Category: Wake & Bake Feature

Nicely pitched piece that quietly explores the way we discuss and write about drugs in public forums..

Thanks to Esquire for the listing…..

In the newly released Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America, cartoonist Box Brown looks back through history to see how cannabis came to the U.S. and how two of history’s most powerful nations worked to create a narrative of fear and immorality around the drug. Reports Gizmodo

Cannabis also enhances things like food and sex—two things you and your partner are presumably already regularly enjoying together. Though I look back fondly at the years me and my ex spent together, I also look back and think how much more fun we could have had if cannabis had been part of our relationship, as opposed to a behavior I felt I needed to suppress.

Great article by Sam Eichner For the Outline.. we know exactly how he feels …….”That’s why lately I pine for bad weed. The shwag. The shake. The plastic baggie full of crumbly and parched green-brown leaves….”

So next time you go on vacation don’t leave it in the stash box next to the bed .. put it in with the ice cream

A great read….”Marijuana also contains several monoterpenoids – small, aromatic molecules – that have a wide range of activities including pain and anxiety relief and that work by inhibiting TRP channels.”

Wonderful piece about cannabis reviews and world’s away from trolls, trump et al . Literary Hub write, “There is a joyful corner of the internet where people don’t argue, trolls don’t troll, and the only kind of self-consciousness is an exploration of consciousness itself: the review sections of marijuana websites, where users of all stripes write eclectic assessments of their favorite weed strains. These reviews contain entire worlds of humor, honesty, pathos, and narrative. They read like the most captivating and confessional short stories, and sometimes—if you’re lucky—the reviewer becomes more vivid than a fully-realized literary character. “

Why might these Rastamen use marijuana only for religious rituals, while many recreational pot users have the risk of addiction and abuse? For instance, in India, where marijuana is used both recreationally and for religious ceremonies, the abuse profile is 3.2%

In their cannabis genome mapping project researchers found THC and CBD, bioactive substances produced by cannabis and sought by medical patients and recreational users, sprung to life thanks to ancient colonization of the plant’s genome by viruses.