Weed Industry Professionals, Please Stop Doing These Things

When I’m not writing this weekly “weed comedy” column, I’m involved in numerous other aspects of the cannabis industry. It’s a great way to spend long hours making a shocking, depression-inducingly small amount of money, so I strongly encourage all the children reading this to stay in school. And to

High Times and the “World Hemp Expo Extravaganja”: How Not To Throw A Cannabis Festival

A group of festival goers dance and smoke cannabis

High Times magazine and their events are having a rough go of it lately. The all-things-weed publication had to withdraw from Washington and Oregon last year after failing to secure locations for their Cannabis Cup events. And amid numerous complaints and concerns, their annual 4/20 party had to move to a new

Oregon Hemp Convention Wraps Up The Season

A field of Hemp plants

If you're like me—and Jah help you if that's the case—you may have what people who play doctors on TV call "Cannabis Event Fatigue." This condition develops when you've spent nearly every weekend this summer inside a chain-hotel ballroom, attending conferences, seminars, expos and gatherings, all revolving around weed. Some were atrociously

Get High On The Capitol Steps in Salem

A golden statue of a male dressed as a pioneer holding an ax is seen atop the capitol in Salem Oregon, high above the tree lined mountain horizon

If you're going to be in Salem tomorrow and want to celebrate your weed-ependence, stop by the State Capitol. To usher in Measure 91 and to celebrate marijuana legalization, organizers have reserved the Capitol steps. (The actual steps, not that horrible NPR-wet-dream politico singing troupe. Seriously, who enjoys that?) As the press

Washington State Cannabis News Update

A nighttime photo of the Seattle Public Place Market sign

Not So High Times If you were planning to head to the Emerald City for the High Times US Cannabis Cup, the Seattle PI has some bad news: It's been canceled. Although High Times has held the event in the Seattle area for the past three years, the implementation of I-502 (Washington's recreational

Dabcathalon: This Was A Very Bad Idea

A statue of the five Olympic Rings sits above the ocean at sunset

Ah, the mighty Decathlon. The name comes from the Greek words for "10" and "feat," and Olympians from around the planet gather every four years to partake in the competition that many deem to be the greatest challenge for any elite athlete. But fuck that. We decided to undertake an athletic feat that

Two Days At The Oregon Medical Marijuana Business Conference

A black man in a baseball cap holds a lighter up to a glass one hitter

Early on a Sunday morning is hardly the time you want to be standing on a street corner in heavy rain waiting for a BoltBus, but that's where I found myself two weekends ago. I was heading to the Oregon Medical Marijuana Business Conference in Eugene, and my aforementioned status should

Working in Weed: Cannabis Careers Are Coming

A young Black man with a backpack stands in front of a yellow banner behind him which reads Legal next to a cannabis leaf

MAYBE YOU'VE always wanted a job in the weed industry. Not slinging dime bags to polo-shirted broheims, or hawking hand-blown glass on a dirty blanket in the parking lot of a Dave Matthews concert—but an actual, honest-to-Jah, living-wage job with benefits, paid holidays, and even business cards. Is that even a thing? The