Hawaii’s Cannabis Market: What the State’s Own Data Reveals About a Billion-Dollar Opportunity
Ask A Neuroscientist: Set, Setting, and Structure in Psychedelic Therapy Spaces
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
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 cannabis works in the body. This article explores the intersection of cannabis and grief: how grief works in the brain, what cannabis changes, how it can help, and where…
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
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…