Josh Jardine

FatCamera/Getty Images With all the expensive and visually intimidating security equipment and other measures that licensed cannabis producers are required install and maintain, you wouldn’t think weed thefts would be a concern. Sun-grown and greenhouse crops are a different story, based on the tens of thousands of square feet they occupy. But indoor? To paraphrase […]

JUSTIN SULLIVAN / GETTY Time for yet another entry my long-running series “Just Legalize the Damn Plant Already: Federal Edition.” Much like The Big Bang Theory was, it’s a terrible series with bad actors that has been going on for far too long. As you may recall, cannabis has been illegal at the federal level […]

Are you into the science of cannabis? No, for real though—do you bore people with your excitedly long-winded ravings abut weed, using fancy 75-cent words? Are graphs, charts, and PowerPoint presentations about cannabis what makes you happy? Then it’s time to go, get your geek on, go, get your geek on—at the return of next […]

gawriloff/Getty Images At a party this weekend, I set up a vaporizer station with different kinds of flower. A woman came up and asked if it was safe. “Because I keep hearing about hundreds of people vaping and ending up in the hospital, and I understand one just died, so I’m concerned…” Yes, death by […]

The Cannabiz Agency/Getty Images Where do women stand in the labor force, aside from underpaid? According to the US Department of Labor, “Of the 123 million women age 16 years and over in the U.S., 72 million, or 58.6 percent, were labor force participants—working or looking for work. Women comprised 47 percent of the total […]

Meg Nanna The legalization of hemp as a crop has led to some great things. (Yay, hemp!) But nothing is everything all the time, and legal hemp is causing some massive headaches for officials in Florida (much like the type of headaches you get when you smoke hemp). It’s a very special Florida problem—which should […]

Do you enjoy bitching and moaning about the things Portland gets wrong with cannabis policy? Ooooooh, me too! Grumbling about ganja and how the city deals with it is a fine way to pass some time, especially when done while burning down a fat one and holding forth with insights like, “The City, man, they […]

BOONCHAI WEDMAKAWAND/GETTY IMAGES Through reports and anecdotal evidence, cannabis has been touted to offer benefits to those dealing with cancer, and to alleviate the side effects of cancer treatment. The reduction of anxiety, nausea, pain, and loss of appetite make cannabis a seeming wonder drug that many caregivers will attest to all day long. A […]

SageElyse / Getty Images There are reasons why someone could be opposed to a regulated cannabis program: religious beliefs, or concerns it’ll lead to the abuse of far more dangerous substances, or ignorance over pot’s impact and effects. Oh, and children—won’t someone please think of the children! (Just not in a Jeffrey Epstein way.) Those […]

Okay, to be fair, outbreaks of the munchies CAN sometimes be blamed on cannabis. wildpixel/Getty Images As wonderful as cannabis can be, it’s important we don’t view it as the be-all and end-all to solve every issue, and its limited drawbacks should be owned. The way I see it, there are two legitimate problems with […]