BERKELEY, CA — One of the nation’s premier learning institutions is bear-hugging the once-feared cannabis plant like never before. A newly formed Cannabis Research Center at UC Berkeley launched Tuesday night. The center could be the beginning of something huge in academia, said co-director Van Butsic, who has a Ph.D in forestry, and is studying […]
On a windy, gray morning earlier this month, the lights were on at Citiva Medical, Brooklyn’s first medical dispensary. The store opened its doors on December 30th, and a sort of soft launch was still underway. After passing through an elegant, blue-tiled anteroom, I encountered a thrum of activity: a TV news crew interviewed the […]
Using cannabis for anxiety? A new study aims to figure out which types of cannabis are best suited to the task. Anxiety is one of the most common conditions that people treat with cannabis, but how cannabis affects anxiety has always been a complicated picture. Research suggests that cannabis is effective at relieving anxiety, but […]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) is a hardline conservative who ranks among the most powerful politicians in Washington, DC. He’s also now an official (albeit unlikely) “hemp hero” thanks to an amendment he added to the massive 2018 Farm Bill that legalized hemp as an agricultural commodity in the United States for the first […]
Traveling can be one of the most rewarding life experiences one can have—but it doesn’t always go hand in hand with cannabis legalization. Unless your future travel plans are taking you to a recreationally legal state, or abroad to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Canada, or Uruguay, it’s unlikely that you will find safe, legal access to cannabis. […]
TORONTO – The head of regional transportation agency Metrolinx says workers in so-called safety-sensitive positions will be banned from consuming recreational cannabis at all times so that the company can protect the public as well as its employees. CEO Phil Verster said the provincial agency—which operates GO Transit in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area—is […]
Cannabis vaporizers and pre-packaged cartridges continue to grow in popularity, with sales estimated to grow nearly 50% from 2017 to 2018. Vaping delivers a different experience than smoking a joint, but it’s not easy to quantify that difference. Recently, though, scientists have looked into the question and found that vaping actually packs a more powerful […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Frustrated Louisiana patients waiting for medical marijuana to appear in regional pharmacies received updates Monday on the lengthy regulatory and testing process, but few timelines for when they’ll gain access to medicinal-grade pot to treat chronic conditions. Previous estimates of when medical marijuana would be available have come and gone. […]
Is consuming cannabis a sin, haram, not kosher? For many, it’s a serious question. In the Judaic tradition, scholars still debate the question of whether God meant Moses to use cannabis as part of an anointing oil when he spoke of a plant called kaneh-bosem, in Exodus 30:22-30. The Bible says the body is a […]
Abandon all notions of a dorm room, or a bodega — Maryland’s Curio Wellness vaults over its national peers with a bona fide health spa embedded in a Baltimore-area medical dispensary. Join The Hash podcast co-host Max Savage Levenson on a tour of Curio in Timonium, Maryland, where high-end yoga, acupuncture, and massage work synergistically […]
