It’s long been known that cannabis plants are indigenous to Central Asia, but a new study provides a fresh focus on where exactly this genus may have first evolved millions of years ago. According to researchers, “These data converge on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, which we deduce as the cannabis centre of origin, in the […]
Across the globe, from Colorado to Montevideo, the modern marijuana industry is blossoming. With it has come a wave of societal benefits—from the economic booms of Denver and Portland, to the mind-boggling advances in science and medicine being discovered as far afield as Tel Aviv and Madrid. As this happens, we’re slowly beginning to undo […]
Around 10,000 years ago prehistoric humans began using cannabis, a new research study has found, and not just in one small corner of the globe. The psychoactive plant, which has a multitude of other uses in addition, seems to have come into use in both Eastern Europe and Japan sometime between 11,500 and 10,200 years […]
Deborah Greene, the grandmother who bought Seattle’s first legal pot is donating some of that herb, along with clothes she wore that day, and more, to the Museum of History and Industry( MOHAI), the 103-year old Seattle institution with 4 million artifacts. MOHAI wants the mementos from Greene, 65, because they showcase “one more way […]
A chosen few members of the area media, agriculture officials and Murray State University representatives witnessed a historical moment for hemp during Hemp History Week. The lucky few were escorted to a field somewhere in Calloway County. There, already about 10 inches tall in places, rose from the ground, what are believed to be, the first […]