Cannabis and Cancer

Overcast and dark this early Wednesday on California’s north coast as we wade through another rain front — supposedly good rainfalls the next few days and through the weekend. ‘Tis the season. Also the season for our most-noted local crop — a lot of trim work available nowadays as marijuana buds itself. And another report…

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Sales High

Good news on the 10-month-old legal marijuana sales in Colorado front: No mass deaths, and sales are high as a kite. Some interesting figures from research-land Colorado — sales revenue off recreational marijuana continues to toke upward, totals for August about $34.1 million, up nearly $5 million from July. And supposedly for everybody (via the Washington…

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Fire, Wind and Itty-Bitty Rain

Sharp, peek-a-boo sunshine this Thursday morning here on California’s north coast, with some thick-shadowed clouds lurking about — we’re forecast for more rain today, mostly in the AM, but this being a narrow shoreline zone, weather can become ordinary-irregular real quick, though, we’re predicted to get maybe a tenth-to-quarter-of-an-inch. The only early rainfall count I…

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Duh!

A seemingly obvious conclusion probably known for a generation — from Medical News Today: After assessing couples’ first 9 years of marriage, the researchers found that husbands and wives who used marijuana frequently – two or three times per month or more – exhibited less frequent intimate partner violence (IPV) instigation by the husbands. Anyone…

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Harness the Hemp

The more the work, the better the result, as even the waste off marijuana, or ‘hemp,’ can produce more than a high — how about a energy boost? Via the BBC: They “cooked” cannabis bark into carbon nanosheets and built supercapacitors “on a par with or better than graphene” – the industry gold standard. Electric…

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Pot Holes

A bit overcast and quiet this early Wednesday on California’s north coast as we reach mid-week work style. There’s just way-too-many days between Monday and Friday. And speaking of ganja, especially up here in the pot-growing center of the entire universe, a bunch of well-respected economic brainiacs have called for the eternally-foolish, 40-year-old drug war to…

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