The TryCannabis Cannabis Education Network publishes ~3,600 pages of cannabis-policy, harm-reduction, and state-law reporting across 85 sites. Every page is researched, written, fact-checked, and reviewed by a small in-house editorial team operating under shared standards: cited primary sources only, named officials only, no advocacy framing, evidence badges where the underlying research is mixed.

This page lists the editors responsible for that work. Editorial bylines on this network are house bylines — the same convention used at many trade and policy publications — with each editor leading a defined content domain. Bylines are stable across pages within a domain so readers can trace voice and accountability over time.

How the Team Is Organized

Editorial responsibility is split across three domains. Each editor has final review authority within their domain; the Managing Editor has cross-domain authority over the editorial calendar, fact-checking standards, and publication decisions.

Maya R. Hellman

Senior Editor — Health & Pharmacology

Maya leads the network’s coverage of medical-cannabis programs, drug-interaction reporting, dosing best practices, the cannabinoid-science pages on CannaScience.org, and the senior-health content on CannabisForSeniors.org. Every health-or-safety claim crosses Maya’s desk before publication and is checked against current peer-reviewed literature, FDA labeling, and the NASEM 2017 evidence framework. Particular focus areas: CYP450 drug interactions, cannabis-warfarin reporting, dose-response in older adults, and cannabis-use-disorder evidence on CannabisDependence.org.

Eliana Marsh

Senior Editor — Law & Policy

Eliana covers state-by-state cannabis statutes, ballot-initiative analysis, court-case tracking, federal-policy reporting, and the cross-border guides across all 50 state sites. She maintains the per-state legal-status summaries against each state’s legislative-session activity (bill numbers, sponsors, vote tallies, sine-die outcomes), reviews the racial-disparity sections against ACLU primary data, and is responsible for accuracy on every page that names a sitting governor, attorney general, prosecutor, or court ruling. Particular focus areas: Compassionate-Care-Act-style medical bills, hemp-derived-cannabinoid regulation, interstate-interdiction enforcement, and tribal cannabis sovereignty.

Ronan Hayes

Managing Editor

Ronan oversees the editorial calendar across the 85-site network, coordinates research priorities with state-level reporting, and maintains the network’s cited-source-only standards. He has final publication authority on every page and is responsible for cross-domain consistency: ensuring the cannabis-pharmacology coverage Maya leads, the law-and-policy coverage Eliana leads, and the cities, hemp, and culture coverage stay coherent across sites. Particular focus areas: city-level coverage, network site architecture, the Cannabis Education Network’s editorial standards, and the freshness-review schedule that keeps every page’s “last verified” date current.

How Pages Are Reviewed

Every published page goes through a defined review chain before going live and on a recurring quarterly cycle thereafter:

Research draft — the assigned editor for the content domain compiles a sourced draft from primary documents (legislation, court rulings, agency reports, peer-reviewed studies, government statistics).
Domain review — the Senior Editor for the relevant domain (Health & Pharmacology or Law & Policy) reviews factual claims against the cited primary sources, flags any anecdotal or under-sourced material, and signs off on the draft.
Managing-editor review — the Managing Editor reviews for cross-domain consistency, voice, accessibility, and adherence to the no-advocacy / no-product-sales editorial standards.
Publication — the page is timestamped (article:published_time + article:modified_time meta tags), the reviewing editor’s byline is recorded in the per-site image-credits.md and review log, and the page is added to the freshness-review schedule.
Quarterly freshness review — every page is re-checked against current law, current officeholders, and current research at least once per quarter. The lastReviewed JSON-LD field reflects the most recent review date.

Disclosure

Editorial bylines on this network are house bylines — a long-standing convention in trade, policy, and reference publications where staff write under stable editorial identities tied to a content domain. The editors named on this page are the team responsible for the network’s research, writing, and review work; they operate under our published Editorial Standards and the principles laid out in Our Mission.

The TryCannabis Cannabis Education Network is independently owned, takes no advertising, sells no products, accepts no dispensary affiliations, and earns no revenue from any cannabis operator. The editorial team has no financial conflict of interest with any cannabis brand, retailer, manufacturer, or political organization mentioned on this network.

Contact the Editorial Team

Reader corrections, source-update requests, and editorial feedback go through the network contact form. We log every correction and update the relevant page’s article:modified_time + lastReviewed when a fix is published.