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The Brain Doesn’t Age the Way We Were Told — At Least Not If You Smoke Weed
For the better part of a century, the story has been simple: cannabis fries your brain. Doesn’t matter when you started, doesn’t matter how much — smoke it long enough and something in there is shrinking. That’s the narrative that’s been baked into policy, into PSAs, into the collective gut feeling of anyone over fifty […]
How CPG Standardization Can Help Cannabis Edibles Scale
Imagine buying a standard over-the-counter pain reliever in Miami, and then buying the same brand in Denver, only to find the second bottle is twice as potent because of the altitude where it was manufactured. In any mainstream industry, this could trigger an immediate federal recall. In the cannabis industry, it is a daily operational […]
Cannabis Gummies Move Into the Multivitamin Aisle
As cannabis brands look for new ways to reach consumers, some are developing products that look less like recreational edibles and more like daily wellness supplements. The latest example comes from MariMed Inc.’s Betty’s Eddies™, which has introduced Betty’s Bite-A-Mins, a daily wellness chew that combines cannabinoids with a multivitamin-inspired formula. The tropical smoothie-flavored chews […]
An Open Letter to the Prohibitionists, From an Old School Stoner
To whoever is still out there drafting the next crackdown, still lobbying to walk back forty years of hard-won ground, still convinced that if you just tighten the screws one more turn the plant will disappear: I want to talk to you directly, one adult to another, without the theater. I’m an old school stoner. […]
The Rescheduling Circus- Notes from the Cannabis Rescheduling Hearing You Might Have Missed
Let’s start with the headline nobody in Washington wants to print: marijuana is still illegal. Not “illegal-ish.” Not “illegal with an asterisk.” Federally, under the Controlled Substances Act, cannabis remains a Schedule I narcotic, officially grouped with heroin and LSD, officially declared to have no accepted medical use. That fact hasn’t moved an inch this […]
CBD Payment Processing Mistakes That Can Freeze Revenue Overnight
A rolling reserve on a high-risk account holds 5% to 10% of every sale for as long as 180 days. For a CBD merchant, that money is real revenue kept out of reach, and a single processor decision can turn a slow hold into a full freeze overnight. The freeze is rarely random. It follows […]
The Entourage Effect Isn’t One Thing: What a New Receptor Study Actually Found
For years, the cannabis world has treated “the entourage effect” like settled science, a comforting shorthand for why whole-plant weed hits different than an isolated THC pill. Terpenes and cannabinoids work together, the story goes, adding up to more than the sum of their parts. It’s a nice idea. It’s also, according to a new […]
Cannabis Quality Conference Call for Abstracts is Now Open
Do you have practical insights that can help advance cannabis quality, safety, compliance, or laboratory science? The Cannabis Quality Conference is accepting presentation proposals for its 2026 conference, co-located with the 15th Anniversary Food Safety Consortium Conference & Expo, taking place October 21 to 23 in Washington, DC. Abstract submission Deadline: July 31 Submit your […]
Why Dietary Supplements Are the First Pathway for Cannabis Medicine
The cannabis industry has spent years waiting for this moment. As federal rescheduling moves forward, so do the opportunities to develop cannabinoid-based supplements and medicines backed by more rigorous scientific research. For some companies, this isn’t a new direction. It’s the payoff from years of work happening behind the scenes. Alleh Lindquist, CEO and co-founder […]
A Field Guide to American Weed for World Cup Visitors
The Washington State Department of Health just published a health advisory for FIFA World Cup visitors. It includes the standard warnings: start low, go slow, don’t drive, don’t mix with alcohol, edibles can take three hours and last up to 24. It is responsible, accurate, and completely inadequate for anyone who has never encountered what’s […]