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Last week I showed that a third of vapes sold as THC in the UK contain synthetic cannabinoids. So I pulled 89,000 drug-checking results from a country where cannabis is legal to see what happens to the spice when the weed comes with a label. Short answer: it doesn’t go away. It goes somewhere worse. … Read more

We pulled every cannabis vape tested this year by the UK’s only public drug-checking service. A third contained cannabis. A third contained spice. The rest contained nicotine, nothing at all, or in one memorable case, cocaine and ketamine. Twenty-odd years ago the worst thing you’d find in a British cannabis product was soap bar: hash … Read more

There was no press conference, no ministerial statement, no front-page splash. But buried in the Care Quality Commission’s latest annual controlled-drugs report, published on 9 July, is one of the most remarkable growth stories in British healthcare: medical cannabis prescribing has more than doubled — again. According to The Safer Management of Controlled Drugs: Annual … Read more

Ask ten cannabis consumers whether vaping is healthier than smoking and you’ll get ten confident answers, most of them based on vibes. The actual research is more interesting than the folklore — broadly encouraging for vaporisers, but with a couple of genuine caveats that rarely make it into the conversation. Here’s what the science says, … Read more

There’s a version of cannabis history that gets told a lot, the one where everything changed in October 2018, when Canada flipped the switch and made it legal. Politicians took credit. Newspapers ran think pieces. Stock markets went briefly mental. But if you actually lived in British Columbia during that period, you know the real … Read more

If you’ve ever grown a photoperiod cannabis strain, you know the rhythms: long veg, a deliberate flip to 12/12, weeks of patient waiting. Autoflowers throw that rulebook out the window. These compact, time-driven plants don’t wait for your light schedule to tell them what to do — they follow an internal clock from the moment … Read more

Scientists from Prince of Songkla University in Thailand have discovered a more natural and environmentally friendly way to extract medicinal compounds from cannabis that shows promising results against cancer cells. “We wanted to move away from the harsh chemicals typically used in cannabis extraction,” explains lead researcher Dr. Pharkphoom Panichayupakaranant. “Not only are they toxic … Read more