As a virtual shut-in with borderline hoarding tendencies (although, when tubs of stray power and USB cords and 15-year-old copies of High Times become coin of the realm, who will look foolish THEN?) I enjoy mail, telling me out the outside world and its cannabis concerns and curiosities. To that end, here are the answers […]
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Race Bias and Words Matter
If you say it wasn’t racial When they shot him in his tracks Well I guess that means that you ain’t black It means that you ain’t black — Drive By Truckers “What It Means” We recently passed a terribly sad one-year anniversary July 6, and I’ve been struggling to frame the tragedy properly. It […]
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Sin City Gets Even Sinnier
Recreational cannabis comes to Nevada
On July 1, Nevada joined the “cool cannabis kids” club when it became the 5th state to offer legalized adult use cannabis, or in less wonky terminology, recreational cannabis. (Mandatory cannabis columnist disclaimer: Kids, you can be cool without cannabis, too! It’s rare, but still possible.) A total of 44 dispensaries were allowed to begin […]
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Budtender Bootcamp
It’s not easy for a budtender out there
You’re expected to know a dizzying amount of details about the products your dispensary carries: the lineage of the strains, the terpene levels and effects, the best options for individual conditions and more—and that’s just for the flower. There’s some real science to all this, and for a myriad of reasons, many dispensaries do not […]
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A butter churn for the cannabis set
Think making ganja butter has to be a smelly, messy job? Our weed reviewer trys out a device that promises to do away with those annoyances. I’ve been making cannabis-infused edibles for friends and patients for 25 years, and it’s always brought me great happiness to hear that they are enjoyed for pleasure and relief […]
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Opposing Views
A column on recent Oregon legislative bills has many on the defensive
Two weeks ago I wrote a column about two Oregon legislative bills, one that had just been signed into law, the other was imminent in passage. I looked at what these bills might mean for the medical and recreational-use communities, and my take on the good and bad in both. A very small portion of […]
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Fair Trade Fatties
I’m adamant that the cannabis I consume is organic. Which, thanks to stringent testing requirements in Oregon for cannabis sold in dispensaries, is far easier to verify than it’s ever been. But, that’s really only one part of the complex equation about supporting what you believe in when you buy your weed. Simply because a […]
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The Good and the Bad in Pot Bills in Salem
My columns with the fewest number of “likes” are ones that deal with cannabis policy
However, the least sexy/funny topics—such as bills pertaining to how we produce, sell and consume cannabis in Oregon—are of far greater importance than my take on the new OG Purple Ghost Rider Cookie Kush. (“It tasted of pot, and I felt high.”) So let’s talk about two bills: SB1057, which just became law, and HB2198, […]
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Living with a Cannabis Columnist
Or life as a canna-widow… kind of.
She’s baaaack! We like our cannabis columnist’s girlfriend’s writing so much that we had to bring you another one this week. Enjoy, canna-lovelies! As my boyfriend recovers from his newest self-designed cannabis challenge, AKA “How Many Marijuana Gummies Can I Fit in My Mouth at One Time?” (Answer: 28, and also, why babe? Why?), I’ve […]
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Can You Spot the Fake Review?
You’ve heard of fake news. But what about fake reviews? Test your cannabis knowledge here
As I’ve mentioned in previous columns, I receive a fairly large number of items for review. And no, not all of them are cannabis products. (Begging the question, what the HELL, Oregon cannabis community?) So this week, we are going to knock out reviews for a bevy of items, with the understanding that one of […]