Big Pharma Gave Up On Superbugs. This Pharmacist Asked The Cannabis Plant Instead.
Dr. Dana Lambert left hospital pharmacy in 2013 to study cannabinoid pharmacology, learned plant medicine from indigenous elders, and bet her career on the whole plant. A new Oxford-published study shows two cannabinoids most dispensary customers have never asked for, CBC and CBG, can make silver work 64 times harder against MRSA, E. coli and […]
Indigenous Cannabis Is Shaping the Industry’s Future
By Rob Pero, Founder of Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association The most exciting future for cannabis in the U.S. isn’t coming out of Congress or corporate boardrooms. It’s happening in Indigenous communities across North America. Tribal Nations are organizing and making moves to destigmatize plant medicine, build sustainable and generational wealth, and plan for a better […]
Hidden in the Rescheduling Order: Could the DEA Become the Nation’s Biggest Weed Dealer?
This article originally appeared on IgniteIt and is republished here with permission. The Trump administration’s rescheduling order contains a little-noticed provision requiring the DEA to buy and resell state-legal medical cannabis. Attorneys say it’s bizarre. Operators say it’s a threat to small businesses. Nobody knows exactly how it works yet. The Trump administration’s cannabis rescheduling […]
Kal Penn Knows Exactly Why People Keep Offering Him Weed
Twenty years after Harold & Kumar, the actor talks to High Times about meeting Cheech for the first time, the strain deal he never got and what a Jimmy John’s sandwich campaign says about where cannabis culture actually is right now. Nobody offers Anthony Hopkins free meat. “People aren’t like, ‘Oh, I saw Silence of […]
Your Plastic Pots Are Slowly Killing Your Plants
Plastic pots are the default choice for most growers, but they may be quietly limiting your yields, stressing your plants and stunting your roots. Here is what to do instead. Growing top-quality cannabis involves time, love and care, but the pots you use play a bigger role in root development than most growers realize. This […]
‘Addiction Factory’: Study Denounces the Dangers of Overdiagnosing Habits
The term “addiction” gets thrown around quite freely in everyday language—this is nothing new. Who among us hasn’t declared themselves addicted to some habit or substance, more jokingly than seriously? Who hasn’t accused someone else of being addicted to some substance, device, or routine that we consider excessive? How many songs claim the performer is […]
Cannabis Rescheduling Could Happen Today. Don’t Call It Legalization.
The Trump administration is expected to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act as soon as today, according to reporting from Axios. This would be the most significant federal cannabis policy shift in decades. It is not legalization. Here’s what you need to know right now. As of publication, […]
Colombia to Cull Dozens of Hippos: From Pablo Escobar’s Pets to a Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Colombia is moving forward with a controversial plan to euthanize dozens of invasive hippos descended from Pablo Escobar’s private collection, as their population continues to grow uncontrollably. The decision highlights a complex clash between environmental protection, public safety, and animal welfare, with no easy solution in sight. How Did Non-Native Hippos End Up in Colombia, […]
The Extinction of Traditional Hashish
Imported hashish sustained mountain economies for centuries—until modern legalization and market economics erased it almost overnight. Traditional imported hashish—hand-rubbed Nepali charas, Lebanese blonde, Moroccan temple balls, Afghani black—has effectively vanished from North American markets. This is not a story about enforcement or interdiction. This is a story about market economics and how legalization ironically destroyed […]
Defense Wins Championships: Why Distribution (Not Branding) Will Determine Who Survives the Cannabis Shakeout
By Eric Offenberger via Cannabis Confidential 69% of cannabis consumers have no brand preference. 18% say brand influences their purchase at all. The durable competitive moat in this business is not the brand on the package. It is the licensed retail door through which that package reaches the consumer. Editor’s note: Eric Offenberger is the […]