As our nation edges cautiously toward majority support for marijuana legalization, the millennial generation is leading the way more than any other demographic in history. Our generation has experienced as much or more tragedy than any post-WW II generation, with the exception of the baby boomers. Read More »
PopSci.com (Popular Science) has released a great infographic and article by Katie Peek, who reports: “[W]hile cocaine, heroin and alcohol are all responsible for enough deaths to warrant their own stripes on the chart, many popular illegal drugs—including marijuana and LSD—are such a tiny blip as to be invisible.”
This year, Mixmag partnered up with the Guardian and Gay Times to conduct their annual “Global Drug Survey” — the world’s largest independent survey on which drugs are most popular and why. The results: a series of pill-eye-popping infographics revealing the drug habits of over 22,000 club-goers of all ages... Read More »
With a projected $1.3 billion – $1.5 billion in sales in 2013, the largest, legally operating sector within the green rush is the medical cannabis community. The deregulation which began in 1998 and has since spread as a total of 18 states and Washington D.C. have begun allowing medical cannabis... Read More »
Mayor Filner Proposed 2% tax, 5k annual licensing fee, and collectives / cooperatives in limited commercial and industrial zones Over the years, medical marijuana patients in San Diego have endured a lack of representation in local governments, raids, lawsuits, eradication efforts, federal interference, and outright Read More »
Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Alcohol causes violent behavior and deaths by liver cirrhosis and alcohol poisoning. People die every day from overdoses of heroin, cocaine, meth, and even legal prescription drugs. Nonetheless, Rep. David Howard (R-Park City), Chairman of the... Read More »
This excellent infographic describes the varying prices of marijuana. Made by floatingsheep.org using data from the anonymous feedback site PriceOfWeed.com, this map describes the low prices of Mendocino County, California. Lower prices in several states with no medical marijuana are likely caused by the sale of primarily low-grade imported shwag,... Read More »
For entrepreneur Troy Dayton, providing basic services like insurance and capital management amounts to revolutionary business. The support his firm ArcView supplies might sound standard, but the businesses it works with are anything but: ArcView coordinates investment for the booming number of legal, cannabis-focused companies taking root across the... Read More »
I remember one of the clients I had on internship. He’d been drinking a fifth of bourbon a day for years. As you’d guess, his liver was a mess, and his thinking was clearly impaired. I couldn’t help but wonder how much better his health would have been (and how much... Read More »
In this article we’ll examine a video comparing HID and LED grow lights with a spectroradiometer, a device that can measure the amount of light emitted in each particular color range. This is important because most of the light produced by HID bulbs is not used by plants. A standard... Read More »
