As coffee crops are threatened, year after year, by disease, insects, and economic forces, industry turns its eyes to possible alternatives, one of which is hemp. A new study, in Italy, assesses some of the potential of pot coffee brewed in a pot. The study is: “A Cup of Hemp Coffee by Moka Pot from […]
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Relative Risk of Motor Vehicle Collision on Cannabis Day Celebration
How high is the risk of colliding on a highway with someone who is high, on a highness celebration day? The answer, if there is one, can perhaps be teased out by studying this new study of drivers in the UK and also older study of drivers in the USA: “The Relative Risk of Motor […]
A newly described illusion – the Pot/Lid Illusion
“The pot is on the stove. The lids are in the drawer. You open the drawer, seeing disordered lids of different sizes, many set nearly vertical to help with drying. You take the one that looks correct: too big! You try again with one that looks one size too small, and— surprise! —it matches the […]
Petrography: Polynesia’s Prehistoric Pot
In further celebration of Pot Week, here’s a mid-Pacific pot study. “Among Polynesia’s First Pots,” David V. Burley and William R. Dickinson, Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 37, Issue 5, May 2010, Pages 1020-1026. (Thanks to investigator Tom Gill for bringing this to our attention.) The authors,at Simon Fraser University and at the University of […]
Check the marijuana in your muffins
If a friend or, alternatively, a police undercover agent, gives you a tempting marijuana muffin, how can you know whether it’s made with real marijuana? A report called Identification of Cannabinoids in Baked Goods by UHPLC/MS tells how to do it easily and directly – or as the professionals say, with “minimal sample preparation, and […]