Marijuana
Marijuana Overview
Ask someone today what they think about drug policy in the U.S. and you will likely hear something about the legalization movement for marijuana, which has taken center stage in the drug reform debate. Seven states and the District of...
Marijuana’s Evolution in the U.S.
American sailors and Mexican farm laborers introduced marijuana in the U.S. in the early 1900s. Marijuana later spread to the African-American jazz scene in the 1940s and 50s, then among the beatniks in the 1950s, and eventually to American universities...
Do It Yourself Cultivation
The primary factors allowing for easy cultivation of marijuana by its consumers and reducing the distance between producer and user are the relative simplicity in growing it and that its bulkiness raises smuggling costs. For small-scale production, all that is...
Marijuana for All Tastes
Classified as a hallucinogen, along with LSD and PCP, in the past few decades the potency of marijuana’s active ingredient, THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), has increased by a factor of 2-3 times, reaching THC levels of 15-20%. Such strains as the now...
Marijuana’s Short & Long-Term Effects
Anything that is smoked takes between 7 to 10 seconds to reach the brain and is even faster than injecting a substance, which takes 15 to 30 seconds. The effects of smoking marijuana are felt within a few minutes, peak...