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Papa Puff’s Top Articles of the Week! August11, 2019
If you ask Ted Smith where he has gotten his cannabis news updates for the last twenty years, he will tell you… I go to Papa Puff. Why? Because he is obsessed with reading cannabis news, he finds the best, most relevant up to date information. An amazing source of what you need to know, […]
The Many Uses of Industrial Hemp
(This is a sponsored article from a Guest Author) Hemp is one seriously interesting plant. Demonized in the early 1920s, many western countries banned the cultivation of hemp in an attempt to curb the rise in recreational marijuana use that was starting to take hold in societies across the globe. To many, hemp and marijuana […]
Cannabis and Media Sensationalism
Historical Rambles on Cannabis It is instructive to re-visit the role that news sensationalism has played in demonizing cannabis. I paid the topic a visit this week. Sensationalism, we will recall, is the conscious use of exaggeration, manipulative language, dramatic photos, lies, and fabrications, the news equivalent, we might say, of using explosives. Some of […]
Cannabis Sativa. One Plant, Two Laws
A Tale of Two Seeds Kristen Mann For years we have been looking forward to the legalization of this amazing plant but let us not forget that low THC cannabis (hemp) is already legal to grow in Canada and has been since May 1998. However, if you or I wanted to grow a bit of […]