A Weekly Roundup of Stories We Found Interesting – From The Profound To The Profane

6 States That Could Pass Marijuana Initiatives This Year
The initiative and referendum process continues to serve as a direct popular vote alternative to the crapshoot that is trying to get a pot bill through two houses and signed by a governor. Here are the six states that have a serious shot at legalizing either recreational marijuana or medical marijuana this year.

Girl Scout Sells 300 Boxes of Cookies Outside a California Marijuana Dispensary
A brilliant 9-year old Girl Scout from San Diego 312 boxes over the course of about six hours after setting up her wares in front of Urbn Leaf dispensary. And there are people who get all angry over this.

Marijuana Can Save Lives
An op-ed piece in the New York Times written by Richard A. Friedman, a professor of clinical psychiatry and the director of the psychopharmacology clinic at the Weill Cornell Medical College, suggested that marijuana is not a dangerous gateway drug as per Sessions’ proclaimed this week, and can be helpful to save lives in the opiate crisis.

Why States Should Limit the Potency of Marijuana
Marijuana legalization states have taken no steps to limit the potency of marijuana, which has increased sharply in recent years. A new study suggests this could create public health problems down the road as more users become addicted or otherwise impaired.

This Family Of Doctors Wants To Change The Way You Think About Weed
There are very few U.S. medical professionals who specialize in cannabis therapeutics. In Oregon, these doctors operate a cannabis therapeutics clinic where they counsel new and experienced cannabis patients alike on the best treatment options for their conditions, the best way to deliver the medicine (e.g. vaping, topical, ingesting), and how to mitigate undesired effects. These are all aspects of cannabis medicine that a general practitioner might not know as much, or indeed anything, about.

The Science Behind A Wake And Bake
If you’ve ever consumed marijuana in the morning, you may have found yourself wondering about the science behind a wake and bake.

MannaBot One: a 3D Printer for Cannabis Patches
MannaRobotics has built a 3D printer for printing cannabis extracts. The MannaBot One (MB1) delivers a programmed amount of cannabis extract onto a transdermal patch, which can be stuck onto the skin for a controlled dosage over time.

5 Female-Run Weed Companies That Are Getting the Industry Lifted
From home decor to beauty, tech to fashion, these women-run companies are giving female stoners the products they want and changing the cannabis game.