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,…
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…
Following part one and part two of this series on cannabis and the body, the physiology and perception of stretching high are clear: cannabis shifts muscle tone, fascia responsiveness, proprioception, and interoception in ways that can make stretching and movement…
Where article 1 in this three-part series mapped cannabis through the tissues — skin, fascia, muscle tone, inflammation — this second article follows those signals upstream into the brain. The ease, fluidity, or deep presence people describe while stretching high…
Plant-assisted movement isn’t a new trend — it’s an old relationship resurfacing. Across cultures, cannabis has long appeared alongside dance, athletic ritual, martial arts, and embodied meditation. What we’re doing now is studying what people already knew: the plant changes…
Art Courtesy of Casey Renteria Genevieve’s Transformative Journey with Cannabinoid Medicine Understanding the Power of Cannabinoid Medicine When I first came into Genevieve’s life, there were none of the smiles and laughter that so many have become used to seeing…
While cannabis use continues to grow in the United States, our framing of it remains archaic, reflecting a non-existent binary that cannabis is either medicinal or recreational. Yet, the truth is that as more Americans use cannabis, they are discovering…
IN THE BEGINNING Read Part I, THE BEGINNING. THE BACKSTORY: I’ve been a performing artist since childhood, attending conservatories and extracurricular programs, primarily in musical theatre. As an only child, I often performed alongside adults, using performance to gain…
Having come from a strict Colombian family, weed was a sore subject in the ‘80s. My parents left Colombia before the Escobar days, but, the news portrayed Colombia as the drug capital of the world. My parents wanted to escape…
