Article by Melia Robinson and Jeremy Berke, Business Insider Marijuana sales could hit $20 billion by 2020, with help from the ever-growing vaporizer market. Vaping is an alternative to smoking that involves inhaling vapor from an electronic device.Some research suggests vaping is less harmful than lighting up because it doesn’t require igniting a material and inhaling carcinogens and toxins along with ...

Article by Ottawa Citizen As reefer is being repositioned as less harmful, even medicinal, counting among its benefits the disempowering of organized crime and the increase of tax revenue, the re-codifying of the language we use around it is already underway. BEFORE Marijuana [mar-uh-wah-nuh] noun Definition: Common, but outdated pejorative term for cannabis. Usage: “When marijuana is smoked, it can ...

Article by Emily Gray Brosious, Extract “Marijuana has been called a gateway drug, but is marijuana the new gateway drug out of opioid addiction?” Mehmet Oz, physician and host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” asks in a recent segment featuring Krishna Andavolu, host of VICELAND’s “Weediquette.” Oz and Andavolu discuss the rise of Americans using marijuana as a method for ...

Article by Lauren Maul, Merry Jane The first vape sesh after a six-hour plane ride is a beautiful thing. I inhaled deeply and soaked in the scenery as I waited for the bus to take me into town. I spotted an older American lady nearby firing up her vape and gazing into the Irish clouds. I gave her a nod ...

Article by Amy Eisinger, Hamilton Spectator Whether you use it yourself, have a friend who does or know someone who moved to Colorado for not-so-secret reasons, you probably have an opinion about weed. Marijuana is no longer a taboo stoner drug reserved for hippies. Cannabis (the proper name for weed) has been used as medicine for millennia. But as aspirins ...

Article by Ellen Scott, Metro.co.uk Look, we’re not saying that this is a smart idea. And we’d definitely recommend against trying to recreate this product at home, because mixing wine with weed is a very, very easy way to throw up, pass out, and regret everything the next day. We’re just letting you know that weed-infused wine is indeed a ...

Article by Ciara Dolan, The Portland Mercury MY ROOMMATE Emily Weatherford is the Ms. Frizzle of weed science—she’s a chemist at Portland’s Green Leaf Lab (greenleaflab.org), which tests cannabis before it’s legally allowed to be sold at dispensaries. From my very basic understanding of the weed business, legalization labs have been scrambling to get accredited by ORELAP (Oregon Environmental Laboratory ...

Article by Merry Jane “I use CBD,” says Pascal Pakter, CEO and founder of the successful martial arts apparel company Hyperfly. “And CBD has saved my life.” A former Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighter, Pakter injured two vertebrae while training, necessitating surgery that left him in a world of pain and with a seven-inch scar on his neck. Prescribed addictive opiates by ...

Article by Seth Ferrant, The Fix Freeway Ricky Ross’ name is synonymous with the dope game. In the capitalistic ’80s, when he was trafficking hundreds of kilos at a time, Freeway inadvertently became the poster boy for the crack era—a homegrown South Central, Los Angeles product who basically invented the retail market for crack cocaine, enabling him to generate upwards ...

Article by Toronto Sun An Ohio mother had the shock of her life Tuesday after she claims she found marijuana in her four-year-old daughter’s french fries she ordered from Wendy’s. Dezeray Risner, of Springfield, Ohio, said she was alerted to the pot-laced food after her young daughter told her the fries “tasted funny and were ‘yucky,’” according to a police ...