Why Effects-based Cannabis Marketing Is Mostly Bullshit
Unpredictability is one of the core challenges of shopping for cannabis. It’s incredibly rare to have a completely custom, controlled experience with weed, and even tougher to duplicate it. To…
The Choice Between Indica and Sativa Is Increasingly Meaningless (and How to Pick Your Weed)
There’s a lot of talk in the consumer cannabis industry about the effects of different strains—indica versus sativa, calming versus energizing, this strain increases focus, that strain promotes creativity, and…
What Is CBN, and Will It Really Help You Sleep?
Photo: Brian Goodman (Shutterstock) The packaging of any given cannabis-derived product will tell you a lot about what it’s supposedly good for—helping you relax and fall asleep, or taking the…
What We Know About Cannabis and Depression
Photo: Stefan Malloch (Shutterstock) Depression is one of the most common mental health issues, and cannabis is the most commonly used federally illegal drug in the United States. People use…
Everything You’ve Ever Wondered About Weed
Every 4/20, publications that don’t typically give any air to weed smoke are suddenly puffing away on puns—and trying to be cool about it. On the other hand, Lifehacker has…
How to Spot Bad Weed
Those pushing for nationwide cannabis legalization hope to see the industry become a fully realized and regulated marketplace, as opposed to the patchwork of more or less restrictive local regulations…
How to Make Edibles Taste Less (or More) Like Weed
Photo: Sam Woolley Commercially made cannabis edibles are increasingly available as adult-use retail sales sweep the nation (in slow motion). Once upon a time, you had to DIY, but today,…
Do ‘Legal’ Weed Alternatives Really Work?
Even as an increasing number of Americans have come to accept the use of cannabis, one thing that hasn’t budged much is how accessible it is. Sure, more states are…
The Difference Between Indoor- and Outdoor-Grown Weed (and Why It Matters)
Photo: MAURO PIMENTEL (Getty Images) Newbie buyers of legal cannabis are confronted with a veritable encyclopedia of new terms and varying options when all they are trying to do is…
EVALI, CHS, and Other Weird Weed Side Effects You Should Be Aware of
The only cannabis news that seems to make it into the mainstream tends to border on the sensational—Maureen Dowd “overdosing” on edibles; police departments issuing warnings about the “threat” of…