather straightforward: Cannabinoid receptors cause cannabinoids to have an effect on our bodies. But...
Cannabis is a bit like the deep sea, in that we haven’t quite explored all of it yet, and there are still a lot of things we don’t know. In particular, there are still cannabinoids we’re discovering as though...
It seems cannabis sales have exploded around the country after the pandemic, and it’s not just legal sales that have grown. Against all odds, people are buying more pot -- even where there are stiff penalties if caught. In...
Name any drug at all, and chances are that a subculture has been developed around it. Of all these however, few are as predominant as stoner culture. Perhaps because cannabis is the most commonly used of all psychoactive substances,...
You’d have to be living under a rock to not be aware of the massive protests across the U.S. in the wake of the death of George Floyd. The outrage is justified, given the disproportionate numbers of black men...
Are you planning to travel soon? As some parts of the country “reopen” to tourism and business, we return to the notion of cannabis tourism. That’s where you travel to a state where weed is legal to enjoy the...
A welcome twist in legalization in the U.S. is an increasing awareness of the damage done by prohibition. There are thousands of Americans languishing in jails because of relatively minor offenses, or offenses that today wouldn’t even be an...
