Why smoking marijuana while breastfeeding is dangerous

Marijuana can be found in breast milk up to six days after use.

 Why smoking marijuana while breastfeeding is dangerous.(Photo: Pixabay)

 

By ANI

 

Washington: New mothers, if you are smoking pot while breastfeeding then listen up! According to a recent study, marijuana can be found in breast milk up to six days after use.

To better understand how much marijuana or constituent compounds actually get into breast milk and how long it remains, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine conducted a study.
  Fifty-four samples from 50 women who used marijuana either daily, weekly or sporadically -- with inhalation being the primary method of intake --- were examined. Researchers detected tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive component of marijuana, in 63 percent of the breast milk samples for up to six days after the mother's last reported use.

"Pediatricians are often put into a challenging situation when a breastfeeding mother asks about the safety of marijuana use. We don't have strong, published data to support advising against use of marijuana while breastfeeding, and if women feel they have to choose, we run the risk of them deciding to stop breastfeeding -- something we know is hugely beneficial for both mom and baby," said Christina Chambers, principal investigator of the study.

The World Health Organisation recommends exclusive breastfeeding for up to six months.

Early breastfeeding is associated with a reduced risk of obesity, asthma and sudden infant death syndrome and with improved immune health and performance on intelligence tests. In mothers, breastfeeding has been associated with lower risks for breast and uterine cancer and type 2 diabetes.

Cannabinoids -- marijuana's active compounds, such as THC -- like to bind to fat molecules, which are abundant in breast milk. This stickiness has suggested that, in women who use marijuana, these compounds can end up in breast milk, raising concerns about their potential effects on nursing babies.

"We found that the amount of THC that the infant could potentially ingest from breast milk was relatively low, but we still don't know enough about the drug to say whether or not there is a concern for the infant at any dose, or if there is a safe dosing level," said Chambers. "The ingredients in marijuana products that are available today are thought to be much more potent than products available 20 or 30 years ago."

Marijuana study finds THC in breast milk up to 6 days after mom's use

By Jacqueline Howard,

Doctors are getting a better understanding of how using marijuana can affect a breastfeeding mother's milk supply -- and for how long.

A study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics found that low levels of chemicals in marijuana, like tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, were measurable in several mothers' breast milk up to six days after they said they smoked pot or ate an edible, among other forms of use.

 

"Whether this means that some level -- or any level -- of these metabolites can negatively influence child development is unknown at this point," said senior study author Christina Chambers, a professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego and director of clinical research for the Department of Pediatrics at UCSD and Rady Children's Hospital.

 

"It's important to be able to know the answers to those questions so the advice that pediatricians and obstetricians are giving to pregnant women and breastfeeding women are based on sound evidence," she said. "This is a call to action to take the next steps to study long-term outcomes in these children."

 

Separate research, published last year in the medical journal JAMA, found that the prevalence of marijuana use among a sample of 279,457 pregnant women in California climbed from 4.2% to 7.1% from 2009 through 2016.

 

Physicians and scientists have been taking a closer look at the health implications of marijuana use while breastfeeding since mothers in the United States got greater access through legalized recreational use in several states.

 

Nine states -- Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington -- and the District of Columbia allow recreational sales of marijuana, as well as medical.

'The question is, does it matter?'

The researchers analyzed concentrations of the mind-altering chemical THC and other compounds in the breast milk of 50 women who reported using marijuana. The women had children who ranged in age from newborns to toddlers older than 12 months. 

 

Between 2014 and 2017, the women provided 54 total breast milk samples, which were analyzed at the University of California, San Diego's Mommy's Milk lab, a human milk research biorepository. 

 

The women also reported in questionnaires whether they were exposed to marijuana, medications and other substances in the 14 days before their milk samples were collected.

 

After analyzing the milk samples, the researchers found that THC was detectable in 34, or 63%, of the 54 samples. The average concentration of THC found in those samples was 9.47 nanograms per milliliter. The researchers also found five, or 9%, of the 54 samples had measurable concentrations of cannabidiol, another chemical in cannabis.

 

The researchers then calculated how much THC an infant would ingest from that concentration.

 

Taking into consideration breastfeeding frequency, quantity of milk ingested and other factors, the researchers estimated that a hypothetical 3-month-old, weighing 6.1 kilograms or 13 pounds, would ingest about 0.040 nanograms of THC per milliliter of milk. 

 

"The question is, does it matter? ... Is it possible that even low levels in breast milk may have an effect on a child's neurodevelopment? And we don't know the answer to that," Chambers said.

 

The study had some limitations, including that the researchers relied on the women to remember their marijuana use or exposure and then report that use. The researchers also did not test what levels of THC or other compounds were in the breastfed infants themselves, instead relying on their own estimates.

However, Chambers said that more research is to come.

 

The researchers are planning another study to better understand how cannabis exposure might be associated with neurobehavioral testing outcomes in children.

 

"That's a testable hypothesis and something that we want to move forward with trying to answer, because it's a critical question," Chambers said.

How chemicals can get into breast milk

For now, the study "attempts to fill a large gap in our knowledge about marijuana use and breastfeeding," said Dr. Robyn Horsager-Boehrer, professor and chief of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Texas Southwestern's William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital in Dallas.

 

THC or other components of marijuana can enter a mother's breast milk supply because blood vessels in the breast provide access to the glands where milk is produced, said Horsager-Boehrer, who was not involved in the study.

 

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That access allows chemicals or medications in the blood to transfer into breast milk, depending on the "size of the compound, the concentration in the maternal bloodstream and whether the medication or chemical is bound to fats and proteins," Horsager-Boehrer said.

 

"THC is very soluble in fat, and since breast milk has a high fat content, it isn't surprising to see these results," she said of the study.

 

Yet the study did not directly examine what the significance would be for an infant.

 

"To look at that, we'd first have to see if levels in the milk translate into levels in the infants' blood," said Dr. Melissa Bartick, an assistant professor of medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts, who was not involved in the study..

 

"We would have to measure any cognitive, intellectual and behavioral effects on the children as related to blood levels, while eliminating confounding factors such as exposure during pregnancy and the effects of parenting while under the influence," she said. "So there is little we can advise from this study except more research."

What recommendations say for women

The American Academy of Pediatrics published a new clinical report accompanying the study, with recommendations for breastfeeding and pregnant women who use marijuana. 

 

The recommendations state that marijuana should not be used during pregnancy and that marijuana use while breastfeeding is discouraged -- but they also recommend women be informed about the lack of definitive research on this topic and counseled about the current concerns regarding potential adverse effects of THC on pregnancy and child development.

 

This emphasis on being informed was something that stood out to Dr. Alison Stuebe, an associate professor of maternal-fetal medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, who was not involved in the clinical report or the study.

 

"Very often, medical documents make statements that women should 'not be allowed to breastfeed when they use marijuana.' That approach presumes that women need to be told what to do, rather than being given information to make informed decisions," said Stuebe, who is also a board member of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

 

"As a women's health provider, I believe we should provide women with information and advance their understanding so they can make informed choices," she said. "I was really happy to see counseling as an emphasis of this document."

 

Dr. Sheryl Ryan, a professor of pediatrics and chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, wrote an editorial that accompanied the new study.

 

She wrote that both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommend counseling moms to abstain from all cannabis products if they wish to breastfeed.

 

The new study provides support for those recommendations, she wrote.

 

"But the picture is incomplete without our understanding of what is happening at the level of those infants exposed to cannabinoid-containing breast milk," she wrote. "Hopefully, the calls for research to answer these important questions will not go unheeded."

Pot for the People: New Bill Would Allow Federal Employees to Access Weed

As federal agencies actively recruit veterans, a new bill would allow government employees to legally get the treatment that is proving helpful for PTSD and pain management: marijuana 

By Matt Laslo

After losing his legs fighting with his Marine Corps unit in Afghanistan in 2010, Paul was put on a steady regimen of OxyContin, a potent, highly addictive and, back then, heavily prescribed opiate.

After years of intense rehab — as soon as he was physically, mentally and emotionally strong enough — he weaned himself off a daily pharmaceutical cocktail (which also included Ambien, Methadone, Seroquel, etc.) in part by replacing those concentrated chemical compounds with consuming marijuana four to five times a week.

“For me, getting blown up again, I’d rather do that than have to go through the detox of getting off those opioids,” recounts Paul, who asked we not use his real name so he doesn’t get fired for candidly talking to Rolling Stone. “I just never wanted to touch an opioid again if I could avoid it, and that’s the reason that led me to pot.”

But Paul, like countless thousands of others like him in the federal workforce, faces a dilemma every day. He can either resort to popping the opioids he despises — the ones that gave him intense cold sweats and mind altering withdrawals — or risk losing his federal job for using marijuana.

That’s because even federal workers in states where medical marijuana is legal can be fired for consuming marijuana, because it’s still illegal at the federal level.

“I don’t know if I could do my job and live my life as productively without it, so it’s not really a choice,” says Paul. “Either I run the risk of being fired, or I run the risk of not being able to sleep and being miserable and being in pain.”

That’s a risk that federal workers should never face, according to Reps. Charlie Crist (D-FL) and Drew Ferguson (R-GA). They’ve introduced new legislation that would allow federal workers to consume pot if they live in the increasing number of states and territories where medical marijuana is legal in one form or another.

“This has nothing to do with being high,” Crist tells Rolling Stone. “This has everything to do with being pain free.”

The bill, called the Fairness in Federal Drug Testing Under State Laws Act, addresses the growing chasm between federal and state laws that has resulted in marijuana being legal in many localities even as it’s still federally prohibited. Congress has yet to truly address that divide, even as lawmakers from both parties voice support for their voter’s decisions to legalize weed back at home.

That mismatch means federal employees are currently forbidden from accessing the medicine that their neighbors can consume without threat of local prosecution.

“That just doesn’t make sense,” Crist says. “Why wouldn’t we do it for our federal workers in all 50 states by virtue of this legislation?”

It’s unclear how many of the nation’s millions of civilian federal employees or contractors use marijuana for medicinal purposes, but Paul isn’t alone. One survey last year found 11 percent of government employees use marijuana, though the survey included state and local workers, too.

Another survey found 82 percent of the nation’s veterans support medical cannabis programs.

With many federal agencies actively recruiting veterans who are still suffering from PTSD and other injuries related to their service, the legislation is geared towards them, though it extends to all federal employees.

“You’ve got to start somewhere and it seemed to me that starting with helping veterans, would get a sympathetic audience from most Americans,” Crist says.

To help those veterans and other federal employees, the bill’s sponsors are hoping to rethink laws Congress passed in the heart of the Just-Say-No-era. In 1986, Congress passed the Federal Drug-Free Workplace Program, which explicitly barred anyone working for executive branch agencies — think Department of Education, Health and Human Services and the Department of Transportation, to name a few — from using a federally banned substance while on or off duty. That act has kept countless thousands of Americans from getting federal jobs for smoking marijuana in the past or for currently using marijuana to treat their pain, PTSD or just to get a few rest-filled hours of sleep.

“We’ve passed the point of absurdity with respect to disqualifying people from federal service because they’ve tried marijuana,” Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) tells Rolling Stone. “I think that’s a policy that ought to be discarded.”

Under Crist’s legislation, a federal employee can still be tested — and potentially terminated — if they show signs of impairment on the job, and people with top-secret security clearances could still be barred from using weed at all. But most government workers could still use marijuana off hours, and lower level security clearances could still be attained by people who use marijuana regularly for stress or pain relief.

Charlie Crist (D-FL) and Drew Ferguson (R-GA) have introduced a bill to help veterans hold federal jobs while getting access to marijuana. Photo credit: Chris O’Meara/AP/REX Shutterstock, Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images

“Starting, frankly, with my generation, marijuana became fairly commonly used — to disqualify generation of Americans from security clearances or federal employment because they indulged makes no sense at all,” says Connolly, who is 68. “Moving forward, that policy needs to be changed.”

But the bill faces the massive hurdle of the current federal policy of prohibition being in direct opposition to the majority of state policies on pot.

“Marijuana is a controlled substance and we ought to either repeal that or enforce the law,” Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) tells Rolling Stone. “The laws on the books we ought to enforce the law.”

Still, the clouds surrounding marijuana use by federal employees seem ominous in and of themselves, with some lawmakers even questioning whether the current laws on the books are discriminatory.

“You could argue that if it’s been prescribed to you legitimately, not allowing you to do it could be some sort of a discrimination based on medical condition, which could violate other laws,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), who supports decriminalizing marijuana completely at the federal level, tells Rolling Stone.

This latest effort to end the stigma around marijuana use doesn’t seem like it will be going anywhere ahead of November’s election, and it could even be a long shot after the returns come in. But if Congress were to pass the law it would send a signal that would be felt in every corner of the nation.

That’s part of the thinking behind the bill.

“Symbolism is symbolic but also can be powerful,” Crist says. “A message from the federal government…could really send a very powerful message.”

What is worse for you? Alcohol or Marijuana?

By News Track

 

 

There are plenty of factors to account for, including how the substances affect your brain, heart and behavior, and how likely you are to get hooked. While some effects of usage are noticeable immediately, others only begin to appear after months or years of use; hence time needs to be accounted for as well.

Let us consider some factors individually:

• Alcohol causes violence: Several studies have discovered a considerable relationship between drinking and violent behaviour. No such relationship exists for marijuana users.
• Smoking speeds up your heart rate drinking slows it down: Active smoking is linked with a speeded heart rate and hence a higher risk of cardiac arrests and failures. However, drinking a small amount of alcohol reduces the risk of a heart attack.
• Intoxication and road accidents: We know that alcohol content in one’s blood increases the risk of a road accident exponentially. No such link is apparent between marijuana and road accidents.
• Alcohol causes cancer: Chronic usage of alcohol is strongly linked to increased risk of breast cancer. Initially it was suggested that marijuana also causes lung cancer. That idea, however, has been debunked.
• Marijuana is less addictive than alcohol: Statistics prove that a lesser proportion of the weed smoking population is addicted to the substance while a much larger section of the drinking population is addicted. 
• Alcohol is associated with weight gain: Sure, we know weed makes you hungry but research proves that regular smokers stand a lower risk of obesity than non smokers. Alcohol, on the other hand, is linked to a higher risk of becoming overweight or obese.

• Both the substances are linked with higher risk of psychiatric diseases: Frequent drinkers run a higher risk of depression and anxiety. While regular weed smokers are at a higher risk of schizophrenia.
• Both the substances are known to affect the user’s memory: Chronic drinkers are more susceptible to blackouts where the brain becomes temporarily unable to for new memories while regular weed smokers show signs of poorer verbal memory.
• Fatality: Close to 2.5 million alcohol related deaths are annually reported worldwide. While absolutely zero deaths in the history of mankind can be linked to marijuana usage.

      

Now that all the facts are out in the open, it is clear that marijuana is a lot less dangerous to the brain than alcohol is. Therefore it is HIGH time to legalise marijuana (pun definitely intended) so that its usage can be regulated and the population can get acquainted with a safer form of intoxication.

Cannabis-based medicines get green light as UK eases rules

Relaxation of laws means doctors will be able to prescribe medicinal cannabis

Jamie Grierson and Mattha Busby

Doctors in the UK will be able to prescribe cannabis-derived medicine after the government announced a relaxation of laws governing access to the substance.

Thousands of people with drug-resistant conditions will potentially be able to use cannabis-derived medicinal products for treatment after the home secretary, Sajid Javid, announced they should be placed in schedule 2 of the 2001 Misuse of Drugs Regulations, allowing clinicians to prescribe them by the autumn.

Cannabis has been classed as a schedule 1 drug, meaning it is thought to have no therapeutic value and cannot be lawfully possessed or prescribed. It may be used for the purposes of research, but a Home Office licence is required.

The move by the home secretary comes after the government’s official drug advisers and the chief medical officer for England, Dame Sally Davies, separately concluded there was evidence of therapeutic benefit for some conditions.

The reviews came after a number of high-profile cases involving children being denied access to cannabis oil to control epileptic seizures. The cases included those of Billy Caldwell, 12, and Alfie Dingley, six, who have forms of intractable epilepsy, also known as refractory epilepsy, that appear to be eased by the use of cannabis oil.

Announcing the changes, Javid said: “Recent cases involving sick children made it clear to me that our position on cannabis-related medicinal products was not satisfactory. This will help patients with an exceptional clinical need, but is in no way a first step to the legalisation of cannabis for recreational use.” The former Conservative leader William Hague and some senior police officers had advocated such a move.

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When the review was announced, there were reports of divisions within the cabinet over the approach that should be taken, with Theresa May disagreeing that a review should go ahead.

But Javid, who commissioned both reviews, told parliament that if experts identified significant medical and therapeutic benefits, he would be minded to follow their advice.

The Department of Health and Social Care and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will now develop a clear definition of what constitutes a cannabis-derived medicinal product so they can be rescheduled and prescribed. Only products meeting this definition will be rescheduled.

The UK is the world’s largest exporter and producer of cannabis-based medicines; a British company, GW Pharmaceuticals, is the global leader in developing them.

It developed and markets Sativex, a drug for treating multiple sclerosis which has limited availability in the UK. The firm has recently launched an epilepsy drug, Epidiolex, which recently became the first cannabis-derived medicine to gain US government approval.

Campaigners hope the government, the MHRA and businesses will work together to offer patients the most effective medicine. There are fears that it will take some time to develop them, even though they are available overseas under similar licensing regimes.

Prof Mike Barnes, the clinician who successfully applied for a licence on behalf of Alfie Dingley’s family, welcomed the news and expressed his hope that the rules governing medicinal use cannabis would not be “too restrictive”.

“I hope medical cannabis will be available very soon to help the many tens of thousands of people who benefit from the medicine but are currently deemed criminals,” he said. “I hope the government will not make the regulations too restrictive but sensibly open up the way to make good quality, safe cannabis available on prescription.”

Karen Gray, whose 38 Degrees petition for medicinal cannabis for her son Murray garnered more than 240,000 signatures, said: “There are so many children in the UK who will benefit from medicinal cannabis, not to mention the adults that this medication helps also. I am delighted that the government are now acknowledging that cannabis has medicinal value. We still have a long way to go but this is certainly progress.”

Senator Warren on weed legalization: 'The federal government should just back off'

Adriana Belmonte

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) thinks that the federal government should “back off” while an increasing number of U.S. states legalize marijuana for various reasons.

“As you know, many states around the country have legalized marijuana, either for medical reasons or for medical and for recreational reasons,” Warren told Jen Rogers on the Final Round. 

“The problem, of course, is that nothing has changed at federal law.”

Warren noted that during the Obama administration, the policy involved not prosecuting federal laws in states that legalized marijuana. However, current Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed that policy.

Warren and Cory Gardner (R-CO) are now pushing for bipartisan legislation that proposes an amendment to the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Under the bill, people who use marijuana won’t face drug-trafficking charges as long as they comply with state and tribal laws. Essentially, as long as individuals and businesses act in compliance with the state laws, they would be able to operate without fear of federal prosecution.

The bill would make it so that “federal law can stay in place, but if a state has acted and the state has decided to legalize, then the federal government should just back off,” Warren said. “Let the states do what the states want to do. Let them enforce their own laws. That would then fix the problem of anybody being subject to arrest for either purchasing or selling.”

 

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Forty-six U.S. states allow marijuana use for medical purposes. In 2012, Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize weed for recreational use. Massachusetts and Maryland legalized recreational use in 2016. Michigan, Utah, North Dakota, and Missouri will vote on some form of marijuana legalization in November midterm elections.

Warren believes that her proposed legislation would fix the current problem in the banking system, where those in the marijuana business can’t get access to their money because banks are afraid to do transactions with “illegal sources.” She added that the bill would also “fix the tax problems, whether or not a marijuana business can actually deduct its business expenses since — again, according to the federal government — that’s unlawful activity.”

Warren said that it all comes down to a vote on the Senate floor.

“So far, we’ve got Democrats and Republicans on board,” Warren said. “We’ve been bringing them on in pairs to co-sponsor. What we need is we need a vote on the floor of the Senate. And so far, Mitch McConnell hasn’t given us that. But if he would give us that vote, I actually feel pretty confident that we could get this thing passed.”

We Talked To Lake Bell About The Wonders Of CBD & Why Weed Isn't Just For "Stoners"

Sara Coughlin

In this era of CBD bath bombs, weed moms, and, most importantly, more states pushing for legalization, there are as many types of smokers as there are, well, smokers. And while the drug rug and lava lamp set have been well-served for decades now, there's another brand of cannabis users, those whose smoking habits have more to do with wellness than Phish, who might not have seen their aesthetic reflected in the cannabis industry until recently. Actress Lake Bell belongs to the latter group — and lucky for her and her ilk, her husband Scott Campbell, with former fashion executive Clement Kwan, founded a company tailor-made for their tastes.

 

Hailed as the "Hermès of marijuana" by the New York Times, Beboe is the, ahem, high-class, rose-gold-tinted cannabis brand that the smokers of Instagram deserve. Its various vapes and dainty pastilles come in indica and sativa blends intended for "downtime" and "inspiration," respectively. As for Bell's role in the company, she's had a hand in fine-tuning its offbeat, normcore-infused commercial voice (check out the video below to see what we mean).

 

We recently spoke to Bell over email about her personal experience with cannabis and why she's excited to be a part of the Beboe family.

Interview has been edited for length and clarity.

 

Tell me about the first time you tried weed. Where were you, how old were you, who were you with?
"The first time I tried weed was at boarding school. I was 14 years old. Obviously, it was an illegal activity that I was participating in, but I’m just remaining transparent. (Sorry, mom. Sorry, Westminster Boarding School.) It was some delinquent senior I followed into the woods’ fault. I had to pretend that I felt something, because it was my first time and I didn’t know how to inhale."

 

How did your relationship with and use of cannabis develop after that?
"Because it was somewhat underwhelming the first time, I wasn’t wooed by it. Initially, if anything, I was intimidated by the culture of it. It felt like there was a whole way of life you had to subscribe to in order to participate and I didn’t relate to that lifestyle. I mean, sure, I had a fuzzy black light poster like all teens of the ‘90s [and] I had Bob Marley's Greatest Hits, but I never knew the B sides. So I took a hiatus from dabbling in it and then my weed smoking had a reprise when I went to drama school in England, obviously."

What role does cannabis play in your life now — is it purely recreational, do you use it to unwind after a stressful day, is it part of your wellness regimen?
"Cannabis is a massive part of my wellness regime in that it helps me alleviate stress [and] anxiety. I have been historically an insomniac and I now vape or take a Beboe Downtime pastille before bed almost every night."

 

What are your thoughts on the sudden mainstream popularity of CBD? How do you like to use it and do you think it's affecting how people view cannabis overall?
"I always think of CBD as the most socially acceptable version of Cannabis on a mainstream level for obvious reasons. The first time I had heard about it was in certain CBD salves for sore muscles and aches and pains, and inflammation in general... With the onset of cannabis being more accepted in a mainstream environment, even my godfather, who is in his 70s, is asking me to bring him certain CBD products for his arthritis that he can’t get in his state."

 

What was your initial reaction when your husband decided to start Beboe and get into the cannabis industry?
"I was like, 'But you don’t smoke weed.' And he was like, 'Exactly.' He wanted to make cannabis products for people like us, who aren’t stoners but who wanna enjoy weed like it’s a glass of wine."

 

How do you think Beboe is changing and adding to contemporary cannabis culture in general?
"Historically, marijuana culture has felt somewhat collegiate and limiting. Especially in the space of edibles — eating marijuana has always been kind of like the wild west: You never know what you’re going to get. You’d get a pot brownie and be warned: Only take a small bite of the left corner and then chew it and spit it out or else you’ll get fucked up. But now, Beboe not only microdoses so you have a much more reliable level experience, it also transcends the culture in that it accepts and invites a new type of cannabis consumer. The design of the product itself, in its elegance and beauty, reflects the actual product — it delivers an experience that is palatable for both the experienced and the novice cannabis lover."

What's your ideal high activity?
"I’m not sure how original I am with this answer, but I would admit that good old fashioned hanging out with my husband and watching stupid movies together would be my ideal recreational cannabis experience."