Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walking into a cannabis dispensary for the first time can be an overwhelming and intimidating experience. Many budtenders are ...

Election season has come and gone, and one of the most impactful changes that will take place as a result is the legalization of recreational cannabis in four more states, and medical in even more ...

Way back in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the biologist Jean Baptiste Lamarck was busy at work proposing interesting theories that were destined to be proven wrong. One of these was the ...

A long time ago, when only landrace genetics existed in the genus Cannabis, the terms Cannabis sativa L. and Cannabis indica Lam. were created to identify these two species of the Cannabaceae family.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dario Sabaghi covers the cannabis industry with a focus on Europe. In recent years, the cannabis industry has bred and churned out ...

Throughout the decades since cannabis prohibition began in 1937, its use by humans has been largely misunderstood due to a lack of research, funding and legality. This has left us guessing as to why ...

Peruse the products at any cannabis dispensary in America, and you’ll see two words over and over again: Indica and sativa. Cannabis indica, your local budtender will tell you, refers to one type of ...

Cannabis growers and sellers have defined different strains of cannabis as ‘indica’ or ‘sativa’ for decades to describe their different effects. But scientists have now found that there is in fact no ...

Indica and sativa are commonly used to describe cannabis strains, but what’s the difference between these two labels? Some people are adamant that indica strains are sedative with earthy aromas. In ...