CBD is great. A cannabinoid that doesn’t get you high (and actually levels off or reduces THC’s effects when introduced together), but has all sorts of awesome benefits like treating epilepsy, pain, nausea, inflammation, insomnia and even cancer. I’m pro-CBD. Unlike cannabis, I have yet to meet a single CBD prohibitionist, waving “CBDon’t!” signs at […]
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A Quest to Go Solvent Free
One man’s canna-mission
I frequently write about my fondness for solvent-free concentrates, and did so in my recent series covering my trip to California to check out the adult use cannabis program rollout in January. Selecting a concentrate or extract is already overwhelming, and sometimes you aren’t getting the best advice. I wrote of a budtender at a […]
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A Book Ripe for The Trash Bin: A Review of Weed, Inc.
Weed, Inc.
I receive books to review on the regular—mostly of the “cultivation/cooking with” variety. Rarely do I receive any that can charitably be deemed “prohibitionist” literature for review consideration, as its producers must surely recognize the chance of success of converting me is on par with bringing Westboro Baptist signup sheets to a gay pride parade. […]
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Nectar of the Gods
I remember the first time someone gave me cannabis tincture. “Put this under your tongue” they said, dosing a couple droppers full of “Green Dragon” in my mouth. I had to resist spitting it out, as it reeked of Everclear and trim, and to quote Ralph Wiggum from “The Simpsons,” “It tastes like burning!” In […]
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To Live and Get High in L.A.
The California vs Oregon Weed Wars Continue. Sorta.
T he doctor who issued my California medical marijuana card by phone three days prior told me this might happen. “San Francisco dispensaries are way more liberal about letting cardholders without Cali IDs in than L.A. dispensaries, but you can use delivery services there.” Way less liberal was a great way to describe the security […]
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Ganj in the Golden State
I f you ask someone in Oregon what they think about California, a common answer is, “I want them to stop moving here, driving up real estate prices and clogging up my commute.” Unless they are from California, in which case the response involves, “how much it rains up here, unlike California.” Ask someone what […]
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Quick Hits: Cool Cannabis Products
X marks the (s)pot
B aked Smar+ has a great idea, and it would have saved friends of mine numerous hours, or at times, days, of unintended and undesired “Super Surprised Stoned Sessions.” Those sessions were brought on by people inadvertently consuming edibles made with cannabis, namely my extra strong cookies. Even though they were always placed in a […]
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Pass the Pet Peeves
Opinions are like…you know what. And even this cannabis columnist has one. Or two.
W hen I’m not writing this weekly “weed comedy” column, I’m working in numerous other aspects of the cannabis industry. It’s a great way to spend long hours making a shocking, depression-inducing (small) amount of money, so I strongly encourage all the children reading this to stay in school. And to stop reading this. While […]
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Super Nova
A machine to do your decarbing dirty work
W hat if I could tell you about a newly available machine that makes your weed and trim stronger? And it’s not complicated; if you can press a button, you can make it work. If you can’t press a button, well, increasing the potency of your cannabis is the least of your concerns, my friend. […]
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Drama at the Cannabis Congress
“P olitics make strange bedfellows” is a well known quote by the American essayist and author Charles Dudley Warner. It’s a succinct way to say that you will work with someone you find horrific if it means it is politically valuable to do so. For decades, the cannabis industry was solely in the “unregulated marketplace” […]
