The 4/20 “holiday” is right around the corner, and for those who celebrate it as a “High Holy Day,” bless your hearts. We can use an uptick in sales at dispensaries, so stock up and get down, responsibly. Not to be Donald Downer, but as always, please mind your intake of edibles. I’ve written here […]
Josh Jardine
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CBD Buzz
There’s been a great deal in the news about CBD recently, so this week, we’re focusing on the cannabinoid everyone’s talking about. Its uber-rare that I type the words “Mitch McConnell did the right thing today,” because he almost never does, but here we are. The U.S. Senate majority leader and senator from Kentucky announced […]
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Who Hates Weed? These peeps
It’s no surprise that the vast majority of my interactions, be they electronic or IRL, involve people, businesses and organizations that are “pro-cannabis.” Many are employed in the cannabis industry, both recreational and medical, and have a financial interest as business owners, investors or employees—or they’re medical patients finding relief from a number of physical […]
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Leafly, the Book
Yes, a real-life book, made from actual tree pulp Leafly is an app and website that, along with Weedmaps, is fairly well known to consumers of cannabis, be it medical or recreational. It’s great for finding dispensaries nearest to your GPS location, and can show you the menus, prices and customer reviews of individual dispensaries […]
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Tokin’ Women: A shout-out to women in cannabis
March is Women’s History Month, or as Presidente Cheetolini might ask, “The who what now? Really? A whole month, huh?” Women’s contributions to cannabis, past and present, are—brace yourself—often overlooked, ignored or forgotten. And as this is a plant that 99.5 percent of us will actively seek out in its female form, that’s not acceptable. […]
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Weed Reads
What to read before—and after—you get high
HELLO THERE! Do you enjoy reading? How about reading about cannabis? I ask because if you’re reading this column (or if it’s being read to you by a service monkey using typing-to-speech-recognition software), it seems like you might enjoy some books on cannabis. I certainly hope so, because this week’s column is about four of […]
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Shatter and Live Resin
Two companies colab on a sun-grown product produced in Central Oregon
Truth: I’m primarily a flower guy, with the occasional foray into resin and old school hash. This isn’t to say I’m anti-hydrocarbon-based extracts, but I don’t dab on the daily, or even weekly. But if I did, I would include the product line of concentrates from the forward-looking folks at Bend-based Lunchbox Alchemy. Having gained […]
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Black History. In March!
A primer on cannabis-related injustice in communities of color
We didn’t forget about Black History Month this February. It’s just that we don’t necessarily think black history should be relegated to a single month. With that, who better to examine the centuries-long relationship between black people and cannabis than a white dude? Huh? Right? Wait, come back. … According to the 2014 paper published […]
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Cannabis Summit Inhales Oregon’s Plethora of Pot
On Feb. 2, the U.S. Attorney for Oregon, Billy “Stop calling me Lando” Williams held a “Marijuana Summit” and invited Gov. Kate Brown, law enforcement, the Internal Revenue Service, regulatory agencies and industry professionals to attend. (The press wasn’t allowed, because fake news, or democracy thrives in darkness, or something.) Major props to Williams for […]
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High and Lonesome
Will smoking weed find you a partner?
It’s fairly subtle, so you may not have noticed, but this week was Valentine’s Day! A “holiday” of realistic expectations and endless possibilities for bitter self-recrimination about love lost. Be it canna-infused chocolates or lubes (note: don’t mix those up), cannabis plays a growing role in industries built around love in its many forms. But […]
