Weed Between the Lines
‘An environmental crime’
The illegal grow operations John Nores with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (CDFW) Marijuana Enforcement Team would break up were all different....
Medical cannabis heads toward the tipping point
Weed, the CNN documentary anchored by Dr. Sanjay Gupta that aired last summer, highlighted the case of Charlotte Figi, a Colorado girl whose epileptic seizures were calmed by use of a special strain of cannabis high in cannabidiol, or CBD, a cannabinoid associated ...
The new preference
During Colorado’s 2022-23 fiscal year, the state collected more sales tax revenue from cannabis than it did from both cigarettes and alcohol, according to...
DMT: Living in an alien world and we don’t even know...
Dr. Andrew Gallimore was a very strange child, and in lots of ways too. For now let’s keep to his fascination with ghosts. Well,...
All about the terpenes
There are a lot of elements involved with choosing the right bud when you’re perusing a dispensary. There’s the classic sativa versus indica dilemma;...
Rep. Jared Polis: Getting past Washington’s war-on-drugs mentality
The elephant in the room of all attempts by states to regulate marijuana is the current federal prohibition, which began in earnest under President Richard Nixon. Federal laws that make smoking marijuana a crime and a Justice Department dragging its feet under ...
Unraveling cannabinoids, together
Cannabis has over 120 known cannabinoids—but the only ones we know much of anything about are the two most abundant: THC and CBD (and...
After Effects
One of the most common arguments supporting drug-testing policies is the idea of the cannabis “hangover”: sluggishness, grogginess, confusion and disorientation that supposedly follow...
Seven rings to rule them all
I’m no scientist, but it seems like studying cannabis is kind of like studying the depths of the ocean: the deeper you go the...
Growing through a labor shortage
It isn’t news at this point so much as common knowledge: Businesses are struggling to hire the help they need. Restaurants, bars, cafes, grocery...
Gardner tries, but First Step Act fails to include cannabis provisions
Cannabis is still illegal on a federal level and the people with marijuana charges are still criminals with criminal records. That’s the message the...
‘Pot is fun’ and other thoughts by Allen Ginsberg
With the fall equinox approaching, the second coming of the summer of love is coming to an end. The first summer of love was...
