The Cannabis Blog
THC for Sleep Apnea: How Cannabis Can Help
Are you often tired, even after a full night of supposed sleep? Do you spontaneously wake up at night for no reason? Or maybe you just snore so loudly your partner wakes you up to get you to stop? All of these are manifestations of a condition known as sleep apnea, estimated to afflict over […]
Mary Mart Dispensary Presents Our Favorite Holiday Events in Tacoma
Tacoma is a scrappy kind of town, and Fall’s early darkness, wet, and cold have never put a damper on its holiday celebrations. In addition to having once hosted—possibly—the nation’s tallest Christmas tree, Tacoma lays out a spread of fun-filled holiday events every year. Here’s our tip-top list of holiday events in Tacoma; if you’re […]
What Are the Benefits of Using Cannabis Topicals?
It seems like marijuana is showing up in more and more products these days. Different companies are figuring out new and exciting forms in which to market cannabis—and not all of them involve smoking. Recently, there has been a trend in the development of “cannabis topicals,” including lotions, shampoos, lip balms, soaps, and cleansing oils, […]
IBS: How Cannabis Can Help This Mysterious Condition?
Irritable Bowel Syndrome. It almost sounds like a joke. What, was grumpy gut already taken? But for 3.5 million Americans, it is anything but funny. There is no known cause, no known cure, and few treatments beyond a few lifestyle recommendations. Following diagnosis, patients are looking down the barrel of an endless road of “management” […]
5 Surprising Celebrities Who Smoke Weed
Celebrities—they’re just like us. They go to the mall, shop at the grocery store, and toke up all the time. In recent years, marijuana has become a lot less taboo, and more and more of our mainstream icons have admitted to smoking the ganja, including former Presidents like Barack Obama and Bill Clinton (although technically […]
Can Consuming Cannabis Keep You Thin?
People who consume marijuana are often portrayed as being lazy, absent-minded, and munchie-craving individuals. This stoner stereotype has persisted over the years despite the decreasing stigma surrounding cannabis. The fear that cannabis will turn active individuals into couch potatoes has driven some away from the drug. It’s times like this where we need to consult […]
Do Cannabis and Creativity Really Go Together?
Cannabis has a reputation of inspiring thought-provoking revelations and allowing one to think in ways they hadn’t before which is the reason cannabis and creativity have always gone together. I can certainly recall more than a few times where my friends and I have passed a joint around under a star-filled sky, spewing mediocre philosophy […]
3 Ways Cannabis Can Improve Your Romantic Relationship
The list of things cannabis is good for is long and growing. For example, some current research we haven’t yet reported on shows that cannabis may have a role to play in treating common stomach disorders such as celiac, Crohn’s, and irritable bowel syndrome, among others. But cannabis, as we all know, works not just […]
How Much Marijuana Use is Too Much?
Too much of anything can ruin a good thing, and cannabis is no exception. Now that the social and legal stigma of marijuana is largely fading, many people are coming around it for the first time and more people are turning to daily marijuana use. With anything new, there’s normal process of testing boundaries, finding […]
How Safe Is Cannabis Oil?
For a majority of Americans, the debate surrounding cannabis’ usefulness as medicine is over and done with (will someone please tell Jeff Sessions?) In numerous recent surveys, Americans have expressed overwhelming support for legal cannabis; some studies put the percentage of those who support medical marijuana at a whopping 88%. Overall, these numbers are on […]