Haven’t heard of CBG, or more specifically, CBG oil? It’s pretty famous! CBG stands for cannabigerol, and this plant compound has been given the title of mother of all other phytocannabinoids with good reason! Table of Contents What is CBG? CBG Oil vs. CBD Oil Safety and CBG Oils Health Benefits of CBG Oils What…
Every year, ‘round the Holidays, I am reminded how the Internet is destroying our ability to think beyond what Google tells us to think. The message is repeated meme after meme, article after article, blog after blog – all recycling the same erroneous claim: namely, that the modern character of Santa Claus echoes psychedelic mushroom…
Buy Tickets It is certainly a propitious moment for a theatrical concert celebrating cannabis to hit New York’s off-off-Broadway scene, as the Empire State this year actually legalized. Five years in the making, Cannabis! A Viper Vaudeville seeks to be didactic as well a fun, tracing the plant from its origins on the remote steppes…
In countries around the world where medical cannabis is illegal, it’s generally assumed that a change in law will bring about safer access for patients. It’s often children with life-threatening seizures who are the catalysts for change. And yet in the UK, where cannabis was rescheduled in 2018, this extremely vulnerable patient group is struggling…
The Czech Republic and especially its capital Prague have won a cachet among the international cannabis-cognoscenti. But now a local magazine dedicated to the cannabis culture may be forced to close by legal action — with its editor under threat of prison time. Of all the post-communist countries in Eastern Europe, the Czech Republic is…
Adapted from Medical Marijuana: Dr. Kogan’s Evidence-Based Guide to the Health Benefits of Cannabis and CBD by Dr. Mikhail Kogan, MD & Joan Liebmann-Smith, PhD with a foreword by Andrew Weil, MD (with permission from Avery Books, a member of Penguin Group USA, a Penguin Random House Company. Copyright © 2021, Mikhail Kogan, M.D). Pain…
Terpenes produce more than just scents. These secret weapons and key communicators of the plant world – about 20,000 distinct chemicals have been identified so far – can also induce a wide range of biological effects. There’s evidence that some plant terpenes can improve cognition, block pain, kill harmful bacteria, cause hallucinations, inhibit inflammation, fight…