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Weed Sodas: Great for People Who Hate Weed

#420 #BlueDesiel #CannaCola #Cannibis#Kush  #OlalaOrangeCreamSoda #Weed  The market for weed sodas is clearly increasing—more companies are making them and more people are buying them—so I decided to try a few out. I split a bottle of Olala Orange Cream Soda (100 milligrams, $32 at Dockside Cannabis) with my girlfriend before a jazz show, and I drank some Cannabis Quencher Lemonade (100 milligrams, $18 at the West Seattle Marijuana Store) before touring around a park. I looked back on both products with a shrugging meh feeling. Mixing weed soda with jazz was definitely the better of the two experiences. I drank about a third of the Olala about an hour before the show; it tasted clearly like orange soda at first but ended with a strange astringent bitterness. By the time Kahil El'Zabar hit the stage at Columbia City Theater, I was enjoying an engaging high. El'Zabar used percussion, either a drum kit or a small wooden box instrument called a mbira, to create strange, som...

A Single Dose of CBD Reset the Brains of People at High Risk of Psychosis

#CBD #Psychosis #MentalHealth #Medicine #Neuroscience #Psychology #Weed P sychosis, a severe mental disorder characterized by a loss of grip on reality,  can include unsettling hallucinations and delusions . As no one’s been able to pin down a single cause of psychosis, it’s been even harder to pin down a treatment. But researchers behind a new JAMA Psychiatry study seem to be on the right track. In the study, they report that they’ve found a way to reset the psychosis-afflicted brain using an unlikely plant: marijuana. Researchers are increasingly finding evidence that the  active components  of marijuana can help ease symptoms in people with  epileptic seizures ,  chronic pain , and  post-traumatic stress disorder , but there’s much to be learned about its relationship to psychosis. The most well-known  cannabinoid  Δ⁹-tetrahydrocannabinol — better known as THC — has  previously been linked  to the development of psychosis...