It's one of the most persistent claims made by opponents of marijuana reform: Teens who use the drug suffer from lower IQs than teens who don't. Science on the subject has been murky at best.
But now a new study...
It's the nightmare of every stoner who prefers not to sample hard drugs. A few puffs into a great J, it becomes clear something is wrong. From there, things take a dramatic turn for the worse, provoking panic attacks,...
With marijuana legalization, hemp has staged a major comeback in the United States. So have the many products made from it, including lucrative hemp oil.
But the benefits of these products aren't always clear. We know hemp rope works, we...
You don't have to suffer from clinical depression to know a thing or two about the winter blues. Everywhere north of the subtropics, life slows down, becomes sadder, bleaker, less enjoyable. With or without depression, the experience is downright...
Research into the benefits of medical marijuana is a relatively new phenomenon, mostly because almost every country in the world severely restricts what scientists can learn about the drug. But we have had hints of its medicinal qualities for...
Most people who buy drugs still buy them the old-fashioned way: on the street, from a dealer who gets his stuff from a bigger dealer, who gets it from a shipper, who gets it from a processor, who gets...
Alcohol, tobacco, hard drugs - women are strongly advised to stay away from these things while pregnant, as we have extensive evidence they interfere with fetal development and cause lifelong health problems for newborns.
We know, for example, that babies...
Marijuana is good for you, marijuana is bad for you, marijuana makes no difference. These are the contradictory lessons we are taught about our favorite drug, and we are left on our own to decide which is most true.
In...
Every pothead of a certain age dreads "the talk." No, we don't mean that talk, the one you have with your kids about marijuana and birds and bees and such. We mean "the talk" that starts when your aging...
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...
