Tens of millions of people are adopting the organic diet, and for good reason: The dangers of GMOs and pesticides that are infesting our environment are worsening by the year, and the only way to reverse the damage is to shun them both. But eating organic is also much healthier because doing so helps rid […]

In many industries, consumers purchase items blithely, without thinking about where the products have come from, what the companies behind those products are like when it comes to ethical practices, pesticide use, toxic ingredients and so on. The average cannabis consumer needs to be aware of where his or her dollars are going, especially in […]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently admitted that neonicotinoids – a class of insecticides – can harm honeybees when used on cotton and citrus, according to an environmental risk assessment study. It’s no secret that bees are essential to the food supply. They are responsible for 80 percent of pollination, which is necessary for plant […]

After decades of denial, the Department of Veteran Affairs finally acknowledged that Monsanto’s Agent Orange, a herbicide sprayed across Vietnam during the war, was responsible for the health ailments of over 2,100 Air Force servicemen. Federal officials have agreed to release over $45 million in disability benefits to Air Force active duty personnel and reservists […]

There’s a picture of sizzling bacon, replete with it’s fat and salty substance introducing a recent Reuter’s investigative report on the International Agency on Cancer Research (IARC). The caption underneath the picture (equating IARC statements about carcinogens in processed meat to what IARC says about meat in general) seems to be as shady as the rest of […]

Arsenic-containing well water may be to blame for increased rates of bladder cancer in New England, according to a new study published by the National Cancer Institute on Monday. Bladder cancer is 20 percent higher in populations residing in New Hampshire, Main, and Vermont, where a significant portion of the population depends on private wells. […]

The chemical train of death and destruction just got another engine. Why should we be surprised? The folks at the EPA don’t give two hoots about the soil or your children’s insides. They are more concerned with keeping their job as revolving door bureaucrats and doing the bidding of their masters. I wonder when they will […]

The Environmental Protection Agency –  just typing that name feels incongruent –  proclaimed that we should keep our eyes on two harmful pesticides, plus one. The Guardian reports: “Almost all of the 1,700 most endangered plants and animals in the US are likely to be harmed by two widely used pesticides… Malathion, an insecticide registered for use in […]

It is up to buyers to be very careful where their pot comes from and to check if growers have had their products tested for potency and pesticides. Marijuana is still an illegal schedule 1 drug in the U.S., and therefore official testing of marijuana for dangerous pesticides is in its infancy, even in states […]

Marijuana consumers cannot assume that any and all marijuana purchased is pure and organic. Like many plants grown commercially, marijuana plants are subject to synthetic fertilizers and chemical pesticides more often than not. Like any other product on the market, one needs to ask questions about the origins of the plants, and what herbicides or […]

As the recent #DonutGate scandal proves, you don’t have to do much to get the suffix “-gate” appended to it. In this case, all it took was having the singer/actress Ariana Grande lick a donut while simultaneously blurting out, “I hate America.” In the Land of the Free, eating donuts is held in high regard, […]