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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History
The Ultimate Dictionary of Weed Slang

After about a century of prohibition, and even longer spent as a subculture of its own on every continent on...

Oct 27, 2021
9 min
How to
How to make and use a water bottle bong

A cannabis fan with some great herb can be truly ingenious when backed into a corner with no bong, pipe,...

Oct 26, 2021
6 min
News
Three years after legalization, what’s the state of the cannabis industry in Canada?

For more than three years, Canada has had the sort of nationwide legal cannabis that people in the US can...

Oct 25, 2021
8 min
How to
Cannabis on a budget: 10 tips for making your weed last longer

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of having an abundance of great weed all the time. You ditch the pipe...

Oct 25, 2021
7 min
News
Celebrity cannabis brands: what’s the buzz all about?

Clint Eastwood and Justin Beiber both made headlines in and around the cannabis industry earlier this month, but for radically...

Oct 25, 2021
11 min
Regulation
Is weed legal in Switzerland?

Medical: legalRecreational: decriminalized In 2012, Switzerland decriminalized the possession of marijuana, and since October 1, 2013, the possession of up...

Oct 20, 2021
3 min
Regulation
Is weed legal in Norway?

Medical: LegalRecreational: Decriminalized Norway has not legalized recreational cannabis but typically possession of less than 15 grams is punished with...

Oct 20, 2021
3 min
Physiology
Mixing Weed and Alcohol (Crossfading)

Taken responsibly, both alcohol and cannabis can be a great time. But what about when you mix the two? Drinking...

Oct 19, 2021
9 min
News
What makes a great cannabis strain?

Having an abundance of very potent cannabis at your fingertips is a great problem to have, but are we missing...

Oct 18, 2021
8 min
Recipes
How to make cannabis cocktails

Yield: Each recipe below makes a single cannabis cocktail. The cannabis infusion recipe makes a single 750ml bottle of cannabis-infused...

Oct 17, 2021
5 min