“D o you like cookies”? I ask. “Well,” you answer coyly, “I’m trying to be “good” this month and avoid gluten. Plus, I just restarted my vegan diet, yet again, but I just love butter so much, I’m so bad, tee-hee….” Well, golly, TMI Tammy, that’s swell and all, and, you know, gluten-free kudos. But […]
B y most any standards, I would be considered a Heathen. The wormhole for word nerds, dictionary.com, defines Heathen thusly: Noun, plural heathens, heathen 1) (in historical contexts) an individual of a people that do not acknowledge the God of the Bible; a person who is neither a Jew, Christian, nor Musum; a pagan. The […]
Yeah, yeah, we get it—you came for the eclipse… but it doesn’t hurt that Oregon happens to have great beer and legal weed, too. While the cannabis community will be happy to indoctrinate you and make you an evangelist for their special brand of flower/extract/dabs/etc., check this guide first, to help you learn a little […]
A recent column, “Scenarios for Cannabis under Trump,” a topic which has been explored by my far smarter canna-lawyer colleagues, has already grown outdated. That’s because the cannabis policy undertaken by Attorney General Klu Klux Keebler is perfectly in line with the various national “policies” set forth by Fake Tan Hitler. Both are unhinged, unpredictable, […]
I f you are anything like me (and by all that is holy, please let that not be the case) you’ve probably said to yourself many times: “Sure, I enjoy vaping, but, by God, I enjoy my bong, too. Won’t someone think of my needs, the vape- friendly bong lover?” Dear reader, your voice has […]
O regon offers an amazing array of three things: coffee, cannabis and a sense of smugness that is palatable when bikes, beards or microbrews are being discussed. (“It’s called “Fixed Gear Red Whisker Ale,” and it’s the best beer ever made by anyone, anywhere.”) I don’t enjoy biking, rarely drink, and as I can only […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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