Josh Jardine

OKSANA SMITH / EYEEM Having this platform to share canna-centric news, viewpoints, and historical insight is a great privilege. It also means that I’m sometimes besieged with new products for review, and while that’s usually fantastic, it can sometimes… not be. The thing that seemed so awesome to a team that’s developed a fancy new […]

An Ypsilanti, Michigan, cannabis dispensary. smontgom65 / Getty Images If you live in Michigan and are a medical cannabis cardholder, get thee to a dispensary by Friday, as there are about to be some serious fire sales. But it’s not being done for a good reason—the state is forcing 98 Michigan dispensaries to shut down. […]

Dmitry_Tishchenko / Getty Images CBD products with .3 percent THC are quite the rage as of late, showing up in everything from lotions to lattes. The anxiety-busting, relaxation-inducing effects are sought out by those who don’t want a big dose of THC, or may live somewhere which does not have a regulated medical/recreational cannabis program […]

One C-note will get you a cup of coffee and an eighth of weed. eldadcarin / Getty Images Earlier this week, two of my oldest and dearest friends headed to San Francisco for a vacation, and reached out to ask which dispensaries should they check out. Last year, I wrote a two-column series about California’s […]

When I got this press release, my first thought was the missed opportunity of not having an attached .wav file that played this reworked Van Halen “classic”: “Ow, got it bad, got it bad, got it bad… I’m hot for Cheeba. I got it bad, soooooo bad, I’m hot for Cheeba.” That would have been […]

Nastasic / GETTY IMAGES This past Saturday, a new rule went into effect for licensed outdoor cannabis growers. It’s the first of its kind in the nation—yay—and is in direct response to the pressure from the feds, starting with Trump’s white power whipping boy, Attorney General Jeff Sessions. To what degree it will alleviate the […]

It’s time for the second installment of our new Cannabuzz series Prohibition Arguments, Cannalyzed™, in which I examine cases made by cannabis prohibitionists, refute them with facts and opinions, and am rewarded by angry emails and comments from aforementioned prohibitionists telling me what a stupid, useless stoner I am. Serenity now. ARGUMENT: Cannabis dispensaries attract […]

OPENRANGESTOCK/GETTY IMAGES You may recall in December of last year, when the DEA raided a Public Storage facility in Portland, and seized 500 pounds of cannabis. It made the news when the manager was held at gunpoint by the two alleged owners of said weed, who suspected him of having stolen their stash. Yesterday we […]

NIKITA GUSAK/GETTY IMAGES On Thursday, the OLCC passed a temporary rule which radically changed, without warning, the amount of flower that an Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP) patient may purchase. Previously, an OMMP patient or caregiver could purchase up to 24 ounces per day from a dispensary. Beginning today, Friday, August 24, that amount is […]

BRAZZO / GETTY IMAGES Maybe you’ve heard someone talk about about “jonesing” for weed, or “needing” to smoke, or having a “habit.” Hey, maybe that someone talking was you. The idea that someone has a fever for cannabis that can only be treated with more cannabis implies the dreaded A-word: addiction. But come on—is that […]