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NYC Mayoral Candidates Reveal Whether They’ve Purchased Marijuana From Licensed

New York City’s three major mayoral candidates got something of a curveball question during an otherwise contentious debate on Thursday, with each of the contenders asked whether they’ve “ever purchased anything in a cannabis shop.” Democratic mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa affirmed that they have bought marijuana at licensed shops. Former…

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Lifelong Humboldt County Cultivator Goes Global to Fight Cratering Prices

Jason Gellman remembers when farmers in his hometown of Garberville could sell a pound of their Humboldt County cannabis for $5,000. That was back around 1990, when the California county known for growing the best weed on planet Earth served most of the American West and large swaths of the entire country.In just five years,…

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How to Blind Test Cannabis for an Elevated Experience

Cannabis can be tasted and appreciated like fine wine and the idea is gaining momentum nationwide. Over in the global ganja epicenter of California, encouraging people to blind test cannabis is nearly standardized.  Local chef, entrepreneur and industry veteran Chip Moore, 36, is the founder of the 4 and 20 Blackbirds collective and has been…

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Progress? Yes. Justice? Not Yet: Cannabis Possession Still Makes Up

While cannabis is now legal in almost half the country, thousands are still arrested in other parts of the United States simply for carrying weed. In 2024, more than 20% of drug arrests were for cannabis possession, according to NORML’s analysis of FBI Crime Data Explorer figures. To put that into perspective, last year saw…

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Can Weed Mend a Broken Heart? A High Times Survival

There really isn’t much of a recipe for a broken heart. We all find our own tools, our own strategies, on a path that’s rarely straightforward… or easy. “Heartbreak is a life experience that you have to go through, no matter what,” says Florencia Alcaráz, journalist and columnist for ElDiario.ar, whose ongoing work about relationships,…

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Death Row for Gummies: The Countries That Will Execute You

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…

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Can Genes Predict Cannabis Use and Who’s at Higher Risk

A new study in Molecular Psychiatry looked at the DNA of 131,895 people and asked two simple questions. Have you ever used cannabis? If yes, how often? Among those who had tried, frequency was analyzed in 73,374 people. The answers lined up with tiny genetic signals in brain systems tied to glutamate and the way…

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Sustainable Cannabis Growers Will Save the World — If We

The planet is dying, although some will still deny it. The data is unequivocal: according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), by 2030, the Earth will surpass 1.5°C of average global temperature compared to the pre-industrial era. This will only happen if the countries that signed the Paris Agreement meet their targets. But…

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Your Home Grow Journey Starts With I Love Growing Marijuana

There’s nothing quite like growing your own cannabis at home. Watching a tiny seed turn into a beautiful, potent plant that twinkles with trichomes, smelling those first terpenes, knowing you did it all yourself, is unmatched. But for many people, the dream of growing at home hits a brick wall before they even get started.…

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Stanford University’s Cannabis Warnings for Seniors: Separating Facts from Pharma-Friendly

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…

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