Joe Kennedy III appeared on Jimmy Kimmel last evening further affirming his opposition to legal marijuana. He does not provide any clear understanding of why he is such an opponent except to say that we do not know enough about cannabis. To Kimmel’s credit, he questions the young congressman’s stance on cannabis but without at […]
Good cannabis isn’t hard to come by in legal states, but if you don’t want to burn through both your wallet and all your good bud, you’re probably interested in ways to stretch your stash between dispensary visits. Thankfully, there’s an essential technique that can help conserve and extend your high-grade cannabis during a solo […]
Ben Kovler is the heir to the Jim Beam empire and is also the majority shareholder of Green Thumb Industries, a marijuana producer that has thus far been very focused on the medical marijuana industry. Green Thumb Industries or GTI produces brands of marijuana like DW (Dog Walker) and Rosa that are commonly found in […]
Woody Harrelson has recently ended his hiatus from smoking marijuana with a little help from his pal and fellow weed aficionado Willie Nelson. The film star, who had stopped smoking marijuana for about two years as part of an extended tolerance break, appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres show earlier this week and openly talked about […]
Soft-power is some pretty amazing stuff. Soft-power is when you can get people to do what you want without coercing or forcing them to do it. It is very different than law enforcement or military action and may ultimately have a more widespread and long lasting impact than physical force. Hollywood and Silicon Valley make […]
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Investing in the cannabis industry has moved beyond just hype, with investors now able to evaluate more than a dozen public companies generating substantial revenue as cannabis producers and/or retailers or providers of goods or services to the industry, with several focused solely on Canada. Today I want to dig in a little deeper and […]
Attorney General Jeff Sessions painted a grim vision of violence in America on Tuesday, telling state law enforcement officials that a recent uptick in killings threatens to undo decades of progress and suggesting police would be more effective if they were subjected to less federal scrutiny. In his first major policy speech as attorney general, […]
A bit of positive news came out today for the Zartler family of Richmond, Texas. They have been using medical marijuana as an effective form of treatment for their daughter’s bouts of self harm and were in jeopardy of losing custody of her. They won their legal battle over being able to maintain custody of […]
With so little serious research conducted on the health effects of cannabis use, when little gems of information like what was recently released from the Harvard University’s School of Public Health comes out we want to analyze it in detail. This study focused on the impacts of marijuana consumption on the kidneys with over 14,000 […]