Cannabis Is Being Sidelined In The Opioid Crisis For One Infuriating Reason VICTORIA, B.C.—This year, new safe injection sites and overdose prevention units have gained federal approval to operate in Toronto, Vancouver, Surrey, and Victoria. While Canada’s first safe injection site, Insite, has seen well over 6,000 overdoses since their facility opened in 2003, there…
Access to cannabis-derived medicines to be made easier The Drug Dependency Act, introduced in 2015 brought about the idea of treatment rather than imprisonment for those caught with small quantities of prohibited drugs for personal use. The same law also spoke of the medicinal use of cannabis All doctors may soon be able to prescribe…
Chill Out CBD Users, You Have Nothing To Fear Says DEA Spokesman Despite the fact that the FDA recently came down on companies selling CBD as a cancer treatment, the DEA seems to be developing its own, more relaxed attitude when it comes to the cannabinoid. The announcement is a confusing move, not only because…
International addiction expert Johann Hari says Vancouver should be proud of Downtown Eastside UK journalist Johann Hari, who's 2014 book Chasing the Scream was a New York Times bestseller, is scheduled to speak in downtown Vancouver at … Source: Chasing the Scream
Lots of laws are getting voted on, added, and amended across the United States to create legal cannabis markets and medical marijuana dispensation. It can get pretty confusing between decriminalization, medical legalization, and the growing recreational industry, so we broke state legislation down for you. Where is marijuana decriminalized? Even though it’s technically not…
The late Marshall McLuhan, one of the great media theorists of all time, famously quipped “the medium is the message.” In other words, the medium on which you experience media—television, newspaper, magazines—affect the way you perceive the meaning. It’s why people buy depression medication, even if it includes the side effect of depression: If…
As the opioid epidemic has reached seriously tragic heights overdoses are at the forefront of headlines everywhere. Media coverage is often focused on the deadly shift away from expensive prescription opioids to the cheaper alternative heroin or synthetic opioids like fentanyl. What that coverage has missed is another worrying trend which has been hidden…
Let’s face it, baking edibles sucks. You basically need a chemistry degree to figure out how to achieve the right temperature to decarboxylate without burning your bud. Half the time the final product has the vague taste of stale weed and is so dry that swallowing it is more of a chore than a pleasure.…
Some people like to call marijuana users “burnouts.” But it’s comforting to know just how many prominent historical figures would fall into the same category. Marijuana has been alleviating stress and maximizing leisure time for centuries. Studies have also found that the highly intelligent people smoke more marijuana. So it should be no surprise…
BioTrackTHC To The Rescue: Contingency Plan for Washington According to a press release published this morning, BioTrackTHC successfully implemented their Universal Cannabis System (UCS) in Washington State, a temporary solution for the state’s seed-to-sale cannabis tracking system, while the new system is yet to be deployed. BioTrackTHC had a contract with Washington State for four…
