Category: Wellness

Before I start on what’s going to be a very long and very intense series of stories about state cannabis regulations about Aspergillus, I want to say a few things. I’ve written about this before. In fact, I’ve written about it more than once, but the first article I wrote caused my email (and other…

Something’s Gotta Give, and it Will Be Consumer Faith in Science. Testing Issues In Oregon: A Brief History of How We Got Here Testing issues have been endemic in Oregon. They were notably present since at least 2015, which was the year, the Oregonian did a massive multi-part story covering shortfalls meant to inform residents…

THC Chasing is Killing Honest Growers, Labs, and Retailers Provocative, click-baity title, I know, but cannabis lovers — I need your attention because we need to talk about something serious. We aren’t doing right by this plant that gives so much. Chasing the highest THC (‘THC Chasing’) when purchasing at dispensaries has the potential to kill this…

I’ve been working on a series of articles featured on my Medium account about terpenes. I also plan to expand these articles into a larger reference work for other medical cannabis patients that I plan to make available as an ebook and some special editions in print. Watch this space for more!

I tore my ACL into three pieces when I was 16. Because I had a terrible surgeon, I spent most of my senior knee in an immobilizer. The terrible job done by the second rate hack surgeon came back to roost in 2003, when I had to have two surgeries to fix the damage: the…

Progress can sometimes feel like suffering when you’re in the middle of it If people ask me how much I meditate, I’ll be coy about it — as if it’s a secret, personal experience shared between the universe and me. Too many people are carrying trauma as we endure the ravages of a pandemic, so I feel it’s…