Review: Pre-Made Rolls: Party Phaverz Disposable Pipes

By Benji Garcia-Reyes IG: @themedimexican I love science and medicating efficient and effectively. I also appreciate a good cannabis pre-roll. Both because of how they medicate and that they are disposable. Just in case you can't hide or keep it. When experienced patients hear "pre-rolls," they expect the worst of what's left. Granted, it's because those are the free ones. There...

Riley Cote of Hemp Heals

By Jordan Gesko IG: @jordangesko Jordan Gesko: How long you been doing Hemp Heals and what is your mission? Riley Cote: The Hemp Heals was founded in 2011 as an educational platform to promote hemp as a viable agricultural crop. Helping people reconnect to the natural world through one amazing sustainable plant. JG: What is the Pennsylvania Hemp Industry Council and who...

Subpar Security Operations Will Be Your Company's Achilles Heel

By Warren Pulley, VP Project 7 Security Group Twitter: @p7securitygroup I've been interacting with cannabis entrepreneurs to discuss cannabis security operations around the State of California in preparation for the commercial boom of marijuana sales in 2018. I am surprised at just how many of these entrepreneurs have already determined with whom they will be working. From which growers to purchase...

The Top 5 Ways Marijuana Affects Women vs. Men

By Brittany Morgan Williams Many medicines affect men and women differently, but due to the inherent sexism in the medical field (and nearly every other industry), there is nowhere near as much information on what works best for a woman’s body compared to what works best for men’s bodies. Naturally produced hormones and estrogen greatly impact both a woman’s...

Endotoxins and Mycotoxins

By Kevin She During a recent conversation with a Cannabis/Medical Marijuana industry consultant, we again heard about another licensed operator whose facilities had become contaminated with mold and other microorganisms. Despite lengthy, costly, and downright Herculean efforts to remediate their facilities, the infestation had become endemic and could not be eradicated, and every crop that they produced could not pass...

Interview With JTreel

By Nate Whitsell IG: @SDLovesHipHop JTreel is like Lauryn Hill – a mad scientist who experiments on himself first, to make sure that his science works. He has found the right formula and is moving forward, bearing wisdom to share with those ready to go to the next level. JTreel has been on multiple national tours as one-half of the San...

La Yerba es Buena por Mexico

By Benjie Cooper IG: @nuglifenews YouTube: Lucid's Vlog On August 21, 2009, Mexico began a reversal of domestic cannabis policies that had been in place since the 1920s when the country first banned the plant's export, production, sale, and recreational use. The change came when President Felipe Calderón signed a controversial law that decriminalized, among other substances, up to five grams of...

Pursuing CARERS in Congress

By Benjie Cooper IG: @nuglifenews YouTube: Lucid's Vlog On March 10, 2015, Senators Rand Paul , Kirsten Gillibrand , and Cory Booker introduced a new bill to bring about medical cannabis reform at the federal level. The bipartisan group of Senators rolled out a short piece of legislation known as S.683, the Compassionate Access, Research Expansion, and Respect States Rights (CARERS)...

Wrapping Up June, National Pride Month

By Cara Anderson IG: @carajojo June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual Pride month. June commemorates the Stonewall Riots of New York City in June 1969. Although President Trump did not formally declare June as National Pride Month, it has been formally recognized as so since 2000. The LGBTQIA community has endured criticism, violence, oppression, and deserves to celebrate how...

The Hangover

By Katie Burke Most people have experienced some hangover in their life. The most common type of hangover is experienced by consuming too much alcohol but, due to this being a cannabis newspaper we will explore the weed hangover. The weed hangover is very much controversial. In part due to the lack of studies and research on it. For example,...