Cannabis 101 posts
How Does Cannabis Affect Dopamine?
Healers have recommended cannabis in one form or another for many reasons for thousands of years. It’s long been used as a medicinal plant, but in the last century its...
The Important Relationship Between Humidity and Cannabis
When you grow and harvest cannabis, by the time you have the final product in your hands, hopefully your buds are perfectly dried, dense nuggets of goodness. But getting it...
Best Takeout To Get When Baked in DC
After shopping for bud in DC, cannabis consumers may also want to indulge in some tasty local cuisine. Urban Aroma has put together a list of five great places in...
How Does Curing Cannabis Work?
If you want to grow your own cannabis at home, you'll need to learn about the growing and harvesting process. The next thing you'll need to educate yourself on is...
How Does Cannabis Affect Dreams?
The elevating effects of THC, the psychoactive component in cannabis, can change your consciousness when you are awake. Does it affect the way you dream when you're asleep?Many people use...
Everything You Need to Know About CBD
What’s the deal with CBD? Those three little letters have generated a lot of buzz in recent years – and a lot of misinformation. Let’s get down to the facts...
Can You Be Fired For Using Medical Marijuana?
With more people using medical marijuana today than ever before, the question many have is: can you be fired for using medical marijuana? It's a tricky issue. Whether you can...
Why Did DC Legalize Weed?
It's been six years since DC voters successfully passed Initiative 71 in 2014. With the passage of that ballot initiative, the nation’s capital joined the growing number of states and...
Why Do You Need Lecithin In Cannabis Edibles?
Everyone knows about weed brownies, the go-to treat for OG stoners with a sweet tooth. Perhaps you ate one at a party once and had an uncomfortable experience because it...
How to Shop for Weed: A Guide to Buying Flower
Whether you’re new to the plant entirely, haven’t smoked since that one time in college when things got weird, or you’re navigating the legal dispensary market for the first time,...
How Much Is a Gram of Weed in Barcelona?
Barcelona’s cannabis industry is booming, and canna-tourism has exploded alongside it. Spain has never been an expensive country when it comes to getting intoxicated. People from all over the world...
How To Make Weed Brownies
Weed brownies have a storied history in cannabis culture. Some of the most famous weed brownies ever concocted came out of Brownie Mary's kitchen. Mary Jane Rathbun a.k.a. Brownie Mary...
Cannabis Coconut Oil vs Cannabutter
In recent years, infused cannabis-based products like cannabis coconut oil and cannabutter have become super popular with home cooks. Cannabis consumers are taking full advantage of the benefits of the...
What Is BHO?
Cannabis has come a long way from the joints and doobies of old, along with traditional pressed hash. Today, we enjoy a wide variety of cannabis concentrates that are extracted...
How To Make Cannabis Coconut Oil
Cannabis enthusiasts in many US states have celebrated the legalization of their favorite plant in recent years. Legalizing weed for adult use has opened new doors for consumers to buy...
How To Make Cannasugar
What Is Cannasugar? It's simply sugar that has been infused with cannabis. You probably wouldn't find cannasugar in your mom's kitchen! It's not likely that your mom ever baked a...
Easy Cannabutter Recipes and Tips
Learning the building blocks of the cannabis kitchen with edibles expert and chef Rachel Burkons, with recipes for easy-to-make cannabis-infused butter and vegan cannabutter! It’s a well-known secret in the...
What Are Cannabis Concentrates?
These days, more Americans than ever have access to legal cannabis, and with an expanded market comes more ways to consume. Enter stage left, cannabis concentrates. In an industry where...
Eating Green: How Do Edibles Work?
Who amongst us has not made a batch of pot brownies, eaten a few, waited, didn’t feel anything, and had some more? And then some more. And then some more....
What Is RSO?
In the world of cannabis concentrates, there's one you may have heard a lot about: RSO. Developed in the late 1990s by Rick Simpson after he was diagnosed with a...
Why Does Smoking Weed Give You The Munchies
You can almost bet that anytime you smoke weed, you'll get a case of “the munchies!” Weed smokers all know the feeling: an insatiable, fierce hunger for something. You might...
How To Make Green Dragon Tincture
Tinctures have been around for more than 1000 years. They are thought to have been invented by the Egyptians when they learned to distill alcohol. Distilled alcohol was used to...
What Is Decarboxylation, And Why Does Your Weed Need It?
In its raw plant form, the cannabis plant will not get you high. Try as you might, if you nibbled on some leaves or gnawed on some raw buds, sure,...
What Are THC, CBD and Other Cannabinoids?
When you think of cannabis, you might envision its rich green, serrated leaves, or fondly recall its telltale dank smell. You might also remember the nights you’ve taken CBD to...
How To Make Cannabis Tea
It's amazing how people have come up with so many ways to take advantage of the medicinal effects of cannabis. Some cultures have benefited from the use of cannabis for...
How To Store Weed Properly
When it comes to how you choose to store your weed, you've got several different options. However, there are some key precautions to be taken if you want your weed...
Five Key Cannabis Terpenes and Why They Matter
The coolest thing about terpenes is that even if this is the very first time you’re seeing this word, you already know and love terpenes. Although we talk about terpenes...
What is Cannabis Rosin?
Cannabis rosin appears to have entered the market a little over a decade ago – it was supposedly 'invented' and popularized by a member of an online cannabis forum somewhere...
What is Kief, and What Can You Do With It?
Aside from mechanically or chemically extracted concentrates, kief is the most potent cannabis concentrate in its natural form - it can contain up to 55% THC. Kief is just a...
What is Shatter?
Shatter is one of the many popular types of cannabis concentrate, falling under the sub-category of butane hash oil (BHO). It is extracted from the cannabis flower by using butane,...