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Each month, we explore a specific health and wellness subject. This month’s theme is “Unwellness”
Who is sick, and who is healthy? It’s 2021, and it would appear that all of us are recovering from something; however, some of the unhealthiest have mistaken their illnesses for vigor, and their ignorance for strength. This month, we’ll be exploring the epidemic of Unwellness in all of its forms, how how it can masquerade as wisdom and truth — and how true health and wellness can call it out.
Featured This Week

Dis-integration
Over the past four years that we’ve opened our Medicine Box, we’ve learned one important thing about plant medicine: people need to complete the circuit. It’s never been about a magic pill that makes a person all better. Community and collaboration fill in the...
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Cannabis Industry Links We Love
Cannabis Industry Links We Love
His dad came back from the war with PTSD. His friends built an app to help. When the symptoms of a night terror begin, the app has the ability to take the person out of the deep sleep they’re in while still keeping them asleep. And when the person wakes up in the morning, data from the night before shows how they slept.
Read MoreCannabis Helps Me Sleep
Cannabis Helps Me Sleep
The end of the ski season always keeps me up at night. Maybe it’s the reduced amounts of exercise and sunshine, maybe it’s a touch of depression from losing my favorite activity, or maybe it’s all in my head, but every spring I cannot sleep.
Read MoreCannabis Industry Links We Love
Cannabis Industry Links We Love
The 55-and-older crowd is now the fastest-growing demographic of pot users in the country. Between 2013 and 2014, the number increased from 2.8 million to 4.3 million.
In California, where medical marijuana is legal, seniors are learning how to fill their prescriptions — at a pot shop.
Read MoreNotes From The Farm, Episode 1
Notes From The Farm, Episode 1
As another season of cultivation unravels before us in Nevada County, we farmers have battled a rather long winter and unstable spring, filled with inclement weather derived from an El Nino year.
Read MoreCannabis Industry Links We Love
Cannabis Industry Links We Love
Blood Testing Drivers for THC is Nonsense, AAA Study Says. At least three states, and possibly as many as eleven, will also vote this fall on ballot measures to legalize marijuana for either recreational or medicinal use, or both. Several legislatures are also considering legalization bills.
Read MoreGuide to Choosing Your Medicine: Part 1
Guide to Choosing Your Medicine: Part 1
When it comes to finding a medicine that truly speaks to what you want to address, there can be a lot of trial and error in the process. Although this journey can be fun and a good way for you to get to know the bountiful, beautiful Mary-Jane, it can also be draining if your needs are not being met.
Read MoreCannabis Industry Links We Love – Mother’s Day Edition
Cannabis Industry Links We Love – Mother’s Day Edition
Token Women to Tokin’ Women: Three Days at a Conference for Ladies Who Simply Love Weed “I thought I was going to move to Tahoe and write cookbooks. And then I got cancer. Twice,” she told me. Finding treatment hammered it home to her that “weed is a social justice issue.”
Read MoreBest Time for Medicated Chocolate Truffles
Best Time for Medicated Chocolate Truffles
Happy Thursday my people! If you read our strain spotlight blog post from a few weeks ago, you know that our chocolate truffles are made using the extremely calming Afgoo strain. This intense indica boasts strong relaxing and pain relieving qualities.
Read MoreCannabis Industry Links We Love
Cannabis Industry Links We Love
How Cannabis Can Help Introverts
Introverted smokers however combat this energy loss with different strains of cannabis. Cannabis that is high in THC, like hybrids or Sour Diesel, will immediately give you a boost of feeling alert and energized.
Read MoreTesting and Terpenes
Testing and Terpenes
Here at Medicine Box we are huge believers in transparency: everyone deserves to know what they’re putting into their body. With that in mind, we wanted to share the lab report from the oil we’ve been putting into our chocolate truffles.
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Cannabis Industry Links We Love
Most symptoms of “greening out” (imbibing too much cannabis) will dissipate within minutes to hours, with no lasting effects beyond a little grogginess. Give it some time and these feelings will eventually past, trust us.
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