First, let's clear something up: If you're reading this (you are), odds are more than a little good you already know what it's like to smoke weed. Not many people go looking for news articles and feature stories and...
It has long been known - or at least assumed - within the marijuana community that the drug can dramatically alter the course of severe childhood epilepsy. The idea is backed by countless anecdotes from families across the country.
And...
It was long assumed that marijuana and gambling addictions go together poorly. This made sense at a surface level, since people who are hooked on one addictive substance or behavior are typically counseled to avoid all others.
Modern science has...
The stoners of Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and the District of Columbia have it good. Weed is legal in these places, as well as cheap and plentiful. But not everyone is so lucky.
The rest of us have only one...
Marijuana makes almost everything better. Food, coffee, movies, even planetariums. But let's be honest: There is nothing weed improves quite so much as sex.
Or so many people say. But is there any truth to this claim? Is pot really...
If you have a chronic disease and you're reading this, odds are you use marijuana to treat your symptoms. The drug has a wide range of medical uses, from reducing nausea and chronic pain to fighting spasms and seizures...
We've all heard the story. A normal, functional person starts abusing alcohol or hard drugs. Before long, the person becomes addicted.
What happens next varies; the person may end up in jail, the hospital, or the morgue, or acknowledge the...
Medical marijuana in America is a relatively new thing. At its very oldest, it dates back no further than the 1970s, when the federal government launched an experimental program to give a short list of patients lifetime access to...
Drugs come in all varieties - hard, soft, potent, weak. They also carry many names, some official, some slang, and some downright obscure. But what are the best-known terms for marijuana, and where did they come from? Here's a...
Medical THC comes in many forms: smoked, vaporized, eaten. But it also comes in prescription form, legal in many countries. It's called Sativex, and it's the first prescription drug containing marijuana extract. So how does it work?
Sativex comes in...
