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Talking to Your Parents About Marijuana – A Guide

Weed and your parents. Oh, how the times have changed! Used to be, any weed-related talk between parents and offspring was likely cautionary. Admonitions and pleading, possibly threats. In the years since, widespread legalization and more general recognition of weed as a medicine have transformed the conversation entirely. And it’s not only the tone that’s […]

Meditation & Yoga With Cannabis

Meditation and yoga are enjoying increasing popularity and acceptance these days. While some folks still cast a wary eye? Most—including some public institutions—are finding that both yoga and meditation can work wonders for unquiet minds and tired bodies. Because of this newfound acceptance, it’s easy to mistake yoga and meditation for—well, for something new. But […]

Ancient Cannabis, How Old is Weed?

Have you ever taken a moment to contemplate just how old weed really is? No, no, not the baggy you stuffed into your parka and promptly forgot about who knows how many years ago. Cannabis. Cannabis sativa. Weed as a plant, as a species, and as a tool in human cultures. While it may seem […]

Is Cannabis Performance Enhancing?

We’ve seen a lot of talk on this subject in the news this last little while. Athletes suspended, debate raging. Some adamant that using weed is a cheat on a par with steroids, others arguing the opposite, and some saying maybe, but so what? Let’s have a look at the argument, the science, and the […]

Are Hops & Weed Related?

If you’re a beer connoisseur who also enjoys a nice, dank weed (or vice-versa)? You may have noticed that the two things seem somehow linked in your head. A good nose full may trigger some of the same feelings or create the same vibe inside. Is this coincidence, or is there a connection between your […]

Is Weed a Psychedelic?

Psychedelics. While they’re as old as human history, they burst into social consciousness as a “thing” back in the 1950s and 1960s. Usually categorized as separate from cannabis, a growing number of people are grouping them all together as consciousness-raising, hallucinogenic substances. Let’s have a look at what makes a drug a psychedelic, what cannabis […]

How to Clean a Bong Like a Pro

When it comes to marijuana, the term “dank” is one that usually brings a smile to our faces. Dank, danker, the dankest of dank. Everyone knows dank weed is prime weed. But when the subject is your bong or vaporizer rather than your bud? Dank is not where you want to be. Dank is unpleasant, […]

Live Rosin vs Live Resin: What’s the Difference?

Okay, so those are the nuts and bolts of the thing. For our purposes, we’ll be concentrating on the end products after live extraction. But what does that mean for you? What’s the difference, in terms of flavor, potency, and all-around user experience? Live Resin Live resin is extracted using solvents, which are then evaporated […]

Complete Guide to Microdosing Marijuana

When most people think of THC, they think of party time. Epic highs, stratospheric creative peaks, hilarious hijinks, or maybe just a face full of chips and a head full of amazing ideas. None of these are bad things, all of them are fun effects of THC. But they’re not all THC has to offer. […]

Medical Marijuana for Veterans in Arizona

Medical Marijuana. Probably not the first thing to come to mind when considering treatment for pain, anxiety, and PTSD in veterans. Because of decades of draconian federal laws concerning marijuana, patients, including veterans, have been denied effective, compassionate care. That is no longer the case. Even though marijuana remains illegal at the federal level? States […]

The Flower Shop’s 2022 Cannabis Holiday Gift Guide

Oh, the times, they have a-CHANGED! Back in the dark days of pre-legalization, giving the gift of weed involved wadded up baggies and breaking the law. No more! In these heady days of legal cannabis, higher- r level gift-giving? Is as easy as hitting The Flower Shop’s fabulous site and choosing the very best for […]

What is Kief?

In one sentence? Kief (sometimes known as “keef”) is the pinnacle, it’s cannabis royalty, it’s the crème de la crème of the cannabis plant. Talk about telling you nothing and everything at the same time! Luckily, we have more than one sentence to work with here. So, let’s dive as deep and ecstatically as we […]

Why Does Weed Give You the Munchies?

Munchies. We’ve all laughed about them, whether our own or someone else’s hilarious quest for face food. You could call it the bane of stoners, but sometimes it feels like the second-best part of being high. The high is, of course, the very best part. Pizza, chips, Oreos, or those to DIE for deep-fried chimichangas […]

What To Know About Using Already Vaped Bud (AVB)

Vaping weed has gone from “never heard of it” to pretty wildly popular in a fairly short stretch. While many folks use vape cartridges with concentrate, vaping flower is a popular and highly rewarding way of going about things. But when you finish vaping flower, there’s that big pile of vaped weed destined for the […]

Complete Guide to Cannabis Concentrates

Concentrates. If you leapt into the weed scene back in the early days? The broad array of available product today might have your head spinning. Other than hash, there wasn’t a whole lot of concentrating going on. You said “cannabis,” and everyone knew you meant the leafy, smokable green stuff. In the years since, we’ve […]

Why Replacing Alcohol With Cannabis Might Be Your Best Bet

For a long, long time, alcohol and marijuana were placed in the same mental space, public opinion-wise. Weed, booze, it was all the same—at least to folks on the outside. Those of us on the inside knew there was one heck of a difference. As time has passed and that “demon weed” reputation has fallen […]

Beginners Guide to the Endocannabinoid System

Weed is pretty easy. Use is pretty intuitive, effects—short term and long—are fairly innocuous. Understanding weed? Is as simple or as complicated as you want to make it. Some folks don’t want to know the details, they just want a nice high. And there’s not a thing wrong with that. Others? They want to pry […]

Everything You Need to Know About The Entourage Effect

If you ask your average Joe on the street, he might tell you the active ingredient in marijuana is THC. Period, end of story. A few Joes might mention CBD. Turns out, though, that our favorite weed offers up a lot more than just those two (marvelous) things. And the long list of chemical components […]

Understanding Cannabis Tolerance

We’ve all had that friend. You know the one—smokes everyone under the table and still seems barely affected by the dankest of weed? They smoke on the daily, but it takes more and more for them to get even the slightest buzz? While it may seem a cool brag (duuuude, I can smoke four bowls […]

Origins of Marijuana Slang

Cannabis sativa. An annual, leafy, flowering plant that originated in Eastern Asia. Known since the beginning of recorded history (and likely well before that), it was first classified by Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus in 1753. Yawwwn. You probably know this plant by a different name. Or five. There’s an old adage—the more names a society […]

Ten Celebrities Who’ve Gone on Record (Smoking Cannabis)

Cannabis and celebrity have a long and tumultuous history. In the past? Well, weed might make a performer’s reputation OR land them in jail. Often, the determining factors were politics, popularity, and maybe sheer luck. While known connoisseur Sammy Davis Jr. mingled at Nixon’s Whitehouse, other, less politically connected stars were having tour buses raided. […]

Upgrade Your Morning Cereal with Cannabis Milk

It’s no secret that weed and food have long been fast friends. But weed as food? Used to be, most of us thought “edible weed” meant sprinkling green leaf on a pan of brownies. Never did get us high, and we never did figure out why. Until fairly recently. Growing weed acceptance (and […]

Hemp-Fed Cows: Can Milk Get You High?

You’d think it’d be a bit of a no-brainer. We have all these hemp byproducts from production over here, and we have all these cows over there. If only it were that easy. Is there great potential? Oh, absolutely! Cows and sheep? Love hemp! And that love affair appears to be good for them. Hemp […]

Angry While High: Can Weed Fuel Anger Issues

Weed has a reputation. Not a bad one, necessarily, but one of mellow, calm, ditz, creativity and giggles. Sometimes even munchies and sleepiness. One thing we often hear is that, unlike booze, weed doesn’t make you angry. The common belief is that weed diffuses rather than sparks aggressive feelings. Is that really always the […]

Top Weed Strains To Heighten Gamer Performance

Gaming and weed, could there be a better combination? Like peanut butter and jelly, it’s hard to believe they haven’t always been joined at the hip—and they almost have! Old school gamers were getting high while on their DOS-based games back in the ‘80s. They were likely stoned while playing Pong back in the […]

The Best Weed for Productivity

Weed and productivity. Many folks used to believe that the two were mutually exclusive. Thankfully, we’ve seen a revolution in the world of cannabis—not only in our understanding of how weed works but also in the development of myriad strains bred to give us specific effects. Today, we will look at how weed can […]

Does Weed Help With PMS Relief?

Before the 1980s, most medical professionals would roll their eyes and assume period-having people complaining of anxiety, irritability, bloating, pain, fatigue, and mood swings at “that time of the month” were whiners. Or worse, “hysterical.” The effects of Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) on our bodies and minds were often the butt of jokes. Many […]

The Benefits of Smoking Marijuana

Weed’s a fantastic thing. It’s not a “one-size-fits-all” substance but an “enough-variety-to-serve-all-needs” deal. Different strains, doses, and methods of enjoyment bring potentially different benefits. No matter what your wants may be, weed has a way of easing the journey. While heading down to The Flower Shop for a sit-down with one of our Wellness […]

The Best Strain for Inflammation and Pain

Ah, youth! Do you remember back in our heady twenties, when we smoked weed because it was fun? When cannabis consumption meant a small puff, a little munch, and laughing at a good movie or splashing in the pool? The journey has taken many of us from that clear, level road to the rocky, […]

Your Guide to the Best Weed Strains

Weed is a funny thing. To hear some people talk, you’d think it was a monolith, a single entity with a lone, unvarying set of physical and mental effects. But if we know anything about cannabis, different strains and personalities can combine to produce wildly different highs. For example, the weed you want […]

Does Marijuana Dehydrate You?

We’ve all been there. High as a kite, majorly munch-mouthed, eyes raw and itchy, and so danged dry in the pie hole that we’re whistling dust. Maybe a little dizzy, perhaps a titch light-headed, we reach for the nearest beverage, looking to quench what we perceive as thirst. But is it thirst? […]

How to Test Marijuana Potency at Home

We’ve all had it happen. You get home with your weedy new treat, excited at the prospect of a solid, happy trip, only to find yourself untouched by the product. Or, the opposite happens. The mellow little bump you’re expecting winds up being a freight train of stoned-ness, leaving you cross-legged on the deck […]

Does Weed Affect Your Period?

There’s a fair bit of talk about how cannabis use can help us manage menstrual cycle pain. However, symptom relief isn’t the only matter to be considered when it comes to how weed may affect the menstrual cycle. Chief amongst commonly expressed concerns? Marijuana’s reputed effects on the menstrual cycle and the possibility of changes […]

Weed and Menstrual Cramps: Relieve Your Period Pain

Dealing with “that time of the month” means one very uncomfortable, painful time for many women: dealing with menstrual cramps. Period cramps look different for everyone. Some females experience intense throbbing in the lower belly, while others experience acute aches in their lumbar region. Sometimes, it can be a doubled-over, squeezing pain that is entirely […]

How to Store Cannabis Seeds

Imagine you live in a place where growing cannabis at home for personal use is A-okay with TPTB. How would that be? Well, for a growing number of Americans (no pun intended), that place and time is not some fantastical dream in a nebulous future. It is right here, right now. Now, we’re not about […]

Why Do My Armpits Smell Like Weed?

So, maybe you’re lucky. Perhaps you’ve climbed off that treadmill or come home from that camping trip with your love and NOT put off a unique aroma that’s danker than the dankest of weeds. Is this you? Are you’re sweeter than roses and as fresh as the morning dew? Well, you’ll still want to read […]

The Best Dispensary in Phoenix

Phoenix: there’s no other place like it. We have it all here—endless sunshine, world-class recreation, breathtaking desert views, and the best dispensary in Phoenix. Yep. The BEST. That may seem like a bold claim, but it’s the honest truth. We’re here to tell you precisely why you need look no further than The […]

The Guide to Smoking Weed on Your Period

Since there have been mammals, there’s been menstruation. It’s normal, natural, and a vital part of perpetuating us as a species. Sadly, it’s become such a taboo subject that period-havers sometimes struggle to find information about periods and how to make them more bearable. Luckily, we’re all about taboo-smashing and straight-talking here at […]

The Truth About Marijuana and Anxiety

Anxiety and weed. Weed and anxiety. There’s been a lot of talk for a long time, and not a lot of it seems particularly definitive. Yes, many claim that marijuana is a miracle cure for anxiety and PTSD. However, some conflicting claims pin heightened anxiety on cannabis use. So, which is it? Does weed […]

How to Roll a Blunt or Joint Perfectly

We all remember that one person, don’t we? The person with impossibly nimble fingers. How they’d shake weed into paper, whisper the magic words, and presto-chango! The perfect roll! Our sad little pinners and exploding loose boys couldn’t begin to compare. Well, it’s time to nudge Mr. Wowser McMagicfingers aside. We’re going to teach you […]

Weed Wisdom: The Difference Between Indica, Sativa, & Hybrid

Whether you’re new to the wonderful world of weed, an old hand back on the scene, or anywhere in-between, treating yourself to cannabis these days is easy-peasy! As more and more states embrace medical and recreational use, your options are improving by the day. And as they improve, you have choices to make. The most […]

Unlock Your Imagination with the Best Weed for Creativity

Weed has a reputation for being a gaping, sofa-shaped hole that sucks in motivation and spits zombification back out. An energy sink that leaves you glued to the TV with your hand in the snack bowl. While that sort of body-slam high can be entertaining, it’s an often-inaccurate assessment painting all strains with the same […]

Is Marijuana a Stimulant or a Depressant?

Is weed a stimulant? Is weed a depressant? There’s a lot of talk about how cannabis is classified. Opinions vary depending on who you ask and their personal experience. However, it’s an important question if you’re looking for specific mind and body effects. Let’s dive in and see what we can find out! […]

Growing Pains: Does Weed Stunt Your Growth?

Description: Is it true – does weed stunt your growth? See what the studies have shown regarding the link between early marijuana use and growth. “Don’t smoke, you’ll stunt your growth!” We’ve all heard that age-old apocryphal warning, delivered at the end of a crooked finger and repeated so many times it must […]

Pipe Dreams: How to Use a Weed Pipe

If you’re like most folks, your first experience with smoking marijuana involved papers, a roach clip, and picking weed off your lips. For some, joints are still the preferred method of indulging. But many of us venture beyond rolling and into the wonderful world of smoking weed out of a pipe. Pipes come in a […]

Buying Weed for the First Time: A Quick Dispensary Guide

Let’s get it out in the open: Legally buying weed for the first time feels weird at first. We never thought the day would come when the reefer madness crowd would finally give way to the manifold voices of reason. Had anyone even suggested legalizing weed, we’d have thought they were high! But times change […]

Expungement in Arizona

Arizona’s overwhelming approval of Prop 207 in AZ in November 2020 opened the doors to new economic opportunities for businesses in the Grand Canyon state. But Prop 207 doesn’t just affect businesses. It legally provides cannabis users an opportunity to use cannabis flower and related products, including vapes, concentrates, tinctures, and edibles. More importantly, […]

Adults, Youth, Cannabis & Brain Structure

There’s some reefer madness going on when it comes to misinformation about the effects of weed on teens. For decades many concerned adults have wondered: Is smoking weed at a young age harmful? Do THC effects on the brain cause addiction? At The Flower Shop, we believe in providing accurate information about cannabis and our […]

Smoking Safely in AZ Heat

Is summer in Arizona the best time to smoke weed? Yes! Well, it’s honestly great all year round. But did you know that baking under the summer sun can keep you from totally baking under the summer sun? See how smoking in summer can help you chill out in more ways than one, plus […]

Discover CBD and All of Its Benefits

Hemp didn’t always get a bad rap. Herbalists have long used it to promote wellness. Farmers once grew it as a source of fiber to make rope and cloth. However, in the 20th century, politics got in the way. Governments cracked down on everything cannabis-related, and we lacked the science to back up just […]