Ben Hartman

Ben Hartman is a journalist with expertise in all things cannabis, organized crime families, refugees, and everything in between. Originally from Austin, he has reported across the Middle East and is the senior cannabis correspondent at The Cannigma.

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What can you do with weed trim?

All the hard work and tender love and care has paid off. You’re sitting in front of your first-ever cannabis...

Oct 20, 2020
6 min
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Hemp wicks: A safer, cleaner way to get high?

There’s something truly delightful about placing a perfect little bud in the bowl of a pipe, watching it light up...

Oct 19, 2020
4 min
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What are cannabis suppositories?

Even people who have never in their life consumed cannabis probably know what a joint is. Pot brownies and all...

Oct 19, 2020
3 min
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New study: No link between cannabis and cognitive decline in seniors

Frequent cannabis use does not necessarily result in cognitive decline in seniors, according to the findings of a new study. The...

Oct 15, 2020
4 min
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New documentary: How legalization fell short in California

On paper it sounds like a pot smoker’s paradise: hundreds of legal cannabis retail stores spread across America’s most populous...

Oct 13, 2020
6 min
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8 of the coolest hemp inventions

For thousands of years, people were using cannabis for a whole litany of reasons that had nothing to do with...

Oct 13, 2020
7 min
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Vermont finally legalizes adult-use cannabis sales

Vermont is set to become the 11th state with legal adult-use cannabis sales, after Governor Phil Scott on Wednesday announced...

Oct 11, 2020
2 min
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‘We will decriminalize marijuana,’ kamala harris vows in vp debate

A Biden-Harris administration will decriminalize marijuana and expunge criminal records for those convicted of cannabis crimes, Senator and Vice Presidential...

Oct 8, 2020
2 min
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Cannabis in pregnancy increases risk of psychiatric problems in children, study finds

The children of mothers who use cannabis after they find out they are pregnant may be at a small, elevated...

Oct 7, 2020
4 min
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Study: Strain names don’t mean much, give ‘false sense of diversity’

What happened when researchers took thousands of cannabis samples representing 396 strain names to a laboratory? The analyzed samples turned...

Oct 5, 2020
3 min