CBN for Sleep: Rethinking the Nighttime Cannabis Standard
More people are turning to cannabis for sleep than ever before, and it’s not hard to understand why. Between demanding work schedules, constant connectivity, and ongoing social, political, and economic stress, quality sleep has become increasingly elusive. Add in factors like chronic pain, menopause, or aging, and sleep deprivation starts to look less like a…
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This Cannabis Concentrate Is More Expensive Than Cocaine
The Price Paradox in Spain’s Cannabis Clubs In the Spanish underground cannabis scene, a curious economic phenomenon has emerged. A single gram of high-end cannabis concentrate can cost more than a gram of cocaine. It’s known as BHO, or butane hash oil. Long known in the US, BHO has been spreading in the Iberian Peninsula.…
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Why Training Plants Is a Waste of Time: Here’s What Actually Works
You may be reading this article and thinking, hang on a minute, what is this author talking about? Now, before you read any further, let me clarify that I am an advocate and practitioner of plant training and have nothing against it. However, when it comes to efficiency and the number of harvests per year,…
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You’re Not Supposed to Smoke Weed Here. So Why Did This Feel Normal?
I was told (correctly) that cannabis in the Dominican Republic is illegal. Minutes later, after a conversation that felt less like a transaction and more like a mutual acknowledgment, I was holding a joint that was not quite a joint like I’ve ever seen before, rolled not in thin white paper but in cigar leaf…
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Legal Weed, Illegal Life: Dana Beal and the War That Never Ended
Cannabis is legal across much of America. So why is one of legalization’s longest-standing activists still facing jail time in Idaho? Cannabis legalization has transformed the United States. Dispensaries operate openly, billion-dollar companies trade publicly, and politicians routinely celebrate the end of prohibition. Yet for Dana Beal, one of the longest-standing figures in the American…
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Government-Backed Party Drug-Testing: Inside Uruguay’s No-Penalty Harm Reduction Program
Far from demonizing people who use drugs—a global reality that some countries have chosen to acknowledge and address rather than forbid—Uruguay is joining an initiative that has already proven successful: testing drugs at parties, raves, and festivals, according to El Debate. Uruguay’s National Drug Board (Junta Nacional de Drogas, JND), part of the Executive Branch,…
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What Happens When a Weed Nerd Runs the Numbers
Make Great Weed. Know Your Numbers. Pay Your Debts. By Nicholas Sosiak via Cannabis Confidential In 2018, Canadian cannabis was supposed to be the surest bet in the market. Billions of dollars were raised. Valuations went parabolic. Everyone promised global domination. By 2025, a lot of those stories had ended the same way, with shuttered…
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Sherbinskis Was Dying. PrimeTime Took the Risk.
For years, Sherbinskis occupied a rare place in cannabis culture. The brand was widely associated with premium flower, cultural relevance, and one of the most influential strains of the modern era. Then, quietly, it disappeared from shelves in California. By 2022, Sherbinskis was no longer a symbol of top-shelf cannabis in the state’s legal market…
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Cannabis Isn’t the Most Harmful Substance. Alcohol and Tobacco Are. Duh. Science Says So, Again.
For decades, cannabis has been treated as a public menace while alcohol and tobacco were folded into daily life, policy frameworks and corporate profit models. A newly published scientific analysis out of Canada once again flips that logic on its head. A peer-reviewed study published January 27 in the Journal of Psychopharmacology finds that alcohol…
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Woodstock to Screen Documentary Exploring Cannabis and Creativity
On February 12, HERbal Woodstock will host a free public screening of Cannabis + Creativity at the historic Bearsville Theater, bringing together cannabis culture, artistic expression and local community under one roof. Directed and produced by Elana Frankel, the award-winning documentary explores how cannabis intersects with creative practice across disciplines. The film follows six artists,…
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