Back in March we wrote that the federal hemp ban takes effect in November. That is now only half true. A funding bill signed in September pushed most of the ban back a month, but one piece of it still lands on schedule, and it is only three weeks away. Here is where things stand
The Hemp Ban Got Split in Two: What Ends November 12 and What Waits Until December 11 Read More »
For decades the line on cannabis and the brain has been the same: it fogs your memory and slows you down. A new study out of the University of Colorado looked at people in middle age and later life, and it found something close to the opposite. The researchers used the UK Biobank, a health
Every few years one strain name escapes the grow room and starts showing up everywhere at once. Menus, podcasts, trade shows, Reddit, the guy at the gas station. In 2026 that name is Toad Venom, and I cannot remember the last time a single cultivar pulled this much attention this fast. The prices tell the
Toad Venom Is the Most Wanted Strain in Years. One Plant Explains Why. Read More »
Humboldt County owns the single most valuable brand name in American cannabis. Right now we are giving it away for free. Not selling it. Not licensing it. Giving it away, one $20 eighth at a time, to anybody willing to print the word on a package. I have lived here long enough to watch this
Humboldt Cannabis Isn’t Dead. But We Could Lose the One Thing Nobody Else Can Grow Read More »
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
The Four Things You Have to Measure Before You Can Say Cannabis Helped Read More »
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
The IRS Said Yes — and What That Does and Doesn’t Mean Read More »
CDSI’s federal SAM.gov registration is active — the institute is now federally registered and grant-eligible. The 501(c)(3) determination is still pending.
The Cannabis Device Safety Institute Is Now Federally Registered Read More »
A countertop ceramic oven that brings your whole banger or slurper to an exact temperature — then burns it clean at the end of the week. No torch, no iso, no guessing.
Heat-N-Clean: The Oven That Heats Your Glass Perfectly — Then Cleans It For You Read More »
The Cannabis Device Safety Institute has filed IRS Form 1023 for federal 501(c)(3) recognition — application filed and pending, not yet granted. Here is the hardware-safety gap we exist to close.
We Filed Our Federal 501(c)(3) Application — and the Gap We Filed to Close Read More »
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.
Why I just incorporated the Cannabis Device Safety Institute Read More »
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
Cannabis Prohibition By The Numbers: $1 Trillion Spent, 29 Million Arrests, Zero Winners Read More »
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
