A brief history of the cannabis plant

It isn't too surprising that teens have a relaxed attitude towards cannabis, one that belies any cause for alarm or concern.

"I feel like a pariah in the Missouri medical community."

Two years ago, when Dan Goulet was going up the stairs in his Toronto apartment, he slipped and smacked his head sharp against the steps. Then when he got up, he quickly blacked out and struck his head again on the steps. He was later diagnosed with...

As stocked as the shelves have been for cannabis consumers in Canada, or the e-shelves if you’re in Ontario, you won’t find a product that is gaining traction in the cannabis community: topicals.

Lynn Wells only nibbles on a cannabis brownie monthly, but she’s one of many Canadian seniors clamouring to a plant they tried decades ago and have now returned to in light of some aches, pains and other conditions.

From the perspective of an adjunctive therapy, cannabis products are some of the most effective treatment tools on the planet. The laundry list of options available to patients and adult recreational users – whole flowers, topicals, oils and capsules...

Cannabis oil has become a ubiquitous buzz term. In the years since cannabis has transformed from a culture on the fringes of society to an industry at its heart, the term has formed an umbrella under which a number of different, and often disparate,...

Cannabis is an exciting industry. Weekly, if not daily, new products come to market that add value to the economy and, one could argue, society.

From seed-to-sale software to delivery apps to online strain analysis, technology is fast becoming a key component of the cannabis industry.

Robust is one way to define the current breadth of research that involves the cannabis and its chemical parts. Across the planet – namely in states and countries where medical cannabis is permitted – scientists are becoming increasingly invested in d...

To put it simply, CBDA is the acidic precursor to CBD (the "A" stands for "acid"). CBDA is found in the raw cannabis plant and, when heated, the compound then becomes the well-known CBD. The process of transforming CBDA to CBD is called decarboxylati...

The endocannabinoid system is found in all vertebrate animals and even some invertebrates are reported to have an ECS. According to some reports, the number of endocannabinoid receptors in the human body is greater than all of the other neuromodulato...

For two particular reasons, there are few topics being explored in the cannabis space more exhilarating than the endocannabinoid system. First, for a lack of research in the area, medical schools have almost exclusively omitted the system from the cu...

Like any prescribed medication, the therapeutic indications of cannabis are limited and have the potential for adverse effects if used improperly or abused.

As medical cannabis has gained acceptance as a viable treatment option over the past two decades, so too has the list of symptoms the plant has been shown to help grown. No longer is the plant merely used to treat chronic pain or extreme conditions l...

When discussing cannabis, it is important to remember that the line between science and folklore can at times be fickle. In the context of cannabis as a treatment, for instance, there is only one direct scientific source (THC found in ashes) that can...

As a flurry of new products have flooded the budding cannabis market in recent years, so too have those developments come to represent a wealth of hope for medical patients, or anyone looking for an alternative therapy. Where, traditionally, cannabis...

Terpenes are organic compounds that give cannabis strains their unique aromatic qualities. Synthesized with cannabinoids in the plant’s glandular trichomes, terpenes are responsible for the smell and taste characteristics – skunky, lemony, piney – th...

An introduction to the use of medical cannabis flowers and extracts as complementary agents to renewed sexual health.

Cannabis has long been riddled by myth and beaten down by stereotype. Suffice to say, the image of the typical stoner – feet up on the couch, eyes glazed over and red over a perma-smile, with a bag of chips in hand – still finds resonance in the coll...