by Brooke Blazr | Aug 30, 2026 | High Dispatch
“Think Marijuana Helps Relax? New Study Links Cannabis With Higher Levels Of Stress Hormone.” That’s the headline that’s been making the rounds, courtesy of a health tabloid site that specializes in the kind of alarming framing designed to...
by Brooke Blazr | Aug 29, 2026 | High Dispatch
There’s plenty of competition in the U.S. cannabis retail market. Pew Research reports that nearly 15,000 dispensaries are operating nationwide; and 79% of Americans live in a county with at least one. With so many options, the in-store experience and store design...
by Brooke Blazr | Aug 28, 2026 | High Dispatch
The slang of drug combinations is a genuine cultural product—inventive, adaptive, and revealing of how people actually use substances rather than how policy documents imagine they do. It is also a map of elevated risk. Poly-substance use multiplies uncertainty. It...
by Brooke Blazr | Aug 27, 2026 | High Dispatch
Beneficial yeast in cannabis cultivation is a legitimate scientific idea borrowed correctly from real agricultural microbiology and then extended, without direct evidence, into cannabis-specific marketing claims. The mechanism is credible. The cannabis-specific...
by Brooke Blazr | Aug 25, 2026 | High Dispatch
Many things have changed in the world of cannabis in recent decades thanks to the hard work of cannabis activists around the globe and the spread of policy reform. Unfortunately, some things have remained the same, particularly unfounded claims being made by cannabis...
by Brooke Blazr | Aug 25, 2026 | High Dispatch
Male cannabis and hemp plants release huge quantities of it in mid-to-late summer, which happens to be a lean season for flowering plants in a lot of agricultural landscapes — what researchers call a “floral dearth.” A 2019 Cornell University study...
