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It’s fitting that 2020 - a year that caused massive anxiety and stress - was also a breakthrough year for psychedelic therapies. Mushrooms, ketamine, MDMA and other drugs are proving to successfully treat mental health and addiction issues

Infusing cannabis into tea and other hot beverages has a long history of providing calm and relieving pain. Making cannabis tea is quite easy, which may also explain its enduring popularity with stoners. Here are two simple recipes for weed tea and tisane.

Many of us will admit to combining weed and alcohol from time to time. Obviously, moderation is a good thing. But your experience may also depend on which substance you start with: drinking or consuming cannabis. Here's how to combine marijuana and alcohol safely this holiday season,

Dogs, cats and other furry children are the latest target market for CBD products, ranging from oils and tinctures to foods and treats. CBD may help a wide variety of ailments but proper dosage and product quality is important.

Once upon a time, being a savvy stoner meant knowing the difference between the main cannabis strains: Indica for relaxation; Sativa for uplift, plus hybrid strains for a bit of both. But new research into the plant is giving terpenes an important role in cannabis’ effects.

Lucky Canadians celebrated the second year of cannabis legalization on October 18, 2020. After a shaky start, stores are sprouting across Canada, and prices are going down. Here's a look at legal weed today, and a glimpse ahead.

Pot. Grass. Weed. Wikipedia lists 1,200 slang names for cannabis alone, with many more expressions to describe marijuana quality, its effects and the people who smoke it. Here are some of the more common slang terms for cannabis.

Each method of consuming cannabis has differing effects. Smoking weed gets you an immediate but shorter lived high. Ingesting cannabis takes more time, but the effects can be stronger and last much longer.

It was only in the spoilsport Victorian era of the 1800s that tobacco pipe smoking became firmly gendered: men smoked pipes, respectable women did not. But of course all sorts of wonderfully non-respectable women continued to smoke pipes.

If you are at all familiar with the cannabis plant, you probably know that THC is the stuff that gets you high. But what about CBD? This non-intoxicating chemical is turning up everywhere, from gummy bears to cosmetics to pet medicines. And happy days: some of the claims for CBD are borne out by science.

Legalization of cannabis is giving the humble roach clip another turn in the spotlight. Joint smokers have the economical option of grinding cannabis flower and rolling their own, or the convenience of tightly packed pre-rolls with built-in filters. Like hippies grooving in the Haight, to enjoy every last bit of your purchase, you’re going to need a roach clip. 

Kief is basically trichome dust. Pronounced with a long e (think keef), the name is derived from an Arabic word meaning “pleasure” or “intoxication,” and kief certainly offers both. The easiest way to enjoy kief is to collect it when you grind your cannabis flowers. Here a few ways to consume kief, from simply smoking it to making hasish and cooking with kief.