Know Your Herbs

Well, the holidays are here — and so is the second (or third?) wave of Covid. Like all things 2020, it’s going to be a strange season to navigate, with varying degrees of lockdown and travel advisories marring any plans you may have had. And while everything about the holiday season doesn’t sparkle like tinsel, the dichotomy of familial obligations and nostalgic warmth makes this season what it is. This year, however, we’ll have to manifest that fuzzy feeling on our own.  The key to this pandemic […]

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to federally legalize marijuana in a historic vote on Friday. It’s the day that cannabis reform advocates have been building toward for years—a full floor vote to end prohibition in a chamber of Congress. Prior to the bill’s approval in a 228 to 164 vote, Republican lawmakers spent days criticizing their Democratic counterparts for even bringing the legislation to the floor. While the vote was mostly along party lines, five Republicans supported the reform and six Democrats opposed it. […]