The pot leaf made a pleasing snap as I grabbed it by its stem and ripped it off a cannabis plant. I threw that leaf in my bag and grabbed another, then another, then another. I was going to need a lot of leaves.
The pot plant I was pulling leaves off of was more than 12 feet tall and full of plump flowers reaching toward the sky. But I wasn’t after those nuggets. What I was making required only the leaves, and a lot of them. After filling the paper bag, I returned home and started pushing the fan-like leaves through a juicer.
The machine jumped and jerked, but eventually out came a stream of deep-green juice that was so thick and viscous, it looked oily and almost not potable. This is the juice of the pot plant, and it might be the next big thing in medical pot. Its effectiveness is still being researched, but there’s one thing we know: There’s no way it will get you high.
