Canniseur Corner
Managing Pain with Cannabis – A Personal Story
When I found out I had cancer, I freaked out. Good old fashioned 1970's style freak out. F.R.E.A.K.E.D. O.U.T.!!!!! Cancer? I can't possibly have cancer! What am I going to do? I decided to get it treated, that's what. This is my story on managing pain with cannabis....
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Corruption & Crime Seems to Follow Restrictive Dispensary Permitting
[Canniseur: This is a record that's been played again and again and it's getting a bit scratchy. Each and every time in the history of the world when governments try to limit trade, there are people who will pay-to-play. That's exactly what happened in Grover Beach,...
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Illinois City Will Use Weed Taxes to Pay Reparations for Black Residents
Image via [Canniseur: This is a huge and important first step for a city to make. Paying reparations out of cannabis taxes is more than a bit ironic, but important nonetheless. Reparations should happen at the state and/or federal level. In this current political...
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The CalCannabis Appellations Project Is About to Spark a New Chapter in Place-Based Branding
[Canniseur: In the wine business, provenance is everything. Where the grapes were grown should be an indication of the character of the wine, if not the quality. Why should cannabis be any different? While the jury is out on cannabis appelations (place names), it will...
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Book Excerpt: After The Harvest
[Canniseur: This book is an essential guide for anyone who is growing their own. We predict that home grown cannabis will become as popular as homemade beer in the future. Especially until the states where cannabis is legal get their act together and make sensible...
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Witches Weed Cultivar Review
Witches Weed Cultivar Review: Total Score: 81 Witches Weed is a "sativa" cultivar that I had never tried before. Called sativa by the dispensary and grower, it has a good mental effect. It also has a pleasant body effect as well. The uplifting and open mental effect...
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Could Medical Caregivers Help Avoid a Cannabis Shortage in Michigan?
[Canniseur: The regulators in the state of Michigan are still sticking their collective heads in some very dark and dank places. It might seem from the outside that 'regulators' are thwarting an open market. Open as in, the normal economics of a market would govern...
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FDA Warns 15 Companies for Illegally Selling CBD Products
This story first appeared in Cannabis Business Times [Canniseur: Here's a warning we should take seriously. There are too many producers of CBD products in the U.S. They're mostly good and reputable companies. But there are always a few bad actors in any business,...
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This post, a video from 60 Minutes Australia shows the heartbreaking story about grandparents working to help their granddaughter who has an intractable form of epilepsy that would kill her without cannabis. It doesn't tell whether it's CBD or a THC derivative, but...
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Magic Mushroom Pill Is Being Developed to Treat Diabetes and Stop the Munchies
[Canniseur: All psychoactive drugs found in nature (and some not) have uses for people. I get it that there are diseases like depression that might be helped by psychoactive compounds. But diabetes? WOW! And it appears that many other disorders can be helped...maybe....
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Cannabis & Boomers: The Generation Gap in Cannabis Culture
[Canniseur: Time moves on and things change. Boomers, who made cannabis mainstream in the 1960s and 1970s, are back at it as cannabis becomes legal in many places. It's a curiosity thing for some, but a real need for pain relief and mental awareness for others. For...
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‘Momentous’: First-time recreational marijuana customers celebrate in Ann Arbor
Many years ago, John Sinclair (pictured above) became famous for being arrested in Ann Arbor and having John Lennon write a song about him. Here he holds the first legal adult use cannabis sold in Ann Arbor on Sunday.] [Canniseur: This is truly a big deal. Why the...
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Is 2020 Going to be the Year of the Infused Beverage Category?
[Canniseur: Cannabis infused beverages? Unless the makers of infused beverages can figure out how to make them taste decent, there won't be much of a market... there's no telling about taste! 🙂 Seriously, there are tons of problems to overcome with the taste of...
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Vireo Health Launches 1937 Cannabis Brand
[Canniseur: Interesting name. 1937 was the year that cannabis was first banned in the U.S. The company advertises that they are featuring historic cannabis strains. Um, no they're not. Bubba Kush and Sweet Cheese are not the landrace (original) strains that they are...
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