Tag Archive: cannabis

The Differences Between Hemp and Marijuana

Catherine Sherriffs

A truck pulls over at a weigh station at the East Boise Port of Entry in Idaho. During a routine check, state troopers open the trailer and find a green, leafy substance inside – almost 7,000 pounds of it. The trucker is arrested for marijuana trafficking; only he says it’s not marijuana. It’s hemp. True…

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Cannabis Roots May Be Just As Therapeutic As The Rest Of The Plant

Marijuana is said to have many medicinal benefits; science has shown that the flowers of the cannabis plant can help people cope with chronic pain, nausea, and mental health issues. A lesser-known fact is that cannabis roots may also have potential healing powers. Rooted In History The possible benefits associated with cannabis roots is not…
February 8, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs

Magical Moss: Plant May Have Many Health And Medicinal Benefits

There’s a lot more to moss than meets the eye. This soft, lush, low-growing plant comes in various shades of green, and its environmental benefits are plentiful. Science is also finding that some species may even be great for our bodies, even holding some of the same medicinal properties as cannabis. Similar to Cannabis? There…
January 9, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs

UK Doctors Can Now Prescribe Medicinal Cannabis Products

The tides are changing in the United Kingdom, where it is now legal to prescribe cannabis-based medications and products to patients who need them. The new legislation came into effect on November 1st and gives specialist doctors (not general practitioners) the right to prescribe medications containing both CBD and low levels of THC, the latter…
November 28, 2018
Catherine Sherriffs

Accredited Weed Growing Paper Published

Horticultural science researchers published their weed growing study in HortScience. A history in the making event, it is too. Because it’s the first such research paper ever published in North America. Naturally, this study took place in Canada where they’ve made more progress in ending cannabis prohibition than in the US. Still, scientists at Ontario’s…
November 13, 2017
Agent Green

Cannabis Chaos: Marijuana Laws Across North America

With cannabis use legal, in one way or another, in all but seven states in the US, you’d think we’d be approaching something akin to cohesive marijuana law. But that would make sense… instead we have the incoherent approach. For starters, black market marijuana pours over the border from Mexico into illegal US distribution. It’s…
August 14, 2017
Tammy Clayton