California’s Prop 65 reveals the depth of unawareness that most lawmakers and government officials have about the cannabis plant and her constituent compounds. From fishing lures to free pre-rolls, it seems everywhere you look these days in California you see…
In the midst of the shitshow of U.S. politics at the end of last year, federal lawmakers were facing the prospect of another government shutdown due to gridlock in agreeing to a proposed budget and passing a new spending bill….
The good ol’ days… the good ol’ days… everybody wants to go back to the good ol’ days, right? When you could walk into a stripmall pot shop with a backpack full of weed and walk out with $3-4k without…
As rapidly as the cannabis reform movement has grown, and as influential as it has become politically, we have another new president whose true views on cannabis remain a mystery. Yeah, yeah… we know that President Biden has allegedly “evolved”…
With no homegrow rights, watered-down-social equity provisions, and a complete disregard for criminal justice reform, New Yorkers need to send Gov. Cuomo back to the drawing board on cannabis legalization ≡ This week, the governor of New Jersey raised the…
In 1995, world-renowned Israeli researcher Dr. Raphael Mechoulam and associates published a paper titled ‘An efficient new cannabinoid antiemetic in pediatric oncology’ which specifically identified cannabis-derived Delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol, or delta-8-THC, as a potentially viable form of medication. The study referenced eight…
When you dive into the history of the concept of social equity, you find references dating back as far as ancient Greek philosophers like Aristotle and Plato concerning ideas like fairness, and justice, and the equitable distribution of social services…
The rapid rise in both mainstream acceptance and legislative reform that cannabis has earned over the past decade can be attributed to a handful of significant social stigmas surrounding the plant finally going up in smoke. Issues like veterans’ rights,…
As an embattled and deeply divided nation looked to turn the page on the shitshow that was 2020, emotions boiled over in the new year and January has been chaotic, politically, to say the least. The page was turned, however,…
You know that old saying “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people”? Well, like any firearm, so-called “CRC tech” is just a tool and although remediating the color of hash probably isn’t killing people, it sure is fooling a lot…
Well, this week was the week that a growing list of “Blue Check” users on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and more felt the pain that cannabis advocates have felt for years now as high-profile users from the…
We have written about it time and time again, but if you are still valuing cannabis solely based on its THC content, you are doing it wrong. That goes for retailers and retail custies alike since the consumer can only…
December 4th, Two Thousand and Twenty, a date that will live in infamy… at least among the cannabis community… at least among those in the community that pay attention to politics. December 4th was the day that the United States…
The War on Drugs didn’t end in 2020, but the rations are running dry and the ranks are rapidly dwindling for the Prohibition army that has been beaten to a bloody pulp on the cannabis front by us, the Drug…
Though it has devolved over the years into more of a Disneyfied Hallmark holiday, the roots of Christmas run deeply through various forms of religion, often telling a tale of a virgin birth in a barn and a 7lb 10oz…
If you look at grow lights, or hash, or even most of the weed itself from 20-30 years ago, you will likely appreciate how far it has all come since then. Comparing today’s tech with how it used to be…
Last month, voters in Oregon passed Measure 109 which will establish the nation’s first legal adult-use market for psilocybin mushrooms. The language of the measure that was voted on lays out a rough guideline of what such a market will…
With the recent decision by voters in Oregon to decriminalize the possession of all controlled substances, everybody’s Crazy Uncle is once again spewing nonsense. The problem is, so are a lot of people who ought to know better. So let’s…
“The truth of the matter is, there’s not nearly been enough evidence that has been acquired as to whether or not it is a gateway drug. It’s a debate, and I want a lot more before I legalize it nationally….
Well, the election came and went this year and unlike what many woke folks claimed, we still have a global pandemic to deal with. Imagine that… all those Europeans didn’t die to perpetuate a conspiracy theory about American politics… The…
Do you have a morning routine? Maybe a cup of coffee, or a freshly rolled joint, or perhaps a cigarette to take the edge off and start the day? Hell, maybe all three?! If so, you are certainly not alone….
If you enjoy consuming cannabis with even a hint of freedom or lack of concern about life-wrecking laws, you can thank intrepid cannabis trailblazers like Eddy Lepp for that. The thing is, there really is no one quite like OG…
The changing of the seasons has typically marked the culmination of the annual outdoor cannabis crop in a time of year many farmers refer to as ‘Croptober’. Though the hard work is far from complete to get the harvest to…
National Expungement Week 2020 (NEW) will take place from September 19th through the 26th with events planned in at least 16 cities from coast to coast all aimed at providing education and solutions regarding the expungement of past crimes from…
Vaporizing – or vaping – has exploded in both popularity and notoriety over the past decade as the seemingly noble original sales pitch that it was meant to help people quit smoking cigarettes quickly went up in smoke to reveal…
Several years ago, a dude who looks a lot like me picked up a bag of psilocybin mushrooms from a trusted source. That source told that dude who looks a lot like me that the seven grams of caps and…
In a typical year, the federally funded Small Business Administration (SBA) doles out an average of 50,000 low-interest loans to American companies to the tune of roughly $30 billion annually. This year, due to the massive impact of COVID-19 on…
When Election Day arrives in November, it will mark the 4th anniversary of the passage of Prop 64 here in California, the legislation that put the final nail in the coffin of the infamous Prop 215 medical cannabis era and…
653,249 were arrested in the U.S in 2016 on cannabis-related charges despite the fact that medical and recreational cannabis legalization measures were already sweeping the nation. Recognizing the difficult path that convicted cannabis warriors must walk to find redemption, a coalition of cannabis social justice organizations dubbed the Equity First Alliance is hosting the first of its kind National Expungement Week this week between October 20th & the 27th
At this point, it’s hard to know what to believe other than the only thing keeping the long reach of the federal government out of your stash is a pissy feud between two grumpy, perpetually confused, and obstinate old men. How comforting…
4/20 – the official holiday for cannabis connoisseurs – happens to fall on a Friday this year, and it has all of us doing whatever it takes to get through the work week and make it to whatever sesh awaits us.
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