Blog - Honest Marijuana

By Anthony Franciosi

The Rise of Organic Marijuana: What is Your Marijuana Made Of?

Are you as excited about the rise of legalized, honestly grown organic marijuana as we are!?! Are you as excited about the rise in quality and variety of marijuana as we are? Do your eyes enjoy looking at the different shapes, colors and textures of marijuana? Do you fondle and squeeze marijuana buds while you sniff and compare their aromas exactly the same way you might with a piece of fruit or a vegetable before purchasing it from the grocery store? You will be by the time you finish reading this post if you aren’t already!

Perhaps you’re understandably feeling a bit overwhelmed and anxious at the moment about trying something you haven’t tried before in the midst of all of this new, confusing and sometimes contrary cannabis information. This post will help you learn how to spot the good, the bad and the moldy kinds of marijuana before you spend any of your money and smoke them!

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By Anthony Franciosi

The Real Reasons Weed Is Illegal

Marijuana, pot, weed, cannabis, the green monster, the salad, the good stuff. It has many names and has been the cornerstone of many a heated debate.

23 states have now legalized weed in some form or another and four states and the District of Columbia have (finally, yay) legalized weed for recreational use.

But weed has always been on the long and winding road from cultural staple, to labeled as toxic, to recreational to illegal, to kind of legal and finally (hopefully) legalization for over a hundred years. People have been fighting to get pot legalized since the 1970s. And we thought prohibition was a bitch, sheesh.

There have been many justifications for keeping cannabis illegal in the United States. The government has called it a “gateway drug,” we’ve likened it to heroin and cocaine, we’ve kept our children from it, warning them not to become “potheads.”

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By Anthony Franciosi

The 7 Most Surprising Health Benefits of Marijuana

I recently got high with an old friend from High School for the first time at a grassroots marijuana legalization rally and she reminded me that she was often late for orchestra practice because she liked to get high before she played her string-bass since she felt it helped her pay more attention in class and play better.

Marijuana was popular among Jazz musicians in the early 1900’s because “unlike booze which dulled and incapacitated, marijuana enabled musicians whose job required them to play long into the night to forget their exhaustion. Moreover, the drug seemed to make their music sound more imaginative and unique, at least to those who played and listened while under its sensorial influence.”

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By Anthony Franciosi

Ice Water Extraction

Removing THC Via Ice Water Extraction

Ice water extraction is the process of removing THC laden trichomes from plant material by washing the material in cold water. Also known as bubble hash, full melt or water hash IWE works because THC is denser than water. Most people are familiar with bubble-bags and the process associated with making bubble hash but for those of you don’t here is a brief run down. [Read more…]

By Anthony Franciosi

Canna-Coconut Oil vs Canna-butter in Edibles

Differences between infused coconut oil and infused butter.

Recently we have talked with people about the differences between infused coconut oil and infused butter. While both work well as mediums to infuse cannabis and make edibles at home we believe that coconut oil is the superior transporter.

Commercial butter can be made from poor milk sources from cows who are not out to pasture and have been fed genetically modified corn and soy. [Read more…]

Removing THC Via Ice Water Extraction

Differences between infused coconut oil and infused butter.

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