Cannabis Corner
Finding out how pot does its thing — it’s complicated
All alcoholic beverages have one thing in common — alcohol. With marijuana, well, it’s complicated.
The female pot plant contains at least 113 separate cannabinoids,...
Canadian parliament just legalized marijuana
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made marijuana legalization a major plank in his successful 2015 campaign, and earlier this week he delivered on his...
The Empire Strikes Back: New England Edition
If you think this year’s fleet of marijuana legalization initiatives will sail effortlessly and majestically to victory, think again.
Unlike 2012, when Colorado and Washington’s...
Nixon went to China. Will Trump go to pot?
Will Donald Trump go to pot? Stranger things have happened.
I’ve been wondering about this for some time now. Will Trump de-schedule marijuana under the...
Dem presidential candidates get on the legalization bandwagon
If you want a seat on the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential bandwagon, you better be in favor of legalizing marijuana at the federal level.
That,...
The making of the President — pot edition
Could marijuana legalization have an impact on the outcome of the presidential election? Yes, and in more ways than one.
The most obvious way pot...
Three-dot journalism comes to Cannabis Corner
And then there were five. At midnight last Saturday (July 1) Nevada became the fifth state in which recreational marijuana could be sold and...
Marijuana vs. Cancer: The evidence is growing
Researchers at Amity University in India recently produced a literature survey of papers on the use of natural and synthetic cannabis compounds to treat...
Yikes! Sessions!
The mainstream media has taken time out from its busy schedule of compulsively re-writing Donald Trump’s obituary to report that Trump’s appointment of Alabama...
Pot enters presidential politics with a bang
If marijuana wasn’t an issue in the 2020 presidential campaign before the second Democratic candidates’ debate, it sure is now.
Two brutally blunt exchanges —...
In a latter-day miracle, Israel’s election outcome may hinge on pot
Back in December, when Israel declared that it would hold a national election (scheduled for April 9), a political party named Zehut was so...
And yet another look at weed delivery…
Ladies and gentlemen, the new era of high-class weed buying is on the horizon, making it so you would no longer have to leave...
