The Green Economy

Smoking marijuana when you’re young can dull your brain. But when you’re old, it may have the opposite effect. That’s the conclusion of recent research…

Legal pot businesses are still something of an oxymoron in the US. They exist, and are authorized in states where marijuana has been legalized medicinally…

This April 20, the unofficial but much beloved stoner holiday known as 4/20, marijuana enthusiasts have more places to legally get high than ever before.…

It’s fitting that John Oliver would kick off April—the month of stoners’ favorite holiday (4/20)—by taking on outdated marijuana laws in the US. Though 30…

The man considered the world’s foremost marijuana researcher began studying cannabis scientifically in the 1960s. He was not a hippie. Dr. Raphael Mechoulam, 86, is…

Canada’s government is finally introducing long-promised legislation to make recreational marijuana legal across the country. The new law, likely to add to the country’s “liberal…

Now would be as good a time as any for the notoriously relaxed Cape Town to lose its cool, yet for the most part life…

US attorney general Jeff Sessions knows that the country is in the throes of an opioid epidemic. Sessions also knows that many state legislators—and scientists—believe…

American presidents and poets have long expressed their love of beer. Abraham Lincoln said he firmly believed the people could be depended upon in any…

There is one source of marijuana for clinical researchers in the US. Ironically, it belongs to the federal government, which classifies cannabis as a Schedule…

Maua, Kenya Rose Mugambi Karanja remembers the morning over 20 years ago when she first got into the khat business. Khat, the red-stemmed, green-leafed plant…

If you look closely, the US government doesn’t seem as intent on thwarting marijuana development as the rhetoric espoused by some politicians would have you…