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Welcome to Hempirical Evidence, the blog of a graduate student researcher currently chronicling the story of marijuana in the United States.

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BOOK REVIEW: Leonard Leinow & Juliana Birnbaum, "CBD: A Patient's Guide to Medicinal Cannabis" (2017)

Over the past five years, I've spent a lot of time talking to people about pot. Seems that no matter where I go, who I'm speaking to, or how the subject is brought up, the conversation inevitably turns to the healing power of the cannabis plant.

This past Saturday was no different. I was in Colorado Springs doing a book signing at The Bookman, a small used bookstore on the city's west side. Not many people came into the store while I was there, but of the eight or nine people I met that evening, about half of them saw my book and immediately opened up about their experiences with medical cannabis. One particularly moving story came from a middle-aged man with painfully gnarled hands that marked an extreme case of rheumatoid arthritis. Thanks to cannabis treatments, he was able to cut up a pineapple by himself last week - something he could not do for years, even though he'd been taking prescription medication.
Impressed - though not surprised - by his story, I told the …

Cannabis in the Cornfields: Then and Now

In August 2006, clad in safety gear that protected her from the scraping stalks, Wisconsin ecologist Kaitlin Whitney was collecting ecological data in one of the Dairy State's numerous cornfields when she came upon five marijuana plants "bursting with buds ready to harvest." Her presence even spooked the bud tender, who just so happened to be tramping through the corn to check on the plants. The anonymous grower split, leaving Whitney with both an interesting story to tell and more excitement than she probably expected that day(she was, after all, walking through cornfield after cornfield for her job).

That story became the lede in an article Whitney wrote for The Atlantic this past fall on cannabis growth in Wisconsin cornfields. "Almost every corn grower I spoke to that summer had a tale of discovering marijuana in their cornfields at harvest time," she wrote. "Which led me to ask: What is it about the nation’s largest crop that has made it so attrac…

Hempirical Discussions, Ep 1: Adam Vine, Cage-Free Cannabis

You've heard of cage-free eggs, but what about cage-free cannabis?
Welcome to Hempirical Discussions! In this brand new podcast segment of the blog, I'll share my conversations with important and influential people in the cannabis world. My guests and I will talk about all things cannabis, including history, prohibition and social justice, the environment, legal and political debates, weed culture, science, medicine, and more!

My first guest is Adam Vine, the 39-year-old co-founder of Cage-Free Cannabis, a group that works with legal cannabis businesses to repair some of the damage done to minority communities during the War on Drugs. Based in Los Angeles, Cage-Free Cannabis has partnered with two Seattle-based pot businesses - Fine Detail Greenway and Lux Pot Shop - to produce a special marijuana strain named after Seattle-based band Flavr Blue.
Profits from all sales of the Flavr Blue strain will go toward Cage-Free Cannabis's social justice initiatives, which include …

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