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Most of the cannabis research we’ve covered on this blog involves oral or inhaled cannabinoids. A newly published pilot study takes a different route entirely — a CBD-based enema — and targets a specific, difficult-to-treat condition: ulcerative proctitis, a form of inflammatory bowel disease affecting the rectum. It’s a good opportunity to walk through how…

We’ve spent this blog covering the established evidence base for cannabis — what’s well-supported, what’s promising but preliminary, and what remains largely anecdotal. Today we zoom out and look at the research pipeline itself: 2026 has been an unusually active year for cannabis science, with hundreds of peer-reviewed studies published across an enormous range of…

We’ve covered hemp’s case in textiles and construction on this blog; paper is the third pillar of the industrial hemp story, and in some ways the oldest one. Long before hemp fabric or hempcrete were being discussed in sustainability circles, hemp was already the world’s dominant papermaking fiber — a fact that’s easy to forget…

Across this blog we’ve covered hemp’s potential in textiles, its therapeutic cousin’s place in medicine, and the regulatory maze around cannabis more broadly. There’s a third industrial application that deserves its own deep dive, and it’s arguably the one with the most concrete (pun intended) momentum right now: construction. Hempcrete and related hemp-based building materials…

In our very first post on this blog, we mentioned hemp’s potential for textiles as one of the plant’s most promising industrial applications. It’s time to come back to that thread with a proper deep dive: what does hemp actually offer as a clothing material, why is the fashion industry increasingly interested in it, and…

In our last post, we looked at why the indica-versus-sativa distinction has largely fallen apart under scientific scrutiny, and why researchers now point to a product’s chemotype — its specific mix of cannabinoids and terpenes — as a far more meaningful predictor of effect. This week we go one level deeper: what do we actually…

Ask almost anyone who’s ever bought cannabis, legally or otherwise, and they’ll tell you the basics: sativa is energizing and uplifting, indica is relaxing and sedating. It’s one of the most widely repeated pieces of cannabis knowledge — printed on packaging, used by budtenders, built into entire retail categories. There’s just one problem: according to…

Cannabis has been associated with sexual desire and pleasure across cultures for centuries, but only in the last few years has this connection started to receive serious scientific attention. As legal barriers to research have eased in several countries, a clearer — and more nuanced — picture has begun to emerge: the relationship between cannabis…

If there’s one thing almost everyone associates with cannabis, it’s food. The stereotype of the “munchies” is so widespread it’s become a pop-culture shorthand. But behind the jokes there’s a genuinely interesting area of research, alongside a fair amount of internet folklore that sounds scientific but isn’t quite there yet. In this post we look…

When cannabis comes up in public conversation, the debate tends to polarize quickly between those who see it purely as a substance to be controlled and those who champion every possible use. The reality, as is often the case, is more nuanced and deserves a closer look at two distinct but related dimensions: the plant’s…

In our first two posts, we covered the therapeutic benefits of cannabis and the scientific evidence supporting its use for certain conditions. To keep this blog genuinely balanced and useful, though, we can’t stop there: the same scientific literature that documents the benefits also documents real risks worth knowing about — whether you’re considering therapeutic…

In our first post, we gave a general overview of cannabis benefits and the potential of industrial hemp. Today we want to dig into something more specific: what the scientific literature actually says about using cannabis to treat certain conditions. This is delicate territory, often described either with too much enthusiasm or too much skepticism.…