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Time to be Blunt

I’m exhausted. Feeling drained. Mental meltdown… I think about cannabis and my head hurts. LOL – *Only with regards to the absolute insanity that surrounds it all on the GRAND SCALE. [su_quote]Don’t sweat the small stuff.[/su_quote] Plant a seed and go to jail.     LOL   How small can you get? You cannot help […]

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High on Glass

Patrick Redbeard Vrolyk About 7 years ago i found myself living on a beautiful farm up in the mountains above Whistler. The property was perfect for a gathering of friends, a gathering of glass. (In our trade when we ‘ball’ up glass, we call that ‘gathering’ glass)  I invited several of my pipe-making colleagues up […]

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Why I am a Hemp Nut

Most people became involved in the cannabis movement to free the weed that we love to smoke.  Not me.  I got involved in this fight primarily to help hemp become legal and widely used.  In every way possible, I am a hemp nut. Granted, I have spent most of my energy fighting to legalize the […]

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The edible arms race

[su_quote] How much is too much? How many should I take? When should I take them? [/su_quote] Questions like these have been asked at dispensaries across North America for nearly two decades – patients seeking relief and looking for answers their doctors just can’t provide. The answer to each one of these questions is invariably […]

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Divided We Fall . . .

  It’s hard to explain to an outsider what is happening in the United States regarding cannabis laws. I don’t understand how a country called the UNITED states of America can be so ‘UN-united’. Imagine being a mother in the united states when  your child is suffering, dying from illness you know Cannabis can help […]

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Cannabinoid Receptors in the body and their Importance

In 1964 Raphael Macheoulam, an Israeli professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, isolated the key component THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) from an extract of a Cannabis Sativa plant. THC is the compound in Cannabis (Marijuana) that causes the euphoria and other medicinal effects.  He also isolated  cannabidiol, cannabigerol […]