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Digital Creations and Your Cannabis Side Hustle: Thriving in the Age of AI Automation

by Reginald Reefer | Friday Aug 22, 2025

The key isn't just using AI to create random cannabis content - it's leveraging technology to solve real problems and speak to authentic experiences within cannabis culture. Success comes from combining AI efficiency with human insight, cultural understanding, and genuine passion for serving the cannabis community.

Opinion

Drug Enforcement Abuse: How the DEA Became America's Real Public Enemy #1

by Reginald Reefer | Wednesday Aug 20, 2025

In 1971, President Nixon declared drug abuse to be "public enemy number one," launching the War on Drugs with the promise of protecting American communities from the scourge of illegal substances. Over half a century later, it's become painfully clear that Nixon got it backwards. The real public enemy isn't drug abuse - it's the Drug Enforcement Administration itself, an agency that has evolved from a misguided law enforcement effort into an actively destructive force that threatens American lives, liberty, and scientific progress.

Medical

How Worried Should You Be About Schizophrenia and Psychosis if You Smoke Weed?

by DanaSmith | Tuesday Aug 19, 2025

Sure, there are cases linking cannabis use to cases of psychosis and schizophrenia. But that’s because individuals who are already prone to these conditions take pot, which brings out the worst of their symptoms. However, do not confuse causation with correlation. When a person is predisposed to these mental illnesses, using cannabis before the start of symptoms doesn’t mean that the drug caused it. There is so much nuance to these situations, which is why they must be approached with caution and critical thinking.

Opinion

Gateway Drug? Cannabis is a Gateway Crop: From Backyard Buds to Food Freedom

by Reginald Reefer | Thursday Aug 14, 2025

A new survey of 1,327 home cannabis cultivators found that two-thirds say growing marijuana inspired them to start growing tomatoes, with nearly a quarter admitting they never grew tomatoes until years after cultivating their first cannabis plant. Following tomatoes, the top crops people were inspired to grow included basil, strawberries, chili peppers, cucumbers, and lettuce. As Jessica Hanson from Homegrown Cannabis Co. put it: "Cannabis isn't a gateway drug, it's a gateway crop. Before you know it, you've got a backyard full of tomatoes, and maybe even a few zucchinis."

Medical

How Much Cannabis Can Teens Consume and Still Be Safe?

by DanaSmith | Wednesday Aug 13, 2025

Primarily, the driving force behind this is the fact that the human brain is still developing until around the age of 21. Science shows that the brain is the last organ in the body to fully mature, and it even continues to grow through the age of 25. That’s why placing restrictions in place, for young adults not to be allowed to legally consume weed until 21, helps prevent any damage to the developing brain.

Opinion

Trump's Cannabis Charade: Why Schedule III is a Trojan Horse for Big Pharma

by Reginald Reefer | Tuesday Aug 12, 2025

Schedule III isn't cannabis reform - it's cannabis corporate welfare disguised as progress. While Bob Barr and other establishment conservatives promote this "compromise" as sensible policy, they're either ignorant of the implications or deliberately misleading the public about what Schedule III actually accomplishes. The only rational approach to cannabis policy is complete removal from the Controlled Substances Act, treating cannabis like alcohol and allowing free market competition instead of government-sanctioned monopolies.

Opinion

Americans are Now Growing Their Own Weed - A Definition of True Legalization

by Reginald Reefer | Friday Aug 8, 2025

In this article, I'm going to lay bare exactly why growing your own cannabis is the only path forward that makes sense – for consumers, for communities, and even for governments serious about eliminating the illicit market. And if the powers that be aren't willing to relinquish this right? Well, throughout history, true freedom has rarely been granted – it's been taken.

Opinion

88 Years of Failure: How Cannabis Prohibition Became America's Most Expensive Lie

by Reginald Reefer | Wednesday Aug 6, 2025

The 1971 escalation under Nixon revealed prohibition's fundamentally dishonest nature when the administration declared cannabis "public enemy number one" while privately acknowledging that the president didn't consider it "particularly dangerous" and found penalties "ridiculous." John Ehrlichman's later admission that "we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the (Vietnam) war or Black," but could criminalize drugs associated with these groups, exposes prohibition as deliberate political warfare against dissenting communities.

Medical

Cannabis Just Might Be The Best Medication For Epileptic Patients (Even Those with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy!)

by DanaSmith | Monday Aug 4, 2025

In the case that CBD alone wasn’t effective in treating seizures effectively, the patients could then take delta-9 THC while gradually reducing CBD dosage. Researchers used logs based on reports from the patients in order to assess the effectiveness of the treatments; they also monitored seizure frequencies before, during, and after administration of cannabis oil treatments. 

Opinion

Breaking the Cycle of Pain Management: Why Cannabis Patients See the Greatest Relief

by Reginald Reefer | Saturday Aug 2, 2025

The research, published in Advances in Therapy, followed 64 chronic pain patients for six months and found that cannabis-naïve participants experienced the most significant pain reduction, with scores dropping by an remarkable 60%.