CANNABIS CULTURE – Older adults are using cannabis as a preventative measure. Case in point, Mark Burnett (62), strongman from Akron, Ohio, prefers to use CBD for an extra kick to go with his morning vitamins. CBD is subtle in its effects, but Mr. Bu…
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How One Man’s Psychedelic Journey May Change the Face of Schizophrenia Treatment
CANNABIS CULTURE – “It is well understood that people with schizophrenia should not take large dosages of psychedelics because it is destabilizing,” says Mark Haden, Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)…
What Bill Weinberg Misunderstands About Hemp Ethanol
CANNABIS CULTURE – “Now that hemp has finally arrived at its long-sought status as a legal crop and commodity, to what extent will it deviate from the utopian vision that animated the advocates who fought for it a generation ago?” – Bill Weinberg, HEMP…
Corporate Cannabis Struggles While Craft Producers Thrive
CANNABIS CULTURE – Financial experts blame price wars with the legacy market, increased competition, and unexpected consumer disinterest in Cannabis 2.0 products for the plummeting stocks of corporate LPs like Aurora and Canopy. However, with the numbe…
Five Questions With Green Party Candidate Scott Bernstein
CANNABIS CULTURE – British Columbia is holding a snap election. In my riding of Vancouver-Kingsway, I finally have a chance to vote for a real progressive drug peace activist, who is saying all the right stuff about drug policy. I asked Scott Bernstein…
Cannabis Cultivators Suffer Devastation as Wildfires Rage in the West
CANNABIS CULTURE – Wildfires are still ravaging the western portion of the United States, where nearly 60 percent of the cannabis industry’s operations are located. This is potentially a crushing blow to smaller cannabis cultivators who don’t have the …
New Zealanders Eye Opportunities as Vote on Cannabis Legalization Nears
CANNABIS CULTURE – New Zealand is set to vote next week on the legislation of a new adult use cannabis program. Activists, people and politicians have argued the legal framework will create opportunity where once there was only despair. “I hope to see …
American Firm Engineers Federally Legal Cannabis Strain
CANNABIS CULTURE – Cannabis America, a product described on the company’s website as “the world’s safest, cleanest, and most effective cannabis Sativa L genetics.” The company is Bazelet Oglesby and their 0.00% THC Hemp does not qualify as a Schedule 1…
COVID-19, Cannabis & Herbal Medicine Part 2: Gain-Of-Function
CANNABIS CULTURE – A DEEP dive into the relevant facts – and predictions for the near future – regarding the pandemic of 2020. “We are men of groans and howls, Mystic men who eat boiled owls, Tell us what you wish oh King, Our magic can do a…
The Syndicate: Podcast Exposes Biggest Black Market Pot Bust in US History
CANNABIS CULTURE – Skydiving drug smugglers, a multimillion-dollar empire, massive warehouses and more — and all right under the nose of the Feds. Sound exciting? Chris Walker thought so, and his following of the story, that of a group now referred…