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Weed Cash

As marijuana tax receipts roll in, city leaders look to direct dollars toward street maintenance and police

Marijuana tax receipts statewide have been steadily declining since Novemberโ€”but still, recent reports from the Oregon Department of Revenue indicate the state has already brought in $65.4 million in tax dollars from legal marijuana. January 2017 alone brought $5.3 million into state coffers, with retailers selling an estimated $7 million worth of marijuana each week […]

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Angels of White Privilege

A cannabis delivery service skirts the laws in NYC—and seems to get away with it

(I’m a 40 something white guy. I share that because we are examining a topic that involves women, minorities and cannabis. Meaning that I will be writing about two topics that I may not be best suited to address.) From my time in NYC, I can assure you weed delivery services are not uncommon, albeit […]

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Weed Jobs 101

As a weed columnist, the most frequent question I hear is “How the hell did you get this job? Of whom do you have compromising photos that allowed this to happen, and may I see them? I mean, seriously, you?” (My answer: “Mom, we’ve gone over this. Eat your space cake and settle down.”) The […]

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Vape Fans Never Had It So Good

A look back at the O.G. predecessor to the vaporizer craze

The other night I was puffing on one of my vaporizers and working on a piece on the history of vaporization. The stories go back millennia, to the Middle East and a nomadic tribe known as Scythians: fierce tattooed warriors often credited for expanding the use of cannabis throughout Russia, Europe, Central Asia and the […]

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