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Imagine if every year around Christmas time, Jay-Z, Nas, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Future, and the world’s top rappers all decided to enter a studio together and see what magic they could make for two weeks straight. That’s the equivalent of what goes down leading up to 4/20 at the Everdream studio in Evergreen, Colorado, where many of the nation’s top glass artists get together and collaborate.
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Whether by car or plane, renowned glass artists assemble at this artistic haven in Evergreen, Colorado, just 45 minutes west of Denver.

A young Utah man has died after being denied a lung transplant due to traces of marijuana in his system. At the age of 19, Riley Hancey caught pneumonia after contracting the flu. The pneumonia led to a lung infection, causing both of his lungs to collapse. Hancey spent two months hospitalized at the University of Utah Hospital, where doctors determined that he needed a double lung transplant in order to survive.

However, the University of Utah Hospital denied the young man a transplant when Hancey tested positive for THC.

A new study published this month in the Journal of Psychopharmacology reports that even small doses of MDMA can enhance emotional empathy towards others. Researchers in the Netherlands and Switzerland conducted six double-blind studies on a total of 118 participants. Each individual ingested a 75mg MDMA pill, a 125mg MDMA pill, or a placebo pill, and then completed an empathy test.

The researchers found that the drug enhanced emotional empathy, meaning a person's affective response to another person's emotional state.

A new advocacy campaign in Switzerland hopes to end cannabis prohibition and create a taxed and regulated nation-wide industry. 

Currently, cannabis containing less than 1% THC is legal and sold over the counter in the notoriously neutral country, but any bud that will actually get you high can still land you a 100 franc fine or jail time if you’re holding more than nine grams.

According to Swiss newspaper The Local, the new proposal would be similar to American single state efforts to legalize, with a taxed and regulated retail system making THC-full weed available in the same manner

How Medical Marijuana Can Benefit FamiliesWhat if your little girl was suffering from nearly 200 seizures daily, and modern prescriptions weren’t doing much of anything to curb the symptoms or reduce the seizures? Imagine being the little girl’s family who reviewed anecdotal claims that marijuana oil could help relieve her epilepsy. You’d likely already resolved to do whatever you could to bring her the slightest relief.

Patient diagnosed with Chiari malformations finds relief with CBD cannabis oil.
In 2008 Paula Medina was suffering from anxiety, nerve pain, severe migraines, dizziness, numbness, difficulty swallowing, blurry vision, and tingling throughout her body. She went to two different physicians during the course of 2008 and 2009 for treatment. Both ordered MRIs and upon receiving the results each told her “it was all in her head,” recollects Medina, who is 48.
Because her symptoms continued to persist she went to a third doctor in 2011 who ordered another MRI.

In this Monday, March 13, 2017 photo, Ian Lewis, poses in the lobby of Hope Academy in Indianapolis. Lewis wants to be a vet someday. His owl-and-skull tattoo remind him to be wiser than two user friends who overdosed and a third who died driving drunk. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
When Logan Snyder got hooked on pills after a prescription to treat pain from a kidney stone, she joined the millions already swept up in the nation's grim wave of addiction to opioid painkillers.

She was just 14.
Youth is a drawback when it comes to kicking drugs.

It is essential that cannabis industry professionals stay educated and current on cannabis policy and science as this industry continues to develop.  There is an excellent opportunity to do just that in Portland , Oregon this evening.From the Oregon Cannabis Association (OCA):The Oregon Cannabis association and the Portland Mercury present “Toke Talks”, an evening of TedX style programming with some of the finest minds in Oregon cannabis. Special keynote speaker Rep. Earl Blumenauer kicks off an evening of 10 minute talk about cannabis, from the practical to the esoteric.

Though the first day of Coachella had a few hiccups, including some technical difficulties during Radiohead’s two-hour headlining set, fans were, for the most part, treated to a packed day of amazing music and art — a weed smoker’s dream.
Today is day two, with a slew of top-notch musical acts set to touch the Coachella stages.