Dear Old Hippie: For a while now, I’ve heard rumors about the legendary Green Dragon that can get you high anywhere without smoking, yet I’ve never heard of anyone selling it. What can you tell me about this fabulous beast? A: The Green Dragon — and his consort, The Gold Dragon — are indeed real. […]
It’s here, as promised. The full, slightly revised PDF version of last week’s series of articles, with 4 dozen clickable footnotes. The official title of the paper is The Top 5 Myths About Medical Marijuana and you can get it just by clicking on the link. Boil it, mash it, stick it in a stew. No, […]
You have to hand it to the U.S. Government. Without the money, might, and monotony of this monolith, it would have been impossible to suppress and distort the truth about cannabis – a plant used beneficially by humans for the last 5,000 to 10,000 years. But that’s in the past, because the truth — like […]
If you’re into brand names, you call it Tylenol; if you’re into generics, it’s acetaminophen; if you’re from almost anywhere else in the world but North America, it’s called paracetamol. But it’s one of the most widely-selling pain relievers on the market, and (relatively) recently, researchers finally discovered how it works. And it works a […]
Many medical marijuana dispensaries sell Canna Caps, which has quickly become a generic name for any capsule filled with cannabis since its association with the groundbreaking work of Dr. Paul Hornby. Dr. Hornby’s original idea was for Canna Caps to have standardized doses of THC, and all ingredients tested for pesticides, heavy metals, and other […]
Note to the Reader: after some more in-depth research, I’ve determined that I was wrong about this. I was assuming that there was a delay due to absorption through mucous membranes, but in fact, that absorption also occurs instantly. The delay is due to a yet-unknown (at least by me) ramp-up of THC blood levels […]
On /r/trees, there’s a “highness scale” that people use to indicate how high they are. I love all the Ents at /r/trees, and Im’a let you finish, but that scale is not quite the most useful scale of all time, because it’s relative. I realize none of this is completely scientific, and that everything is […]