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If you like drama and marijuana together, then 2012 was the year for you: It was jam-packed with topsy-turvy cannabis news. As the Obama administration cracked down on medical marijuana dispensaries in California, the president himself said pot users in marijuana-legal states shouldn’t be prosecuted. Come again? Here’s our list of top pot stories forRead More …

One of the best solutions to energy verses output for most home gardeners is to use outdoor light for flowering and use continuous light indoors for germination and vegetative growth. This will take advantage of the natural light/dark cycle and cut your energy use in half compared to the same operation indoors. A small greenhouseRead More …

A German court has ruled in favor of allowing seriously ill patients to grow their own cannabis for medical treatment. But the ruling, with certain stipulations, could still prevent self-cultivation for some patients. Michael F. is seriously ill. For more than 20 years, the craftsman from the western German city of Mannheim has suffered fromRead More …

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Using brain imaging, researchers found that the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis reduced activity in a part of the brain linked to emotional aspects of pain. But the effect on the pain experienced varied greatly, they said. The researchers’ findings are published in the journal Pain. The Oxford researchers recruited 12 healthy men to take partRead More …

Marijuana is an incredibly important and often life-changing medication for people who suffer a variety of ailments, from pain, nausea and vomiting, to anxiety, migraines, menstrual cramps, glaucoma, cancer, anorexia, and for just plain relaxation. Marijuana is one of the most versatile medications on the planet, effective without needing to be chemically altered like mostRead More …

Behind the bolted steel doors of an old brick warehouse, Big Wes meets a nutrient company scientist to see if he can increase his crop yield. Rows of hydroponic marijuana plants soak up solution flowing through plastic troughs and light blazing from high-pressure sodium lamps. Big Wes has spent more than half his life calibratingRead More …

Low Stress Training, or LST, refers to any method of training your cannabis plants without causing them stress in the way that topping or pruning might. As with most methods of trying to improve the yield of your cannabis plants, LST seeks to make the most efficient use of light. According to the inverse squareRead More …

The term Blue Cannabis refers to any cannabis strain that has Blueberry in its genetic heritage. The original Blueberry was developed by Dutch Passion in the late 1970s and has won many High Times Cups. Blueberry Cannabis is a mostly Indica variety with dark leaves tending to blue and purple hues. Although producing slightly lessRead More …

This is one of those rare instances of unadulterated good news from Washington: the Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors Monday. Two Justice Department officials described the new policy to TheRead More …