Could smoking cannabis open the magical door to weight loss? Some recent studies have implied that daily cannabis use is associated with a lower BMI, smaller waist size and lower fasting insulin levels. Some cannabis growers have heard the...
Remember those stories about street weed being laced with other drugs? While that has happened from time to time, there’s now a possible therapy involving cannabis mixed with mushrooms. Obviously, pot and mushrooms have been combined recreationally for, oh...
Score one for justice, or maybe irony: An Allentown, Pa., man, described by prosecutors as the "scariest sex offender this community has ever seen," was sentenced in November to 18 months in jail - for growing marijuana.
Clyde Ruppel, 74,...
Facebook’s platform has grown to a point where it reaches billions. That’s comparable to the world’s largest broadcast platforms like CNN. As a result, enforcing rules on content posted on Facebook has become a challenge as there...
Since the counterculture of the late 1960s, those who indulged in recreational marijuana have been decidedly non-conformist. They took to communes, joined every anti-war protest in sight and embraced radical chic.
Five decades later, the remnants of the hippies exist...
One of the unfortunate quirks in U.S. law about cannabis, considering it’s still a Schedule A drug as far as the Federal government is concerned, is that you can’t buy weed in one state and then cross state lines...
Once upon a time, marijuana grew exclusively outdoors. The cannabis plant, discovered millennia ago on the slopes of the Hindu Kush Mountains, is a tropical native and requires two to three months of intense sunlight before flowering.
But that is...
How did you first hear about medical marijuana? It might have been a news story about pending legislation or perhaps its potential for medical applications. There’s been a surge in the science behind medical cannabis, yet the reason why...
The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, has changed his tune about marijuana in the past two years. As Rolling Stone reported, not too long ago the governor considered it to be a “gateway drug” -- that...
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...
