David Hodes

David Hodes

David Hodes has written for many cannabis publications, and organized or moderated sessions at national and international cannabis trade shows. He was voted the 2018 Journalist of the Year by Americans for Safe Access, the world’s largest medical cannabis advocacy organization.

Articles by David Hodes

With the cannabis industry expanding, David Hodes looks into two areas of safety concerns with cannabis processing, which include new ways to understand health issues of cannabis workers and new consumer safety alerts about cannabis products with higher THC percentages.

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For years, Congress and various veterans' advocates have been working to get Veterans Affairs to drop the obstacles blocking medical cannabis use for veterans. Now real progress is at hand and we speak with Congressman Earl Blumenauer on the work he’s been doing as well as updates on the current state of legislation related to veteran access to medical cannabis.

Here, we take a look at the top issues related to cannabis cultivation: what top environmental problems still face the cannabis industry, how to reduce emissions in grow facilities, the different effects of various strains on carbon emissions, and how the government is finally helping the industry do a deeper dive into understanding these issues.