Every year, more than 200,000 Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, a neurological disorder that causes stiffness, tremors, and affects both a person’s ability to speak and to walk. Specifically, Parkinson’s is a degeneration of dopamine neurons in the brain. It’s a debilitating disease for which there is no one known causeContinue Reading
As cannabis becomes more mainstream, there’s increasing acceptance of growing and using the plant – even among conventional farmers and ranchers. In a recent Farm Journal survey, respondents said they were more comfortable with CBD and medical applications of cannabis than THC and recreational applications. Survey respondents also were moreContinue Reading
Not unlike chia seeds and ancient grains, matcha is popping up on menus around the country right now. It most frequently appears in baked goods, smoothies, chocolate or as a stand-alone tea, and its lovely pale green color and herbal flavor makes for an intriguing ingredient. Combine matcha with cannabisContinue Reading
Early sales of regulated adult-use cannabis chipped away at the illicit market in the final quarter of last year – the first period of legal recreational cannabis sales – with black market purchases declining 8% in the October-December period, according to fresh data from Statistics Canada. Legalization came into force in mid-October.Continue Reading
Barrels of ink, analog and digital, have been spilled about the link between marijuana legalization and children discovering a latent cannabis habit. (TL;DR — there doesn’t appear to be one; youth use rates remained flat after legalization, according to recent data from both Colorado and Washington.) But what about adults?Continue Reading
You might soon find yourself looking for your CBD infused products you were buying at your local drugstore, but they’ve suddenly vanished. CBD could soon only be available in pharmacies. “Until a further update from the EU, consumers, vendors, and manufacturers may find that the sale of CBD oils, supplementsContinue Reading
The cannabis prohibitionist group Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) recently released a poll on American’s rate of support for legalized cannabis. As you might expect from the Reefer Madness crowd, their press release about the poll proudly claims, “68 percent of Americans favor marijuana policies other than legalization.” That result comes inContinue Reading
As long as cannabis remains federally illegal and bosses remain universally square, the likelihood that you’ll be asked to take a drug test at some point in time remains relatively high. Of course, not all drug tests are created equal. Different bodily substances can narc you out after different lengthsContinue Reading
Medical marijuana is proving immensely popular in Oklahoma, where the drug has been legally available for less than six months — so popular that the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA) is at the moment literally overwhelmed by patient demand. Oklahoma voters legalized medical marijuana last June, passing Question 788 by aContinue Reading
Colorado’s $1.5 billion-a-year marijuana industry appears on the threshold of opening its recreational and medical markets to a potential rush of outside investors and capital, almost a year after former Gov. John Hickenlooper shot down similar legislation. Bipartisan legislation that would allow publicly held companies to both invest in andContinue Reading
