Tangerine Cupcake
A citrus-leaning hybrid with disputed parentage, modest documentation, and a name that promises more than the...
Taproot
The primary central root that grows straight down from a cannabis seed, anchoring the plant and driving early...
Terpene Biosynthesis in Cannabis
How cannabis plants build the volatile molecules behind their smell, from plastid pathways to glandular tricho...
Terpene Degradation During Drying
How cannabis loses its smell between harvest and jar, and what the chemistry actually says about it.
Terpene Panel
A lab test reporting the concentrations of specific terpenes — the aromatic compounds — in a cannabis sample.
Terpene Profiles Reliably Predict Effects
The popular idea that a strain's terpene readout tells you how it will feel is marketing dressed up as science...
Terpenes Are Why Edibles Feel Different
The popular claim that terpenes shape your edible high doesn't survive contact with how digestion and liver me...
Terpineol
A floral, lilac-scented monoterpene alcohol found in cannabis and many essential oils, with limited human evid...
TerrAscend
A North American cannabis multi-state operator with retail, cultivation, and brand operations across the US an...
The Beat Generation and Cannabis
How a small circle of mid-century American writers helped reframe cannabis from criminal vice to literary muse...
The Cannabist Company
A U.S. multi-state cannabis operator, formerly known as Columbia Care, that owns retail stores and house produ...
The Dutch Coffeeshop: A History of Tolerated Cannabis in the Netherlands
How a 1976 pragmatic compromise produced the world's most famous cannabis retail model — and the contradiction...
The Establishment of Drug Courts
How a 1989 experiment in Miami-Dade County spawned a nationwide alternative-to-incarceration model with mixed...
The Extradition of Marc Emery
How a Canadian cannabis seed seller and activist ended up in a US federal prison after a 2005 DEA operation.
The First Billion-Dollar Cannabis Company
How Canopy Growth became the first cannabis company to cross a $1 billion valuation in 2016, and what that mil...
The First Legal Recreational Cannabis Sale in Colorado (January 1, 2014)
On New Year's Day 2014, Colorado became the first U.S. jurisdiction to sell cannabis legally to adults for non...
The Founding of High Times Magazine
How a smuggler's parody of Playboy became the longest-running cannabis publication in the world.
The Founding of NORML
How a young lawyer with a Playboy Foundation grant launched America's longest-running marijuana legalization l...
The Grapefruit Warning and CBD
Why the sticker on your statin bottle also applies to your CBD oil, and what the evidence actually shows.
The Indica/Sativa Myth
The most repeated claim in cannabis culture — that indica sedates and sativa energizes — is not supported by c...
The League of Nations and Cannabis
How a 1925 international convention quietly pulled cannabis into the global drug control system that still sha...
The Ogden Memo (2009)
A Department of Justice memorandum that signaled federal forbearance toward state-legal medical cannabis — and...
The Origin of Girl Scout Cookies
How a Bay Area cross became one of the most influential — and most disputed — cannabis cultivars of the 2010s.
The Origin of Haze (Original Haze)
How a pair of brothers in 1970s Santa Cruz produced the sativa hybrid that reshaped global cannabis breeding.