LGBTQ Pride celebrations happen throughout the month of June in the US, and the increasingly mainstream embrace of a free-wheelin’, rainbow-draped party season along with legal cannabis means crossover marketing is here. Being an effective ally to those in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual community requires more than simply slapping a […]
You’ve been thinking about growing cannabis but the idea of growing indoors, without the sun, seems absurd. On the other hand, you’re pretty sure the unpredictability of Mother Nature will give you an ulcer. You also have nosy neighbors who might gasp at the sight and smell of cannabis. What to do? A greenhouse might […]
Take it as another sign of the growing acceptance of cannabis nationwide: Two of America’s most cannaphobic states are finally making progress on reform. Things are happening in Alabama and Mississippi, y’all. Medical legalization stalled in the Alabama Legislature, but a new commission will draft a bill for 2020. In Alabama yesterday, Republican Gov. Kay […]
As harmful bacteria adapt to resist antibiotics, one area scientists are looking at to keep people healthy has been nutrition. Think “You are what you eat,” or, in the case of a group of select newborn piglets, “You are what your mother eats.” In an April 2019 study published in the academic journal Animals, researchers […]
This article is sponsored by Veritas Farms, growing hemp cannabis in the fresh air and sunshine of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. Veritas Farms keeps control over its supply chain the old-fashioned way—by growing acres on acres of their own hemp plants. This carefully cultivated cannabis provides the high-CBD source material for their CBD tinctures and other […]
Over the past year, the nationwide market for CBD has exploded. Products containing cannabidiol (CBD) are now available at CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens, and independent retailers across the country. That spike in demand has also opened an opportunity for fraud. And the currently murky legal environment that surrounds CBD has proven too tempting for some veteran […]
This article is presented by Every Day Optimal, offering a wide array of CBD-rich products sourced from hemp cultivated by American farmers. CBD products are showing up in medicine cabinets across America, and while this increasingly popular cannabinoid is available in a diverse array of products, there’s one delivery method that’s proven unexpectedly popular with […]
Pirate (not his real name) has been working with cannabis his entire adult life, a trajectory that took him from getting his fingernails dirty at a clandestine outdoor grow in the underground economy to serving patients as part of California’s gray market in medical marijuana, and then on into a job at a state-licensed cannabis […]
This week in Cannabis: Some Ontario cannabis stores cut their retail hours, Alberta lifts its ban on retail licensing, Health Canada lets provinces decide about nursery seed sales, a Vancouver park remains a site of contentious debate, and cannabis research and programming sees millions more in funding nationwide. We’ve rounded up this week’s top stories […]
With thousands of CBD products on the market, from infused enemas to espresso, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing to craft regulations around the cannabinoid. At a public hearing that kicks off Friday morning, the agency will hear from dozens of experts and interested citizens. That testimony will help shape FDA policies […]
