Alexis Rosenbaum knew something was wrong. Bo, her 13-year-old miniature poodle, hadn’t gone to the bathroom for three days. He couldn’t lift his head, eat, drink or sleep. Usually a playful and energetic poodle, Bo had to be carried around in a baby sling on Rosenbaum’s chest, but he still whimpered and cried from the…
“How are you sleeping lately?” I ask my 86-year-old Medzmama, Armenian for grandmother, on a weeknight in July. We’re playing Uno in her kitchen, but I’m not focused on winning the game. Instead, I ask her to teach me the numbers and colors in Armenian, anything to keep her mind busy. “Not very well,”…
Hemp cultivation for non-pharmaceutical could help revert desiccation of farm land. Italian farmers are in crisis as low prices of wheat, desiccated land and big companies importing grain take their toll. But some have found a solution: growing cannabis. Hemp cultivation has been legal in Italy since 2016, and over the last few years the amount…
It’s easy to hide in the Emerald Triangle. Up in the hills, amidst the redwoods and misty fog, where cell service fails and back roads lead to the middle of nowhere, cannabis cultivators have spent generations growing weed under the radar. At the same time, characters far seedier than the simple grass folk have…
A mother’s campaign to get medical marijuana for her young daughter has come to a happy end. Vera Twomey recently secured a medical marijuana license for her 8-year-old daughter Ava, who suffers from a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet Syndrome. Now, Twomey has announced that her daughter has been taken off all of her previous medications…
This is the Best CBD Strain for Lupus {$excerpt:n} Patients with lupus are engaged in a battle with their own bodies. A difficult-to-treat autoimmune condition, the disease causes immune cells to wage war on otherwise healthy organs and tissues. Fatigue, hair loss, and a chronic state of malaise are all common symptoms. As can…
Are Global Cannabis Markets Moving In Synch? {$excerpt:n} In American political lingo, an “October Surprise” is an event or incident that is deliberately planned to impact a political election – usually during a presidential year. The cannabis industry, of course, is still highly political – starting with reform itself. So what to make of the…
The U.S. Incarcerates Women Who Won’t Turn in Loved Ones Involved in Cannabis {$excerpt:n} Letters from people who need Amy Povah’s help cover her dining room table. She’s always had a lot of work at the CAN-DO foundation, a 100% voluntary organization supporting female pot prisoners and their loved ones. But these days, she…
Meet the cannabis mayor of Augsburg, Germany {$excerpt:n} Martini Meinreiß is a former construction worker, who in his words, “got infected with the cannabis legalization virus” several years ago. His blond-white dreads speak of an earlier chapter in his life spent as a bit of an international adventurer, writes Margueritte Arnold. These days, when…
Colorado Police Try to Prove Cannabis Legalization Increases Crime {$excerpt:n} Police in El Paso County, Colorado are going to start keeping a record of crimes connected to legal cannabis in an attempt to prove that legalization of recreational cannabis increases crime, according to a report from KRDO. Commander John David of the El Paso County…
