There's a story opponents of marijuana reform love to tell: Smoking pot, they say, is a gateway to bigger, badder things - cocaine, heroin, meth. Start small, end up dead.
The myth was debunked long ago, yet it lingers. A...
The golden age of cannabis is finally here! The growth of legalization in many states has brought us hundreds of options right at our fingertips; sometimes delivered straight to our doors. For medical users, the imperative demand for an...
For decades now, the debate over legalizing marijuana has focused on the drug's two primary uses: medical and recreational. Medicinal cannabis use gained public and political support far faster than the recreational kind, and that discrepancy remains.
But what is...
Its origins are legend. Many years past, the story goes, a clever scientist snuck a rare, exceedingly potent strain of marijuana out of a government lab. The strain, known simply as G13, eventually exploded in popularity.
G13 has allegedly given...
The legal marijuana industry in America is less than two decades old, yet it’s already producing hundreds of millions of dollars in product each year and building a national network of entrepreneurs, regulators, and customers.
The market is poised to...
"Marijuana destroys brain cells!" This pithy bit of wisdom is the line traditionally uttered to scare people off marijuana, but numerous studies have shown that it holds little weight. If one were to judge marijuana's effects on the brain...
Maureen Dowd is well known for her high-minded hyperbole. But the snarky columnist for The New York Times may have outdone herself in her most recent attempt to break into the oh-so-mysterious world of legal weed.
Dowd, who apparently has...
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...
Back in the 1980’s, the airwaves were full of anti-drug propaganda. Sure, there was “Just Say No,” but that phrase wasn’t the only thing -- there were “shocking” videos of how drug use could ruin your life. At one...
We stoners aren’t exactly known as the athletic type. Many of us smoke cigarettes, most of us drink, and those of us with the right priorities would choose high over fit any day of the week.
But that hardly means...
