Budget 2017: The War On Welfare...... And Cannabis

The War On Cannabis

Expect to see an increase in homeless people in Australia and be prepared for a rise in crime amd misery, I give you the 2017 budget.
Now I'm not an economist, but my observances tell me that land prices, housing prices and manufacturing or the lack of, are the big issues in Australia.

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Study: Marijuana Reverses Aging Processes in the Brain

Marijuana Reverses Aging Processes in the Brain

Although memory performance decreases with age, marijuana can reverse these aging processes in the brain. This is according to a new study[1] published in the journal Nature Medicine. In the study, old mice were able to regress to the state of two-month-old mice with a prolonged low-dose treatment with marijuana as its active ingredient.

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High Tech: How The Digital Age is Changing Pot Culture

This piece was co-created by Michelle Janikian and Catherine Goldberg.

Cannabis is finally going legit, at least in California that is. Even though Cali has had medical marijuana since 1996 and a lucrative MMJ marketplace for years, much of the industry is still operating in the black market. But now that adult use cannabis has passed and will go...

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Pot Legalization’s Eternal, Unsolvable Conundrum

Let’s say you’re marijuana-friendly. (Let’s just say.) And let’s say you live in an area that’s not quite yet so enlightened on the subject, but you want to experiment with exercising some freedom.

So you jet to Colorado, the international model for marijuana legalization, for a cannabis-friendly weekend. Before you...

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