Inside the Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary. Photos by Terry Duncan On Hastings Avenue, five blocks away from the Vancouver Police Museum in Vancouver, Canada, is a conspicuous shop with a day-glo yellow-and-pink sign, boldly announcing the sale of some of the most powerful psychoactive chemicals ever synthesized. Dana Larsen, the owner of the shop—the Coca Leaf Café and … [Read more...] about Psychedelics For Sale: An Interview with the Owner of The ‘World’s Only’ Psychedelic Dispensary
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Weed is not the Enemy
Essay by K.A.H. Conway. Photo by Rushay1977. Content Warning: This essay includes references to substance abuse, grief, and emotional trauma. He stumbled in reeking of rage and rum. Slurred accusations. Tight jaw. Fists clenched like grief had crawled back inside him. I didn’t flinch. I didn’t cry. I didn’t scream. I just sat there, calm, present, inhaling peace … [Read more...] about Weed is not the Enemy
How Edibles, Tinctures, and Topicals Differ in Their Wellness Applications
Photo by katrinshine Dr. Pepper Hernandez ND, Ph.D., CTC, CNHP in ECS and Naturopathic Medicine, is a cannabis therapy consultant, founder and education director of the Cannabis Holistic Institute. Cannabis is a remarkably versatile plant medicine, with multiple ways to deliver its therapeutic compounds into the body. Each method, whether it’s eating an edible, using a … [Read more...] about How Edibles, Tinctures, and Topicals Differ in Their Wellness Applications
NAR: A Cannabis Brand Born from Healing, Hustle, and Heart
All Images courtesy of NAR New York When Nargis Hakimi set out to build her cannabis brand, she wasn’t chasing hype—she was chasing healing. A mother of two who came to the plant later in life, Hakimi turned to cannabis in the wake of divorce, depression, and anxiety. What started as a personal tool for survival and self-love eventually became something bigger: a brand built … [Read more...] about NAR: A Cannabis Brand Born from Healing, Hustle, and Heart
A Christian, A Buddhist, A Rabbi, and A Muslim Walk into a Psychedelic Research Study
Photo credit: Simol1407 In 1962, an experiment by Harvard graduate student Walter N. Pahnke, supervised by Timothy Leary (the influential ‘counter-cultural’ advocate of psychedelics), named the “Good Friday Experiment” took place. Inspired in part by Indigenous use of psychedelics, the study sought to determine if the ingestion of psilocybin mushrooms could induce a … [Read more...] about A Christian, A Buddhist, A Rabbi, and A Muslim Walk into a Psychedelic Research Study