Articles by Dianna Benjamin
- Terpene Extraction: How to Minimize the LossMore than ever, people are far more curious and informed about the ingredients in substances they ingest or place on their bodies. And when it comes to cannabis, this has put a lot of attentionJuly 18, 2017
- Water and Cannabis: Water Rights and Regulations in CaliforniaLegalized for medical use in 1996 and for recreational use in the November 2016 elections, cannabis has been and continues to be a huge money maker in California. According to a Christian ScienceJuly 13, 2017
- Cannabis and Health: Why You Should Be Using the Whole PlantWe all know that cannabis is federally illegal. The DEA’s justification for this has been that there simply isn’t enough research proving the medical efficacy and safety of cannabis. Given theJuly 6, 2017
- Hip Hop and Cannabis: The Transformation of Pop CultureSnoop Dog, Dr. Dre, the Notorious BIG, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Cypress Hill, Wiz Khalifa, 50 Cent, OutKast, Redman, Kanye West, Nas, the Fugees, and Jay Z are only a handful of hip hop artists who haveJuly 1, 2017
- Cannabis and the Environment: Sustainability Practices for GrowersCannabis is a fascinating plant, beneficial for recreational and therapeutic reasons. It is also finally emerging from a decades old cage of prohibition. The emergence of legal cannabis has provenJune 30, 2017
- Cannabis and Native American Tribes: Who’s Growing Green?European colonization of the Americas screwed a lot of people over, and of those people, many were Native American peoples who had been living on the Western hemisphere anywhere from 12,000 to 30,000June 27, 2017
- Flower Pricing: Outdoor VS Indoor GrowsFor thousands of years, cannabis was almost exclusively cultivated outdoors. That changed with prohibition. Cultivars who didn’t want their product seized and destroyed moved it indoors, and thatJune 22, 2017
- Cannabis Labels: How Do You Read Them?As the stigma attached to cannabis consumption continues to erode from popular culture, a fascination with the plant’s incredible compounds has taken its place. Cannabis is a pain reliever, anxietyJune 19, 2017
- CTE and Cannabis: Don’t Mess With My HeadTalk about the NFL’s negligence of head trauma and CTE in its athletes has been around for a while, and when Concussion, the major motion picture film starring Will Smith, aired in 2015, it made aJune 13, 2017
- The NBA and Cannabis: Not a Slam DunkThe NBA, like other professional sports leagues, remains anti-marijuana despite the country’s changing outlook on cannabis. But, while they continue to reserve the right to test players, it’s notJune 8, 2017