Madison Troyer

Cannabis is (nearly) as old as time.  Fossil records have determined that the plant sprang up sometime in the middle of the Oligocene epoch, 34-23 million years ago, on the Tibetan Plateau, a region that is now home to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. One or more Neolithic groups likely domesticated it, and it traveled throughout Asia…

On June 5, 1981, the US Centers for Disease Control published an article titled “Pneumocystis Pneumonia– Los Angeles” that reported on five cases of a rare lung infection in previously healthy, young, gay men in Los Angeles. The story revealed that along with this rare lung condition, the men had other uncommon infections, implying that…

According to a report by Science Direct, 55% of people have experienced one or more lucid dreams in their lifetime. A meta-analysis of 50 years of research on lucid dreaming spanning from 1966 to 2016 finds that 23% of people experience lucid dreams at least once a month.  A lucid dream is one in which…