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Leafly  Health Published on October 4, 2022 (Sasha Beck/Leafly) Potato chips, pizza, nachos—anyone who’s gotten high has experienced their own unique (or downright bizarre) snack choice when the munchies attack. If there’s one classic trope associated with cannabis, it’s a stoner with the munchies.  Weed can kick off fierce cravings and enhance your enjoyment of […]

Leafly  Canada Published on October 4, 2022 Grab you sweater and fav sativa for an autumn hike amongst the changing leaves. (fahrwasser/Adobe Stock) Once Labour Day is safely in the rearview mirror, it’s cable-knit and copious cups of PSLs all the time because — it’s fall, y’all.  Cringe aside, Canadian autumn is one of the […]

Leafly  Health Published on October 4, 2022 (Ann Clancy / Leafly) Contrary to myths that psychoactive drugs fry your brain, new research published yesterday (October 3) in Nature Communications has found that some hallucinogens may enable more dynamic mental function. Scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine reviewed recordings from fMRI scans that suggest these substances essentially […]

Leafly  As the German saying goes, aller anfang ist schwer: All beginnings are hard. Here’s what lies ahead for the country as it prepares to become the first major European weed market by 2024. When you think of the world’s largest adult-use cannabis market, your mind probably doesn’t go to Europe. But get ready to […]

The Fresh Toast  Cannabis products are named the same way everything else in the world is named. Some names are unusual, some fascinating, some silly, and others logical. Most of these names have a tale behind them. There are also cannabis strains that are named after the other older strains in the generation. A perfect example […]

Leafly  Legal cannabis is America’s fastest-growing industry, with more than 428,000 jobs across dozens of states. If you’re curious about starting a cannabis career—or just want a job with decent pay and cool co-workers—budtending is an excellent way to learn the trade. Dispensaries in Eastern states are booming, and that means they’re hiring. Leafly’s 2022 […]

Leafly  Canada Published on October 4, 2022 Budtenders are the frontline workers of cannabis retail—how are they trained? As of October 2022, data firm Cannabis Benchmarks indicates that licensed adult-use cannabis stores across Canada keep coming, with over 3,290 stores coast-to-coast. That’s a lot of opportunity for job seekers who want to repurpose their existing […]

The Fresh Toast  By Recently, Senators filed another pair of marijuana amendments to a large-scale defense bill, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Cannabis-related amendments proposed for the Senate version of the NDAA include legalizing medical cannabis for military veterans and pressuring the VA to provide federal home loan benefits to veterans in the cannabis industry. Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) introduced an amendment […]

The Fresh Toast  Scientists have confirmed the existence of over one hundred cannabinoids in Cannabis sativa, including cannabinol or CBN. What is CBN? While tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the best studied cannabinoid, interest in the endocannabinoid system has spurred research into lesser-known cannabinoids like cannabidiol (CBD), cannabigerol (CBG), cannabichromene (CBC), cannabidivarin (CBDV), and tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV), and cannabinol (CBN). In this article, […]