A friend once told me he had stopped smoking for more than a week before taking a pre-employment drug test. He wasn’t going to work high. He hadn’t smoked that morning, the night before or even the weekend before. He walked into the testing center feeling pretty confident, peed in the cup and went home. He failed. His first reaction was basically, “How can I fail a drug test when I’m not high?” That question exposes one of the strangest problems we still have with cannabis. We have gotten...

There are few things more heartbreaking in cannabis cultivation than watching a gorgeous plant make it all the way to October only to discover that something is quietly destroying the buds from the inside out. I learned about bud rot the unpleasant way. The first time someone showed me an infected cola, I honestly didn't see what they were talking about. From the outside, most of it still looked like perfectly good flower. Then they gently pulled one of the little sugar leaves sticking out of...

You went to bed high. So why does it still feel like your brain hasn't clocked in the next morning? A friend of mine recently learned one of the oldest lessons in the edible handbook. She ate one. About 40 minutes went by. Nothing. So she ate another. Still nothing. Then another. You already know where this story is going. At some point, all three apparently received the same memo and showed up for work at once. When I saw her the next day, she wasn't exactly high anymore, but she...