THC

New York’s two-and-a-half-year-old legal cannabis program is like a fueled-up rocket just steaming on the launch pad, waiting for ignition. The state’s regulators have nearly run out of ways to fumble the ball, and stores are finally…

Make some hot chocolate and settle in over winter break as Leafly’s Nick Jikomes, PhD, unshackles your mind from the chains of both THC and terpene scores. We hereby grant you permission to follow your nose into weed’s wilderness.“What…

In a sea of nearly 6,000 strains, what merits the best? If you flip through an old copy of High Times, or ask an OG smoker about their favorite strains of yesteryear, you’ll get a much different answer than from a 2023 member of Leafly…

Deep in a freezing cave, two hours north of San Francisco, many of the world’s best cannabis breeders, growers, and hashmakers gathered to sow the seeds of 2024’s cannabis hype-cycle and keep its eternal flame burning. Near midnight on…

Weed smokers of America, your budtenders have spoken.Today we present the voices of more than 900 budtenders from across the United States to you, Leafly nation. In October, we enticed them to divulge their picks for best weed strain and…

The Grammy Awards have Record of the Year. Time Magazine has Person of the Year. And Merriam-Webster even does Word of the Year. You know what’s way cooler? Leafly Strain of the Year, and it arrives Tuesday, Dec. 5.So, let’s wet your…

Demystifying the debate on differences and similarities among THC and HHC. THC and HHC have usually been a mysterious subject matter wherein most people are confused about what the similarities and the differences are. Many…

Getting stoned for Thanksgiving dinner has long been an open secret. A wink with a cousin here, a nudge at a sibling there, perhaps a cool aunt or uncle who beckons you with a finger wag. You and your co-conspirators bundle up, slip out…

Leafly’s Dr. Nick Jikomes explains why weed gives some people The Fear—and why it’s sometimes beneficial to face it.Hip surgeries are painful. Patients require potent pain medication afterwards, often for extended periods. Some years…

Leafly’s Nick Jikomes PhD details the bacteria and other organisms living on and inside you, and how cannabis can alter your body’s interaction with this microscopic universe.What is the microbiome?The adult human body is composed of…