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Cooking with cannabis is becoming more and more popular, with shows on Netflix and ViceTV such as Cooked with Cannabis and Bong Appétit, and restaurants developing and offering infused meal kits during the pandemic. However, the history of culinary cannabis use began long before your first experience with a ‘special’ brownie. It can be traced all the way back to […]

Sometimes an album is released at the exact moment in time when it is at its most explosive, and perhaps most needed. It changes your mind, it touches your heart, and when you hear the opening riff of Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, it sends you immediately back to a very particular time and place. The unique penetrating

India is the second-most populous country in the world with a population of 1.366 billion, and is the most populous democracy. In today’s global landscape, the country is a major international player, economically it is worth $2.7 trillion, making it the world’s sixth-largest economy. It is also incredibly religiously diverse with Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Islam,

Cannabinoids are naturally occurring chemical substances that make up at least 140 of the over 500 known compounds found in the cannabis plant. Not exclusive to cannabis, they can be found in a number of other botanicals as well. When cannabinoids are produced in plants they are referred to as phytocannabinoids, to be distinguished from those produced

China, otherwise known as the People’s Republic of China, is the world’s most populous country with over 1.4 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, it covers an area of approximately 9.6 million square kilometers making it the world’s third-largest country. In the current global landscape, China is a dominant presence, with a gross domestic product

The earliest dated depiction of a marijuana leaf – though endlessly debated – is thought to be in the form of a cave painting from the Neolithic Era (around 10,000-5,000 BC) in Kyushu, Japan. Whether it is indeed illustrative of a marijuana leaf, or may be a palm or aloe as some contest, humans have been creating

If cinema and its auteurs have strived to turn a mirror to society and reflect the cultural norms and messages of the day, one can view the representation of cannabis in films as a roadmap to the shifting ideas and attitudes towards its use as a whole. Over the decades, we have seen the movement

Terpenes, cannabinoids, and flavonoids represent three vital classes of compounds present in the cannabis plant’s trichomes. All three contribute to the medicinal benefits and recreational experience of cannabis and collectively produce what’s known as the entourage effect, a theory that cannabis compounds work in synergy to produce a greater effect than the sum of their