From his first joint overlooking San Francisco to “happy smoke” in Vietnam, backyard plants in Inglewood, postal routes, Amsterdam coffeeshops and today’s legal dispensaries, Vernell “Papa Snoop” Varnado has lived through nearly every era of modern American cannabis culture. Vernell Varnado remembers the date he arrived in California. “August 28, 1966,” he says. He had… Keep Reading
Cone or straight joint? You’ve got a side. Everybody’s got a side. Nobody’s ever had proof. So a research team packed a dozen of them with the exact same weed, smoked every one on a machine programmed to puff more like a cannabis consumer than a cigarette smoker, and weighed what came out the other… Keep Reading
A closer look at the past, present, and future of that tiny thing at the end of the joint you’re either totally ignoring or celebrating as high art. There was a time when the business end of your joint — the part that touched your lips — consisted of nothing more than rolling paper material… Keep Reading
A closer look at the past, present, and future of that tiny thing at the end of the joint you’re either totally ignoring or celebrating as high art. There was a time when the business end of your joint — the part that touched your lips — consisted of nothing more than rolling paper material… Keep Reading
Charcoal joint filters filter out terpenes, which are both tasty and beneficial. They barely reduce the tar. Here’s what nobody’s telling you: take the terpenes out, you get less high. So you smoke more to chase what you lost, and you end up with more tar, not less. Big Tobacco got caught running this same… Keep Reading
A PAX-authored study comparing vaporized cannabis to joint smoke found significantly lower levels of certain compounds under controlled lab conditions. A new research paper is adding fresh data to a long-running question in cannabis consumption: how vaporizing compares to smoking when it comes to chemical exposure. The research—conducted by Richard Rucker, who serves as PAX’s… Keep Reading
