It’s a blazing hot 92-degree (33°C) day at the Casa Flor farm in Willits, California, and the first attribute of the towering cannabis plants that I take in is their ability to shade me from the sun. Two days after the autumnal equinox, the coolest place to be is down in the dirt among the…
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Jarred Shaw is a 35-year-old American basketball player who helped his team win Indonesia’s 2023 Basketball League championship. He’s also a Texan with Crohn’s disease—a chronic inflammatory bowel condition that causes debilitating pain and has no cure. Like many Crohn’s patients who’ve exhausted conventional treatments, Shaw found relief through cannabis. Specifically, he used cannabis gummies…
Death Row for Gummies: The Countries That Will Execute You Read More »
The Strains of the Month for October features a plethora of heaters we’re sure our readers will enjoy. This lineup showcases some of the latest and greatest strains to hit the recreational market this fall. There are also a few award winners who have taken top honors at contests all over the country. This lineup…
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When I saw Stanford Medicine’s article about cannabis use in older adults, I expected balanced, evidence-based health guidance. What I got instead was a mixture of legitimate medical advice wrapped in misleading statistics, historical revisionism, and barely disguised pharmaceutical industry talking points. Don’t get me wrong – warnings about cannabis use for seniors aren’t inherently…
“Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world…” Cannabis isn’t just a plant: it’s a passport. A language without borders. A seed that connects continents, cultures, and generations. It’s the smell on your clothes after a night in a dive bar in Amsterdam. It’s the sticky hash a Moroccan farmer…
The Global Cannabis Renaissance: A Long Strange 18 Year Trip Read More »
When I moved to Spain in 2002, I didn’t come for the easy attitude to cannabis, but it quickly became a reason to stay. I remember Friday afternoon in the port of Marbella, summer sunshine, rows of pristine white yachts rocking on the calm water under a blue sky, spacious bar terraces full of potted…
From Misfit to Medical to Meme: My Cannabis Crisis of Read More »
This November, the cannabis community heads to São Paulo, Brazil, where some of the biggest names in cultivation, branding, and extraction are teaming up for something new. It’s called Beyond Cultivation Bootcamp (BCB), and it promises to reshape how the world learns, grows, and launches cannabis. It’s not a trade show. Not a lecture circuit.…
Cannabis Heavyweights Bring Global Masterclass to Brazil This November Read More »
I’ve been getting high on and off since sixth grade. Two decades later, after a lot of inner work, one thing hasn’t changed: weed gives me paranoia. I’ll admit it—cannabis has never been easy for me. More often than not, it brings on a heavy sense of doom, like the world’s eyes are fixed on…
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Witness them together, and it’s immediately clear:Wendy Zeng and Christina Wong have a special bond. They cozily share Zeng’s living room couch as we start our virtual interview, their answers weaving together effortlessly with every question. It’s impossible to deny the pair’s electric chemistry, even though they only met in 2021. By 2022, they held…
Cannabis, Immigrants and the ‘In-Between’: The Story of Mogu Magu Read More »
The primary goal of any extraction method is to separate the cannabinoid-rich resin of the cannabis plant from the inert plant matter. In the dry ice kief separation process, dry CO2 literally freezes the resin glands on the plant, making them easy to shake loose from foliage. These frozen glands fall through a 120- to…
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