In the realm of topicals, one getting broad thumbs-ups. For someone who has lived the life that I have “lived,” I’m amazed to the degree that it’s a pain-free existence. (Physical pain only—you don’t want to know about the rest.) As such, this doesn’t make me a great candidate for using, and reporting on, topical […]
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Give Thanks for the Danks
A year to celebrate cannabis, when everything else seems to be falling apart.
As 2017 draws to a close, we look back with fondness upon a year filled with joy, laughter and good times, with sharing, love and—ha ha! No, not really. 2017 was a deranged fever nightmare of unheralded poisonous despair, with heartbreaking loss and division. Many people, places and things are under attack from the horror-show […]
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At the Emerald Cup, the industry brings its sparkle
“You wanna hit this?” “This” was a super sizer bomber: a blunt-sized joint with a line of rosin running through, turbo charged with the addition of some kief. I stared through the thick haze of smoke and thought about the question for an uncharacteristically long period. It wasn’t that I was too high, rather that […]
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Cannabis at Xmas: A primer on coping
It’s the holiday season, and for many of us, it means time with family—and I don’t mean the family you choose I mean the ones who may hit you up for a spare organ at some point because you’re a genetic match. Those people. Yeah. The time spent with them can make it a challenge […]
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A Place to Hang Out and Consume
Cannabis Clubs, it’s a thing—in Portland.
I‘ve written about the frustrating hypocrisy of living in a state with a ravenous appetite for the tax and licensing revenue brought in by the production and sale of cannabis, but with repressive and absurd rules about where people are allowed to consume once they have made their purchase, and paid a hefty 20+ percent […]
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Gene Sequencing for Cannabis
Helping you consume the right strain of OG Kush, or whatever other strain you desire. Prior to cannabis legalization, you rolled the dice with every purchase from an “Agricultural Products Broker,” AKA, your weed dealer. Many a transaction had me asking if there was “any more of that lime green stuff from last week” or […]
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An Alt CBD
Citrus and evergreen bark do a CBD product make
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 […]
