I want to talk about the thing underneath all of this, because I don’t think I’ve ever laid it out plainly in one place, and it’s the actual reason the Cannabis Device Safety Institute exists. Start with the only question that really matters. Not is this legal, not is this clean, not what’s the terp […]

Back on June 3rd I published a piece here saying the Cannabis Device Safety Institute had filed its federal application, and I made a point of leaning on that word — application. Filed, not granted. Pending, not approved. Not a tax-exempt charity, contributions not deductible, and we’d say so plainly every time, because saying it

There is no federal or state safety standard for the devices Americans use to consume cannabis concentrates. So I built the institute that should already exist. CDSI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, independent lab, and standards body — and the site is live at cdsi.click.

The War on Drugs is one of the most thoroughly studied failures in American policy history. We know how much it cost. We know how many people it arrested. We know what it did to families, communities, and the federal budget. The numbers are published every year by the Department of Justice, the FBI, the

There is a question most people never think to ask: why do we call it “marijuana”? Doctors called it cannabis for a thousand years. Prescriptions for cannabis tinctures were filled by American pharmacists from the 1840s until 1937. The Pharmacopeia of the United States listed Extractum Cannabis as an accepted medicine. Queen Victoria’s personal physician

Florida has the strangest cannabis laws in America. It has one of the largest medical marijuana markets in the country. It has some of the harshest recreational penalties outside of Texas. It runs a hemp-derived THC industry the legislature has spent three years trying to kill. And it rejected full recreational legalization at the ballot