Category: Cannabis
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A Cannabis Consumer Review: Canndescent Charge (No 514)
It was absolutely inevitable that the instant cannabis became legal, it also would become corporate. There’s a staggering amount of money to be made. What more do we need to say? To be fair though, there’s really no “middle way” to come in from the cold. The whole idea of calling it “cannabis” instead of…
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An Ode To Waking & Baking
My mind’s a blur when I awake, That is, until I let it bake. The coffee’s strong and dark and hot, A sip or two, a hit of pot. The caffeine “turns the lights on”, sure, But cannabis actually “opens the door”. There’s no magic here, no “hocus pocus”, Indicas make you sleepy; sativas give…
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The Joys Of Waking & Baking
It ain’t the cannabis talking — I’m far more productive and focused after a couple of hits of sativa. These days, my morning go-to’s are Willy Wonka, Alaskan Thunderfuck, Strawberry Diesel and Durban Poison. I like variety, ya see. I also like the way different strains work inside my brain. Yeah, they’re all variations on…
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Imagine For A Moment If They Stopped Selling Alcohol At Sporting Events & Sold Cannabis Instead
Someday — probably not soon but some day — Americans will get to attend live sporting events again. There’s something about watching sports and drinking that — maybe it’s habit more than anything — goes together. Or maybe we just think it does because we’ve never considered doing it another way. Human beings are like…
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Why Did We Ever Criminalize Drug Use To Begin With? Because Judging People Is Easier Than Helping Them…
The “war on drugs” was never a war on “drugs”. Like the drug laws it was meant to epitomize, the drug war was always entirely focused on drug users. And not just the users because they were using, but on their race. The first drug law in America was written in 1875 in San Francisco…
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Blunt Truth — Marijuana Prohibition Was ALWAYS About RACISM And Nothing But
From the get-go, every impulse to regulate cannabis has been based on racism. When the California Pharmacy Board amended the state’s Poison Act in 1913 to include marijuana in the “poisons” under its control, they were simply piling onto the racist legislation that began in 1875 when California passed America’s first anti-narcotics laws to “combat”…
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Musings On Marijuana
I didn’t start out a pot guy. When I was in high school back in the 70’s, marijuana was around. A guy I was friendly with was a hard core stoner; he stank of weed in class and watched us all with a strange, pleased detachment I now recognize as euphoria. On the occasions when…
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Sports & Cannabis — It’s Not A Good Thing, It’s A GREAT Thing
America’s sports leagues are walking point on some very important realizations we’re all having about cannabis. The NFL, MLB, the NBA and the NHL no longer punish athletes for using cannabis. As ESPN put it, league attitudes — at the rules & regs level — is now officially “whatever”. The leagues — all still holding…
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Dear Legal Cannabis Business: Here’s What I’d Like You To Be When You Grow Up
Legal Cannabis is here and it is not going away. All those dire predictions of society’s collapse? Ummmm, not quite. Just the opposite actually. As the coronavirus pandemic proves to us every day, some people can’t be dragged kicking & screaming to a good idea even if that good idea could save their life. Full…
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Question: What’s The Proper Cannabis Strain To Go With A Coronavirus Quarantine? Answer: Pretty Much ANY Cannabis strain
You know shit’s strange when real time is as plastic and fungible as time while you’re high. I don’t think it’s just me. The deeper we’ve plunged into the coronavirus quarantine, the weirder “time” has become. If you smoke as much dope as I do, you’re kinda used to thinking suddenly “Wait– where am I?…