Pain pills that aren’t addictive are the holy grail of the pharmaceutical industry. After years of litigation, however, we found out that opioids like oxycontin were billed as “non-addictive” to doctors, who then prescribed them in droves, and created...
Summer is a great time to be alive and the only things that can make the endless beach gatherings, backyard barbecues, and balmy nights even better are a stash of good buds and some cool tunes to set the...
We wrote about how Italy sort of accidentally decriminalized cannabis a while back. The country was trying to push back on “light cannabis” yet had also seen a drop in drugs from pharmaceuticals as people figured out the trick...
Not everyone is aware of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML. Even so, NORML has been fighting for legalization for decades. In that time, the board of directors has consisted of a parade of...
In the early 1990s, scientists discovered an ancient Siberian mummy buried with remnants of cannabis pollen. They later concluded that she died of breast cancer - and took weed to treat it. The find proved that humans have been...
Drugs have been with us for a very, very long time. Probably even longer than we have been us. Scientists believe intoxication is a common feature of the animal kingdom, a happy accident of evolution that allows countless species...
Honey bees and marijuana don't exactly go hand in hand in the public imagination. Many growers consider bees to be pests, but not everyone.
Nicolas "Trainbees," a French medical marijuana cultivator, earned his nickname over 20 years of beekeeping and...
Have you been drinking more or less since the pandemic? If you’re a cannabis consumer, there’s a poll that says you’re probably drinking less, by a lot. In the poll, which involved a healthy sample of 2,000 respondents, 45%...
Guitarist for the Cause: Stephen Carpenter
Stephen Carpenter, the guitarist for Deftones, has never been shy about his fondness of marijuana. Following a recent interview with Guitar World, the interviewer described how he watched Carpenter roll an ample-sized “spliff,” mid-interview. ...
Weed and stoner movies go together like…well, there really is nothing that compares to the synergy between marijuana’s effects and moving lights on a screen. Feeding off each other, and seemingly making each one more potent, weed and movies...
