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When it comes to the best containers to store your weed in there are many options available to you today. Storing your weed is not like it was in the past. You don’t just keep it in a sandwich baggie.
Today marijuana is much stronger than it was in the past and has a higher quality for flavor along with increased potency. When you leave your marijuana in a sandwich bag, air will get to it and typically within a day or two it will dry up. This causes you to lose potency and flavor.
A great alternative to the sandwich baggie is the Mason jar. The Mason jar is what you will commonly see dispensaries use to store their marijuana on the shelves. Mason jars are relatively inexpensive ranging from free to about a dollar each. Another great item is a smell proof bag. These can be purchased from anywhere between $0.50 and $4. If you go to a dispensary in a legal state you will get one of these when you purchase marijuana.
It is referred to as an exit bag and can be used at home to store your herb. Alternately you might receive your herb in a jar similar to what you would receive pills in from the pharmacy.
Having a place to put your herb is a little bit different than it was in the past. There are endless options for marijuana storage containers. You can find them online at places like Amazon and eBay or you can go to specialty stores that sell marijuana merchandise and find some really wild storage containers. The CVault can hold anywhere between an eight of ganja (3.5 grams) all the way up to 10 ounces depending on which size you buy and resembles a pressure cooker. One of these bad boys will set you back 20 to 40 bucks but it’s a great way to revitalize your old dried-out nugs.
These are just a few great options for containers to store your weed in!
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Can the frequency and intensity of headaches be reduced by daily marijuana usage?
The use of cannabis as a treatment for a headache is nothing new. In fact, about a century ago, western doctors were prescribing cannabis to their patients suffering from various ailments including migraine headaches. The results of a new study may give reason for the return of these prescriptions in the 21st century.
History of marijuana as treatment for migraine headaches
Prior to marijuana’s widespread prohibition in the early 1900’s, British and American doctors were prescribing the plant to treat a variety of medical conditions including headaches. Dr. J.R. Reynolds, the court physician to Queen Victoria in 1890 wrote about using cannabis to treat migraine and other ailments. One year later, American doctor J.B. Mattison’s research concluded that marijuana was capable of both preventing pain from headaches along with their frequency. Several years later a Canadian physician by the name of William Osler published a book and agreed with J.B. Mattison claiming that for migraines, “cannabis indica is probably the most satisfactory remedy.”
This may soon become the discussion among physicians again since the first clinical trials of medical marijuana’s effect on migraine headaches, published earlier this year, illustrated medical benefits for patients suffering from migraine headaches.
Can cannabis use reduce the amount of headaches one suffers from?
According to the study published by Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Colorado Anshutz Medical Campus, the use of medical cannabis can indeed reduce the frequency of migraines headaches for some chronic sufferers.
The study reveals that 39.7% of the migraine sufferers given medical marijuana reported positive effects, the main one being a reduction in the frequency of migraine headaches. About a fifth of the patients reported a reduction in migraine frequency and more than a tenth of them reported the complete stop of their migraine headache. The only negative effects reported were experienced by users who ingested edible marijuana as opposed to other forms. It was found that inhalation provided the most immediate relief to an ongoing migraine. This may be due to something called the entourage effect: the combination of multiple cannabinoids such as cannabidiol (CBD) or THC for added medical benefits. Despite the evidence of better treatment from smoking over other methods, many states that allow medical marijuana still prohibit the selling and use of the raw plant for smoking.
“One of the superiorities of smoking or vaporizing cannabis is quick onset of relief. Because smoked or vaped marijuana is immediately absorbed into the blood stream by the lungs, where it enters the heart and is transported directly to the brain, cannabis can begin to help patients within a little as two-and-a-half minutes of consumption.” – Gooey Rabinski, Advocate for Cannabis Patients.
The inhalation of cannabis provides sufferers of migraines with faster relief and less negative side effects when compared to edibles and other methods of pain relief.
Alternative to painkillers
Other forms of medication for headache relief such as aspirins come with a multitude of harmful side effects. “Common side effects of Bayer Aspirin include rash, gastrointestinal ulcerations, abdominal pain, upset stomach, heartburn, drowsiness, headache, cramping, nausea, gastritis, and bleeding.” These side effects are much more harmful to patients than the ones associated with marijuana usage. With the first clinical trials of medical marijuana on migraine patients revealing positive results, we’re hopeful that patients will be able to access a safer alternative to painkillers sooner than later.

If you have ever had sex while high on the ganja you know it can be quite the experience! Cannabis has shown to be a sexual enhancer for many consumers and many attest that the pleasure is much more significant when they have taken a few tokes before engaging in sexual activities. But have you ever stopped to think about cannabis consumption within the legal adult porn industry? I hadn’t either until an article I ran across in my research sparked my curiosity so I looked into the subject further and was surprised with my findings.
I found that many movies and TV shows portrayed the adult film star industry as one big drug and sex-filled orgy party but what the stars are saying I found to be much different. In fact, the use of any substances that are not prescribed is actually highly frowned up by the suits of the industry. Before many filming sessions, stars must submit a video or written documentation attesting that they are in no way, shape, or form under the influence of non-prescribed drugs or substances. Unfortunately, this includes cannabis as well since it is still considered illegal at the federal level even in states with legal retail and medicinal marijuana markets.
This does not mean that no one goes on camera elevated from the herb, however. In my research I found that there is a small percentage of “cam stars” that will consume on camera, however, these are typically live performers over an internet web cam stream rather than film stars who perform for productions that will be sold on a commercial level.
So next time you’re tokin and pokin remember all those who do it for a living that can’t enjoy the two together and enjoy a toke for them too!