Turning Down the Volume
Modern, Masculinity and the Unexpected Role of Cannabis For generations, men have been taught to endure. To push through pain. To stay silent.To keep moving forward no matter how heavy life becomes.…
Category: Wellness
High Vibes & Heavy Stones
Enhancing Your Session with Crystal Energy For the modern connoisseur, a smoking session is more than just a way to unwind—it’s a carefully curated ritual. We select our glass for its function,…
The Silver Age of Green
Why Cannabis is a Game-Changer for Seniors For decades, the image of a “stoner” was often a teenager in a basement. But today, the fastest-growing demographic of cannabis consumers isn’t the college…
The Green Exit
How Cannabis Saved Me from the Opioid Loop We’ve all heard the “gateway drug” myth, the idea that a joint leads you straight to the hard stuff. But for me, the story…
Cannabis Coconut Oil Superfood Recipe
Staying fit and healthy has made the “Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for 2017″ in the “Number 6” position (Gill, 2016). For the cannabis medicinal patient and recreational marijuana enthusiasts alike, coconut…
Inhaling Botanical Herbs
We all know that using any medication, let alone botanical medicines, is a trial and error experience. Our goal is to find the minimum effective dose for addressing the symptom or condition…
Hemp for Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies
For centuries hemp has been a part of our everyday healthy lives. Despite this, there has been a long and unjust war against cannabis sativa, including the non-psychoactive variety known as hemp.…
Exploring Cannabis For Pain Relief
Oregon has made national headlines having the second highest rate of opioid drug abuse in the nation. At the same time, the Oregon Pain Management Commission recently stated we have over 750,000…
Meet Dr. Rachel Knox
We first met Dr. Rachel Knox in early 2017 when renewing a family member’s medical card. I was impressed with her bedside manner. She truly cares for her patients and it was…
High Art: Cannabis & Muse
When I became pregnant with my daughter at twenty-nine, I sadly left the herb behind. I thought in doing so, I was being a responsible, upstanding mom. But at age thirteen, my…
Farmacy | 2 Dye 4 Creations
In 2010, I was taking a daily regime of about thirty-five different prescribed medications, three to six times a day. I have had a laundry list of conditions including heart problems, asthma,…
The Mad Scientist Meets Florence Nightingale
Meet the Scientist: Kit Doyle, and I connected over a shared passion to promote cannabis as an alternative to pharmaceutical medicine. Over the years, we have seen friends, family, and co-workers go…
Educated Stoner | A Life Gone To Pot
I grew up in the 1960s and came of age in the 1970s on the beaches of Southern California. Drugs were no stranger to the cultural environment, with day drinking a social…
Frank’s Gift | Farmacy Strain
Frank’s Gift is a high CBD strain that is quickly gaining notoriety in the cannabis community. This clone-only cultivar has tested over 24% CBD and 9% THC! The majority of today’s potent…
The Journey For Chronic Pain Relief
“Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.” –Mason Cooley The journey I found myself on began when I started exploring other options for chronic pain…
Cannabis & Cancer: Chemical Culprits (Part 1)
The spider web-like mass found in my right breast the summer of 2012 had me thinking about my mom, the farm she was raised on, DDT, Rachel Carson, and cannabis – in…
Demystifying Cannabis: Terpenes
Although it’s still taboo in many parts of the country, the pillars of cannabis prohibition are falling in the United States. As a result over half our nation now has medical cannabis…
Juicing Cannabis. What’s the Hype?
We’ve all heard about the health benefits of raw juice; whether it be a fresh-squeezed cocktail of apples, spinach, lemons, and ginger, or the latest cannabis juice craze. Juicing is especially beneficial…
The Healing Effects of Medical Cannabis on a Serious Injury
On a warm and beautiful Sunday morning, two colleagues and I set out with plans to construct my personal greenhouse. We were hard at work for about an hour and half…