Get Beautiful Buds With These Outdoor Cannabis Harvesting Tips
For those of us growing cannabis outdoors, we get to reap the benefits of gardening in the natural world. We skip the artificial light, ubiquitous chemicals, and noisy inline fans, and instead use sunlight, living soil, and gentle breezes to nurture our plants to maturity. Of course, the great outdoors has its downsides too, like […]
How Does Your State Rate for Medical Marijuana in 2019?
Sorry, Texas. The world’s leading medical cannabis patient advocacy group, Americans for Safe Access (ASA), reports that residents of the Pacific island territory of Guam have better options to treat chronic pain and other ailments than their fellow Americans in Texas and the Southeast. That’s according to ASA’s 2019 State of the States Report, an […]
Opinion: It’s OK That Blue Dream Is Your Favorite Cannabis Strain
Let’s talk about our beloved Blue Dream for a quick second. On paper, Blue Dream is the single-most searched cannabis strain in all of the lands. It currently has over 12,000 reviews on Leafly, most of them “Exceptional,” resulting in a rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars. And yet, if you say Blue Dream […]
The Latest in Cannabis Research: Winter/Spring 2019
As the summer heats up, it’s worth taking a look back in the year when cannabis research was just as hot. Exciting new studies continue to come out with the global trend toward legalization and acknowledging the therapeutic potential of cannabis. Research so far this year encompasses finding the region in the brain that gets […]
Marijuana Legalization Causes ‘Significant Decline’ In Opioid Overdoses, New Research Finds
Two new studies find that opioid-related deaths decline when states legalize access to marijuana. In fact, when adult-use cannabis laws are in place, the rate of opioid overdoses declines by at least 20 percent. Both papers, published in the journal Economic Inquiry, not only show the impact of passing such laws, but also how dispensaries […]
Cannabis in Sports: Unpacking Exemptions for Therapeutic Use
For most adult Canadians, cannabis has never been easier to access. Meanwhile, our elite athletes must abstain while they are in competition or face aggressive fines or suspension. Canadian MMA fighter, Elias Theodorou, suffers from bilateral neuropathic pain. He feels the pain from his condition in his upper extremities–his hands, wrists, and elbows are all […]
