Month: February 2022 (Page 11)

A U.S. sprinter who was suspended from competing in the 2021 summer Olympics over a positive marijuana test is challenging the recent decision to allow a Russian skater to continue to participate in this month’s winter games despite the discovery that she’d tested positive for a banned performance enhancement drug.Continue Reading

Cannabis cultivation can be defined as an art, a science or as an alchemic combination of the two. Over the course of a flowering cycle, it’s not uncommon for cannabis farmers to develop profound attachments to their crops, which, in turn, can lead to healthier, happier plants. Today, the bondContinue Reading

In the plant world, hemp is cannabis and cannabis is hemp—a simple and straightforward situation, until humans (and money) become involved. Then, hemp becomes an existential threat to cannabis. Since the 2018 Farm Bill legalized the production of “hemp”—a term legally defined as cannabis sativa with 0.3% or less THC;Continue Reading

Just days ahead of the Super Bowl, the National Football League (NFL) announced the award of $1 million in funding for two teams of medical researchers tasked with investigating the effects of cannabinoids in pain management and their potential for neuroprotection from concussion in “elite football players.” The move represents aContinue Reading