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Fast Company
February 2004
Bill Breen |
The Cannabis Conundrum As the founder of a British pharmaceutical company puts it, if it weren't called marijuana there would be an entire biotech business built around this plant. And that's just what's starting to happen (but not for the U.S. drug industry or the American patients these medicines might help).   |
Fast Company
February 2004 |
Pot Proponent Just Says No Medical marijuana's elder statesman is not convinced that the therapeutic benefits of cannabis can be separated from the psychoactive effects -- or that cannabis should be "pharmaceuticalized." |
Chemistry World
February 3, 2015 |
High hopes The multi-target, rebalancing properties of cannabinoids also explains why they show promise as drugs in such a wide variety of conditions. |
Fast Company
February 2004
Bill Breen |
Pipe Dream? Rick Doblin has a prescription for fixing NIDA's ailing medical-marijuana program: establish an alternative. |
Chemistry World
February 17, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Clinical trials high on list for medical marijuana community The drug's controlled status is continuing to slow efforts to investigate the myriad compounds in the plant. |
Fast Company
Alex Halperin |
The California-Colorado Cannabis War While California is the largest addressable cannabis market in the USA, the risks associated with setting up there outweighed the benefits. |
Reactive Reports
October 2007
David Bradley |
How Cannabis Works What is it about the psychoactive component in marijuana, THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, that exerts its special effects? New clues about the cannabinoid receptor type 1 have now emerged thanks to German researchers. |
CFO
September 1, 2010
Leibs & Tedesco |
"It Wouldn't Matter if It Was Widgets." While there may be no such thing as a typical CFO, it's a safe bet that Richard Cowan is less typical than most. An interview with Richard Cowan, CFO, Cannabis Science Inc. |
Science News
September 14, 2002
Janet Raloff |
Afghanistan's Seed Banks Destroyed On Sept. 10, scientists in Kabul reported the loss of Afghanistan's principal agricultural insurance policy: two stores of carefully collected seeds, materials selected to represent the genetic diversity of native crops. |
Reason
April 2002
Jacob Sullum |
Pot Stops In the United States, it's clearly not true that no one gets arrested for smoking pot anymore. But it looks like that will soon be the case in Britain, home of Europe's harshest drug laws... |
Chemistry World
March 24, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Chemists in demand as cannabis industry experiences explosive growth The US's rapidly growing cannabis industry -- medical and recreational -- desperately needs chemists. That was the conclusion of a session at the American Chemical Society's spring conference. |
This Old House
Therese Ciesinski |
Check out These Seeds From Your Local Library Of the roughly 17,000 public libraries across the country, about 350 are now "lending" seeds, up from just a handful 15 years ago. |
Salon.com
July 19, 2000
Colin Moynihan |
Pot shots Two hot marijuana magazines are threatening High Times' hemp hegemony. |
Chemistry World
May 15, 2009
Katrina Megget |
Tripping over red tape The UK may be moving a step closer to allowing the use of a cannabis-based drug to treat the symptoms of multiple sclerosis |
Mother Jones
February 2001
Evelyn Nieves |
Half an Ounce of Healing The desperately ill members of a Santa Cruz marijuana club aren't growing pot to get high or make money. They just want to find some relief... |
AskMen.com
June 29, 2003
Bernie Alexander |
Worldwide Marijuana Sanctions This article explores the way the justice systems of different countries, such as the Netherlands, Mexico and Thailand, deal with crimes involving marijuana |
AskMen.com
October 28, 2000
Joshua Levine |
The Benefits Of Marijuana Are you sick of hearing your girlfriend nagging you about letting go of your pot pasttime? Have you been hearing a lot of negative things about the use of marijuana lately? Would you like to know what the real deal is behind the use of this infamous drug? |
Reason
April 2007
Jacob Sullum |
Data: America's Biggest Cash Crop According to a conservative think tank, agricultural price supports cost American consumers about $27 billion a year by making food more expensive. But that figure omits the government's biggest price support program: the war on drugs. |
Salon.com
August 31, 2000
David Tuller |
Striking down medical marijuana San Francisco's pro-pot district attorney discusses the long-term implications of the Supreme Court's ruling. |
Reason
March 2002
Sara Rimensnyder |
One Toke over the Line In effect, the nation's highest court decided that state laws legalizing cannabis for medical use weren't worth a dime bag... |
Salon.com
June 13, 2002
Douglas Cruickshank |
"Pot Planet" by Brian Preston A marijuana connoisseur travels around the world seeking out the people who grow, smoke and worship weed -- and the people who try to stop them. |
Reason
January 2002
Jacob Sullum |
Seeds of Discord It turns out that the hand cream you bought at The Body Shop last year was a controlled substance. But it's not anymore. Probably. This is the upshot of two rules the Drug Enforcement Administration unveiled in October... |
BusinessWeek
March 17, 2011
Justin Blum |
Cultivating Real Profits from Fake Weed Attempts by states to bar sales of substances that induce a marijuana-like high have been thwarted by nimble entrepreneurs. |
Managed Care
August 2005 |
Dronabinol Can't Replace Medical Marijuana Controversy regarding Marinol revolves around it's synthesized, single compound and the time it tales to become effective. |
Salon.com
March 29, 2001
Daryl Lindsey |
Up in smoke The U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to close down California's pot buyer's clubs... |
National Gardening
Kathy Bond Borie |
Seed Catalog Savvy Reading between the lines to find the best varieties for your garden... |
| AskMen.com |
Is Weed Recession Proof? Machete-wielding police officers have hacked their way through billions of dollars worth of marijuana in the country's top pot-growing states to stave off a bumper crop sprouting in the tough economy. |
Reason
February 2007
Greg Beato |
Pot Clubs in Peril Are San Francisco zoning boards a bigger threat to medical marijuana than the DEA? |
BusinessWeek
October 27, 2010
Sheelah Kolhatkar |
Reefer Sadness for Pot Farmers In Northern California's Humboldt County, small marijuana growers find the legalization of their business could be the worst thing that ever happened to them. |
Fast Company
Alice Truong |
Move Over, Air Jordan: Celebrity-Branded Weed Is Here Come this time next year, dispensary shelves will have to make way for a new line of celebrity-branded marijuana strains. |
Chemistry World
October 16, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
Cannabis chemists look for professional recognition The American Chemical Society is being petitioned to create a professional division for cannabis chemists to serve the needs of analytical chemists in the cannabis industry. |
Salon.com
January 31, 2001
Chris Colin |
Doctor's orders: Get high A trip into the medical marijuana demimonde smokes out America's confusion about drugs, pleasure and morality... |
| National Gardening |
Growing Onions As with most vegetables, you can start onions from seed in the garden. But many onions have relatively long growing seasons and onion seeds don't germinate quickly, so it's often better to start the crop another way. You can set out transplants, or you can plant "sets" (half-grown onions). |
Reason
January 2006
Jacob Sullum |
That Chemo Cachet Medical marijuana and kids: Hard as it is to believe, it appears that promoting marijuana as a medicine for cancer and AIDS patients does not make it seem cooler to American teenagers. |
This Old House
Therese Ciesinsk |
How to Save Seeds You can't return "borrowed" seeds without harvesting and drying them first. All it takes is a few simple steps. |
AskMen.com
Stephen Pym |
Pot Stocks On Fire, Lighting Up Market There are several marijuana-related stocks you can buy, across a diverse array of companies ranging from holding companies to services to technology. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Brian Doherty |
Weed Control: Feds make bad dealers Marijuana research in the United States is dominated by a lone, big-muscled monopolist: the federal government. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
Palmeri & Marois |
The Latest Fiscal Buzz? Medical Marijuana Cities are taxing marijuana dispensaries to trim budget deficits. |
Reason
January 2004
Jacob Sullum |
Seed Case First the Drug Enforcement Administration tried to ban hemp foods by claiming they've been illegal for three decades; it's just that no one noticed until recently. In June the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected that gambit, forcing the DEA to issue new regulations. |
Chemistry World
June 24, 2008
Hayley Birch |
Anti-Inflammatory Compound From Cannabis Found in Herbs A compound found in cannabis as well as in herbs such as basil and oregano could help to treat inflammatory bowel diseases and arthritis, Swiss scientists believe. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 19, 2014
Michael Blanding |
Marketing Marijuana Forget Big Tobacco -- is the era of "Big Marijuana" that far off? |
National Gardening
Carol Deppe |
Breeding Your Own Squash A guide to plant breeding and seed saving in the squash and pumpkin patch... |
AskMen.com
Joel Balsam |
Weed In The NFL On the cusp of the most popular viewing event of the year, the Super Bowl, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is talking about marijuana. Why? |
Salon.com
May 15, 2001
Daniel Forbes |
Let them eat chemo Will the Supreme Court's ostrich-like ruling shut down the medical marijuana movement? |
Reason
March 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Briefly Noted: Pot Mythology "Marijuana is not anti-establishment because it's illegal," writes High Times Executive Editor David Bienenstock in his new book. "It's illegal because it's anti-establishment." |
Chemistry World
January 15, 2009
Ned Stafford |
Synthetic cannabis mimic found in herbal incense A chemical substance first synthesized in 1995 in a university lab in the US is now being used by young people around the world to legally achieve a marijuana-like high and is causing alarm among health officials in Europe. |
Chemistry World
June 4, 2013
Maria Burke |
'Legal high' production gathers pace New designer drugs are popping up in Europe at an unprecedented rate, sometimes on the illicit drug market and sometimes as 'legal' alternatives to controlled drugs, according to the latest report by the EU drugs agency. |
