I’m hearing a variation of a complaint/question with increasingly frequency, in both my personal and professional life. (Kidding. I have no personal life.) “I used to get high back in high school/college, and it was great, I was giggly/creative/happy/had a great time with my friends or by myself. Then I stopped and returned to it/kept […]
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Think of the Children!
I was planning to do a column regarding our batshit-crazy, Mad Hater Attorney General and his racist, prohibitionist rescinding of the Cole Memorandum and its tenuous protections. That would have been a fun read, and I would have been the only one to have thoughts on the matter! But that story’s just starting, so while […]
Give Thanks for the Danks
As 2017 draws to a close, we look back with fondness upon a year filled with joy, laughter and good times, with sharing, love andโha 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 […]
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 […]
Cannabis at Xmas: A primer on coping
It’s the holiday season, and for many of us, it means time with familyโand 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 […]
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 […]
A Quest to Go Solvent Free
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 […]
A Book Ripe for The Trash Bin: A Review of Weed, Inc.
I receive books to review on the regularโmostly 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. […]
Jeff Sessions Is Going To Hell
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, […]
Can You Spot the Fake Review?
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 […]

