Popular discount website Groupon is now offering a coupon for medical marijuana in Florida—and it’s on sale! Five dispensaries across the state are allowed to sell medical marijuana in the form of CBD oil. One CBD oil offered is the well-known Charlotte’s Web, which is used to help ease pain and side effects for cancer patients and those with various seizure ... Read More
Former Broncos Quarterback Lobbying for CBD Oil Use in NFL
Jake Plummer, former quarterback for the Denver Broncos, is using CBD oil to help relieve the everyday pain he suffers from a decade long NFL career. He is just one of the ever-growing number of former professional athletes looking for safer ways to cope with the pain that their careers have levied on their bodies. Plummer has joined a number of NFL players (both current and ... Read More
High Times’ 2016 Cannabis Cup Coming to Michigan Race Track
From June 11-12, Auto City Speedway in Michigan will play host to High Times magazine’s inaugural medicinal 2016 Cannabis Cup. This isn’t the first High Times has held a cannabis event at the Auto City Speedway—they held their very first Cannabis Cup there in August 2014. American Cannabis Cup events had only existed for four years prior to this event. This year’s event ... Read More
Harborside Health Center to Open Third Dispensary in San Leandro, California
In September, Harborside Health Center was awarded the go-ahead to open a third dispensary in Golden State. With dispensaries already running in Oakland and San Jose, and now the new dispensary in San Leandro (exact location and date of opening unknown), Harborside stands as one medical cannabis’ most well-known dispensaries. The City of San Leandro council voted unanimously ... Read More
“Double, double toil and trouble”: Did William Shakespeare Smoketh Cannabis for Inspiration?
Probably not much, but it’s fun to imagine… A recent foray into the home of William Shakespeare has turned up some surprising evidence. Researchers investigating Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon home have uncovered clay pipes in his garden with evidence they may have been used to smoke cannabis. Cannabis use in Elizabethan England in of itself is not shocking, at least ... Read More
