Pruning to increase yield: how to prune cannabis, and what the research found
Pruning reshapes a cannabis plant more reliably than it grows the harvest. When to trim fan leaves and lower branches, and what two studies measured.
Self-awareness and marijuana: making sense of a powerful insight
An experience can feel personally meaningful without making every conclusion reliable. Give the thought time, write down the actual claim and revisit it sober.
Growing clones from dispensaries indoors, then cloning them yourself
One good dispensary clone can become a mother plant. How to set up for cloning, take a cutting with two to three nodes, and root it warm and humid.
What is bhang? Cannabis traditions around the world, from India to the Pamirs
Bhang is made from cannabis leaves and drunk at festivals in parts of India. Older still are the braziers of Jirzankal, where cannabis burned 2,500 years ago.
Writers who smoke weed: the documented literary history
Ginsberg described his own use; reporters observed Thompson. Gautier offers a more complicated account of the French hashish circle and Baudelaire.
THCVA effects: what THCVA is, how it becomes THCV and what’s actually known
THCVA is to THCV what THCA is to THC: the raw acid form the plant makes. How it’s built, what a THCVA line on a lab report means and what research covers.
Weed tourism California offers: a practical booking guide
A visitor needs separate answers about buying, where use is permitted and what a booked experience includes. Get those answers before paying.
West coast weed: California history, origin and buying questions
Southern Humboldt archives and San Francisco breeding accounts tell different parts of California cannabis history. A package needs its own origin record.
What is CBL cannabinoid? Cannabicyclol and the evidence
Cannabicyclol has a documented chemical relationship to CBC and an interesting laboratory receptor result, with human questions still open.
CBT cannabinoid benefits: what cannabicitran research shows
A closer look at cannabicitran, the abbreviations used for it and the difference between chemical characterization and evidence of a human benefit.