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Top Reasons for Inhalation

Top Reasons for Inhalation

There are many ways to use cannabis – and more being invented daily.  Unfortunately, most of the new ways are not really an advantage over the old ways, other than selling a new product.  In fact, many are not effective at all.  When it comes down...
Understanding Cannabis Dependence

Understanding Cannabis Dependence

Cannabis, like many medications including common ones like SSRIs, benzodiazepines, opioids, and others, can cause dependence.  This sounds like a bad thing, and it can be.  It is often confused with addiction, which is more commonly recognized as something...
Why I’m Not A Big Fan of Tinctures

Why I’m Not A Big Fan of Tinctures

Cannabinoid medicines have been made in a wide variety of forms; flower, vape pens, edibles, capsules, topicals, and others.  If you’ve been following along, you already know that many of these forms are ineffective like topicals, or downright unsafe like...
What’s With All These New Cannabinoids On The Market?

What’s With All These New Cannabinoids On The Market?

OMG!  The world is exploding with new cannabinoid “medicines” hitting the market.  There are new ones every week.  What do we really know about them and whether they’re useful or even safe? The short story, if you’re not going to...
Should You Grow Your Own Cannabis?

Should You Grow Your Own Cannabis?

For many, cannabis can be a great medicine.  It can help with pain management, anxiety and depression, insomnia, nausea and vomiting, and other symptoms of diseases like cancer, fibromyalgia, Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis, Multiple Sclerosis, ALS, Ehlers...
Celebrities and Medicines Don’t Mix

Celebrities and Medicines Don’t Mix

I’m a fan of Snoop Dog.  And Willie Nelson, Melissa Etheridge, Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Hanks, Jean Luc Picard (er, Patrick Stewart) and quite a few other celebrities who have endorsed or partnered with cannabis companies of late. While celebrities always make...