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The End of the ‘Wine Mom’: Why Millions of Parents Are Trading Alcohol for Cannabis
Picture the scene. It’s 8:47 p.m. The toddler has finally surrendered after a negotiation that would have exhausted a UN envoy. The kitchen looks like a small, sticky hurricane passed through. A children’s song you have now heard 340 times is still looping in your skull. And then, quietly, a parent steps onto the back […]
What Wine and Tobacco Know About Their Consumers That Cannabis Does Not
Cannabis tracks its products more closely than most consumer categories. State traceability systems follow regulated plants and packages from seed to sale, and many states publish monthly sales totals. The industry knows far less about the person at the other end of the sale: who that customer is, why they bought, and what they will […]
Everyone is at Work Today? Why Legal Weed is the Real Reason Your Coworkers Stopped Calling in Sick
Legal Weed Could Be the Reason Your Coworkers Stopped Calling in Sick Now this is a workplace plot twist that we didn’t see coming! For a long time, office jobs and cannabis culture were always on opposite sides, not parts of life that you put together. After all, work was something you just had to […]
The THC Myth: Why Twice the THC Doesn’t Mean Twice the High
The THC Number Is Lying to You (Sort Of) I have watched a grown man stand at a dispensary counter, squinting at two jars of flower like he was choosing between vintages of Bordeaux, before picking the one labeled 27% THC because, and I quote, “the number’s bigger.” Reader, I have been that man. Most […]
88% of Americans Support Legal Weed: The Poll Numbers Destroying Cannabis Stigma
Most Americans Don’t Think Weed Is That Bad for You, and the Numbers Might Surprise You For most of the last century, cannabis has been portrayed as a danger to public health. It has been demonized, called the gateway drug, and blamed for being a bad habit that compromises responsibilities while putting society at risk. […]
How to Maximize Cannabis Yield: 5 Croptober Myths & Proven Tactics
Croptober Tricks & Treats: Raising Monster Buds Five under-appreciated techniques, one graveyard of myths, and honest reality checks on each It’s mid-October, which means two things: outdoor growers across the northern hemisphere are squinting at frost forecasts, and every plant I’ve ever loved looks like a small, sticky, pot-bellied monster. This year I promised myself […]
The DEA Approved an Ayahuasca Church—Can You Start a Cannabis Religion?
Holy Smoke: Can You Start a Religion, and Should You? Religious exemptions, courtroom cautionary tales, and a frank audit of a joke I’m no longer sure was a joke This month an Iowa church got what every sacramental-plant congregation dreams about: a path to legally import and brew ayahuasca. It took eight years, a lost […]
Why CO? Management Matters in Commercial Cannabis Cultivation
In commercial cannabis cultivation, deciding to enrich with CO? is often straightforward. The key challenge is maintaining the intended concentration consistently without wasting gas, disrupting humidity control, or creating worker-safety risks. CO? enrichment works as part of an environmental system. Light intensity, leaf temperature, irrigation, air movement, dehumidification, HVAC operation, canopy density, and CO? concentration […]
The 5 Celebrities Who Could Force Washington to Legalize Cannabis Overnight
If These 5 People Said They Smoked Weed, the Country Would Legalize It The American cannabis industry is currently trapped in a bizarre purgatory. Despite being a multi-billion-dollar economic engine, employing hundreds of thousands of people, and enjoying majority support from voters across the political spectrum, federal legalization remains stalled. Lawmakers demand more data, banking […]