Did I Just Make a Severance Joke? You Bet I did. — There’s a lot of focus on cannabis in conversations about cannabis (and rightfully so). Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, a cannabis experience is similarly subjective. Our bodies are complex electrochemical machines that have a panoply of possible actions and interactions. …

The Major Arcana is often described as ‘The Fool’s Journey Into the World.” Not only does this phrase describe the traditional beginning and ending of the Major Arcana (The Fool and The World),, but it also encapsulates how the Major Arcana of the tarot is meant to demonstrate archetypal moments…

I Just Felt Like Playing with the Data Method: I received 2 large csv files from the state totalling 32 Megabytes. Those files detailed 250,000 THC Potency Results and corresponding rows for Moisture Percentage (I wrote about my findings here). To create these visualizations, I read those csv files into…

If the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission Has to Recall Product from the Shelves from Over A Year Ago, How Effective is Monitoring of State-Mandated Testing? — After months of listening to a variety of experts on the subject, I believe that Oregon’s cannabis testing, as it’s performed now, creates a product that is paradoxically both over-tested and under-safe. The stories I’ve been writing are around fraud and over-reporting of THC potency using state data to examine…

I’ve written a lot about how prohibition stunted cannabis research and science. We’ve discussed quite a few areas that remain severely under-researched. While researchers are gaining access to our favorite plant and exploring questions we’ve long had, we still have a lot of questions around storage and preservation — especially…

Then There Were Ten. — A couple of weeks ago, I had the great opportunity to go on the podcast Marijuana Mind and talk testing. It was during that show that Cynthia Brewer, one of the show hosts, helped round out my list of ways labs cheat. A few months ago, I came up with…