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Ancient Egypt’s rich history of medical cannabis

In Egypt, medical cannabis use goes back for millennia.  And while many different early cultures...
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Pride and Plant Medicine: How the LGBTQ+ Movement Shaped the Cannabis Industry

Pride Month: A Legacy of Love, Resistance, and Healing  – Every June, Pride Month honors...
By Sherri and Elisabeth Mack
History

10 cultural masterpieces we have thanks to weed

It’s a nug of cannabis conventional wisdom that’s as old as time: Getting high makes...
By Ben Hartman
News

Reimagining weed: what if cannabis was treated like wine? 

Cannabis has been around humans for millennia.  In that time it has served many purposes,...
By Jessica Reilly-Chevalier
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What does 710-friendly mean?

Outside of cannabis culture, 420 is the stoner holiday. But do you know about 710?  ...
By Jessica Reilly-Chevalier
History

The Ultimate Dictionary of Weed Slang

After about a century of prohibition, and even longer spent as a subculture of its...
By Ben Hartman
History

What does religion say about cannabis? Is it a sin?

Depending on your relationship with the plant or where you went to high school or...
By Ben Hartman
News

Is cannabis kosher for Passover?

It’s almost that time of the year again — when Jews try to explain to...
By Ben Hartman
History

California’s Emerald triangle, explained

About 85 miles north of San Francisco, the Emerald Triangle comprising three counties — Mendocino,...
By Erin Hiatt
News

Jewish pirates, hash stuffed in camels, and ‘reefer madness’ in Israel

Off the coast of British Mandatory Palestine, two bandits hide in a tiny sailboat as...
By Ben Hartman
History

5 prominent women in cannabis history

Cannabis activism may seem like a contemporary issue but, in fact, it has a long...
By Weedmaps
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