Now that the marijuana movement has proved successful enough to give life to a whole new LEGAL industry, it has given rise to an incredible wave of growth. Some of this is clearly making things better for the consumer; great product options, easy availability, steady pricing, no shady meet ups with a guy that’s a friend of a friend of a guy. Some of it is arguably making it worse; companies driven by production and marketing forces can cut corners on other key quality metrics. Also lost is the experience of sneaking away with your close friends to defy the expectations of others and defend your sacred community. We cannot lose sight about what led to this moment however. The important culture, and community that rose together to defy and fight back against the oppression in the name of a plant.

A team of researchers in Poland has found a number of benefits to farm raised poultry from the consumption of hemp based additives in their feed.  Recently published in Animals, their paper is an analysis of several other studies and it is from this data that the...

Recycling Toxic Waste Hemp has shown throughout history that it is an incredibly versatile and useful plant. Over the course of millennia humans have cultivated and bred the cannabis plant for both its fibers and for the phytochemical rich resins but there is another...

Scientists evaluate the suitability of hemp as an ornamental plant By now, most of us are familiar with some of the most popular and historic uses for the cannabis plant. We know about the psychoactive effects of some of the chemicals produced by the plant and we know...

Researchers at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found an unlikely ally in the fight against antibiotic resistant infections. Since the discovery of Penicillin, humanity has been locked in an arms race with pathogenic bacteria. For decades, scientists have...

This may be a depiction of one of those fish. Nobody can say for sure... A recent study out of Brazil claims to be the first of its kind to show significant benefits from ingested CBD for fish kept in artificial environments.  The study was carried out on Nile...

Many of us have wondered to ourselves at some point about the origin of hemp.  This valuable plant has been an agricultural star for almost as long as cereal grains!  Ibn Waḥshiyya, a 10th-century scholar from Kufa (modern day Iraq) speculated that hemp had arrived in...

Do you know about the role that hemp played in the French invasion of Russia? Most people don’t. Our educational system often seems to have missed important details about history, if they are related to cannabis. This is perhaps most evident when looking at the role that hemp played during colonial times. Not aware that hemp was an important aspect of life during this time? Again, most people aren’t.

There is often a lot of confusion about CBD and it’s effects on the body. Would you be surprised to learn that CBD IS psychoactive? Find out how here!

THC, THCV, THCB, THCP, c’mon! You gotta be making this up right?!? As cannabis legalization has started in states all across the country, it has led to an explosion of cannabis knowledge and information. Far from the days of THC (Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol) is the thing in cannabis that gets you high, there are now a huge variety of cannabinoids found on the market and being discussed in social media. Oftentimes the nomenclature used for these is quite confusing to anyone that hasn’t delved deep into the subject. It doesn’t help that the library of cannabinoids being identified is constantly expanding.