Chuck Schumer Says Marijuana Reform Bills Are Being Merged As Congress Moves To Legalize
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says lawmakers are in the process of merging various marijuana bills, including his own legalization legislation, as the chamber works to enact reform this session. In an interview on Wednesday night with former NBA player
How to use cannabis for anxiety
When I first began using cannabis almost a decade ago, I found it worked wonders for my anxiety. Back then, it didn’t really matter which strain I was smoking—cannabis almost always helped regardless of set, setting, dose, or strain. But as
Dumping CBD Oil On Strawberries Extends Their Shelf Life And Stops Mold Growth, New Study Finds
CBD is marketed to help with a dizzying array of human wellness issues—but now you can add fruit preservation to that list, according to a recent study. Yes, the non-intoxicating cannabinoid apparently helps strawberries stay fresh, researchers at the University of
Revolutionary New Test Predicts if Cannabis Plants Will Be High in THC or CBD
When the 2018 Farm Bill was enacted, hemp became legal in the United States. Though it seems like CBD consumers would benefit the most from this move, Congress actually wanted hemp farmers to benefit from the massive demand for CBD, which naturally occurs in
The Biggest Threat to Growing Marijuana in California Used to Be the Law. Now, it’s Climate Change
Valerie Leveroni Corral spent days after lightning set the Santa Cruz Mountains on fire not knowing if a cannabis crop her organization grows for the sick and dying had survived. The one-acre crop sits on the site of a former Boy Scout
The Problem with Combining Cannabis Products and Prescription Medications
The numerous applications of medicinal marijuana have brought up all sorts of questions in recent years. Although the majority of these questions are due to a lack of sufficient clinical evidence regarding the efficacy of some of the therapeutic benefits
Study: After-Hours Cannabis Use Has No Negative Impact On Worker Performance
A San Diego State University study found that after-hours cannabis use has no negatives effects on workplace performance but did find a negative correlation between those who used cannabis before and during work with task performance. In fact, Dr. Jeremy Bernerth, management professor
Study Finds 90% of Rolling Papers Contain Heavy Metals
An analysis by California’s SC Laboratories Inc. of 101 rolling papers found at least one heavy metal in 90 percent of the papers tested with 8 percent containing at least one heavy metal in “concentrations above the allowable limits” in
The Growing Fields of Cannabis Can Be Organically Cultivated
Photo by Esteban Lopez on Unsplash Regardless of whether a cultivator is growing or wishes to grow organic cannabis, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) organic certification is unattainable. This, of course, is because the US federal government, still, in 2020 (!), despite the
The Cannabis Industry is Now Essential But is It Equal?
Cannabis has been deemed essential, but when will equality rules be enforced? The coronavirus pandemic that rocked the entire world in 2020 helped many to come to different realizations in terms of what is really important to the general