The really awesome thing about herbs is that many of the ones that are nice to smoke may also offer their own therapeutic or psychoactive effects—and many even share some of the same terpenes as cannabis.

Losing your high sucks. Luckily, it’s absolutely and totally fix-able. But before we get into the how, it might be helpful to know the why. Tolerance to weed (and other substances) all comes down to the body’s unending mission to achieve homeostasis and the built-in receptors in our brains that get turned-on when they meet an activating substance.

Everything feels more heightened, from the sound of music to the taste of food to—yes—the way it feels to be touched.

The new cannabis brands want to give you a wellness experience.

Though the history of this heady day—like so many other counterculture references—is a bit murky, legend has it that the phrase “420” was originally police code for “Marijuana Smoking in Progress.” Other rumors state that it all started (where else?) in a parking lot before a Grateful Dead show.

Some places have a certain energy: You feel it the moment you arrive—or, in some cases, the moment you even begin to think about visiting. And while some of those places—like Machu Picchu, Easter Island, or the temples of Tibet—are known worldwide as destinations where spiritual seekers, vortex hunters, and healers gather, there are places even closer to home that hold a similar cosmic draw.

“Women across the globe are actively remembering who we were before patriarchy put all our fierce and feminine powers into the darkness, called them taboo, and then taught us all to be afraid of the dark.”

It is the longest day and the shortest night of the year, the beginning of summer, and an annual event steeped in mystical tradition.

Even modern, scientifically minded humans who have experienced a total eclipse admit that the event is unlike anything they’ve ever witnessed—an almost spiritual occurrence that transcends logical understanding.

In the tarot, the moon is a symbol of the unconscious realm and the unknown, of dreams and—as Mark Twain so famously wrote—the shadow self: “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

A few things to take into account if you’re thinking of adding cannabis to your own nuptials.

It’s spring, and we all know what that means: UFO sightings across the country are about to spike. According to a new book, in some places those sightings are really about to spike