Cannabinthusiast

With a name like Pillow Factory, you can pretty much see the writing on the wall of this strain. It was a sunny, cool day in the midst of a cold snap when I vaped this for the first time. Immediately after, my wife and I headed out for a walk. Now, it was early afternoon and I was wide awake and I suspect this was all…

My initial experience with this was an exercise is foolishness. The bottle has no specific instructions (beyond the 900 being 900 mg of THC per bottle), so I placed a dropperful – yes, a full dropperful – on my tongue, swished it around and went about my business. Roughly two hours went by and I really hadn’t felt much, and it was starting to reach bedtime. Then…

Perhaps no other mainstream figure has been as important an advocate for the compassionate medical applications of cannabis as Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Once an opponent to the movement, Gupta not only eventually did an about face, but he’s dedicated a great deal of time and energy to spreading the word, most visibly with his CNN “Weed” special reports, the sixth of which recently aired. This time around…

Talking to doctors about your alcohol and tobacco use has long been a pretty standard aspect of medical visits. (Whether you’re 100% truthful is another matter entirely.) But both of those drugs are legal pretty much everywhere, so folks feel far more at ease discussing them with their physician (especially when they’re not being 100% truthful). This brings us to cannabis and the decades of stigma and…

This strain of cannabis gave me an immediately gorgeous high. It was the sort of high that anyone who’s been smoking for any amount of time chases. I felt lifted up and happy and the future seemed bright. I went on a walk that was akin to a journey to see Oz the Great and Powerful. Everything within my eyesight took on a surreal sheen, as though…