Ask a Neuroscientist: Cannabis in Nature
Paradise in Limbo: Hawaii’s Cannabis Journey and the Road That Keeps Closing
Ask A Neuroscientist: Cannabis and Grief
Cannabis as a People’s Movement: A Story of Community
Ask A Neuroscientist: Cannabis and Sleep
Ask A Neuroscientist: Does Whole Plant Medicine Matter for Cannabis and Psychedelics?
Champions and Supporters: Why Hawaii Still Can’t Legalize Cannabis
The paradox is two decades old and still unresolved; in 2000, Hawaii became the first state to legalize medical cannabis through legislative action with Act 228, signed by Governor Ben Cayetano. California was the first to legalize medical cannabis overall; voters approved Proposition 215 in 1996 with 55.6 percent of the vote, per the California…
Ask A Neuroscientist: Cannabis and Meditation:
What’s really happening in your brain when you combine cannabis and meditation? Cannabis and meditation are showing up together everywhere—from urban yoga studios to wellness retreats across the country. The pairing makes intuitive sense: both are ancient technologies of consciousness, both have moved from prohibition to cultural reclamation, and both promise something increasingly difficult to…
Sovereign Ground: Cannabis, Land, and the Kingdom of Hawaii
This story about cannabis and Hawaiian sovereignty arrived secondhand, mid-interview, at a cannabis expo. Jonah Tacoma, the founder of Dabstars, was wrapping up a conversation about economic mobility and grassroots brand-building when he pivoted. “If you haven’t talked to the Kingdom of Hawaii people, you should get connected with Brandon.” A community liaison Jonah called,…
Haven’t Done This Before: Three Days at the Hawai’i Cannabis Expo
The Hawai’i Cannabis Expo The Immersion The Neal S. Blaisdell Exhibition Hall — 65,000 square feet of air-conditioned exhibit space in Honolulu— is a lot of open concrete floor, and at 9 a.m. on a Thursday, every square foot of it felt like a dare. People were still setting up. Vendors hauled boxes across the…
Ask a Neuroscientist: Why Does Music Hit Different When You’re High?
The Neuroscience of Cannabis and Sound Before you even light up, music is doing serious work on your brain and body. This isn’t poetic metaphor—it’s measurable biology. Across every culture and age group, music reliably shifts mood, attention, and physical state because it plugs directly into core brain systems that handle reward, prediction, movement, and…
Ask A Neuroscientist: Cannabis as Vagus Nerve Medicine?
Is It Really “Nervous System Medicine”? Welcome to Ask A Neuroscientist, a new series on Fat Nugs that takes a scientific lens towards some of the biggest and juiciest questions around how canabis work in the body. In the first article of this series, we explore if cannabis actually activates the vagus nerve, if it’s…