Josh Jardine

Hennepin Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis. JoeChristensen / Getty Images While there are legit issues with cannabis here on the West Coast, overall we have it pretty good. Supplies are plentiful, selection is bountiful, and new strains and products are refined and released regularly. And in cities everywhere along the coast, there continues to be discussion […]

filo / Getty Images Canada, America’s 51st state, may be about to launch into the thrill ride that Oregonians bought an e-ticket for three years ago: recreational cannabis legalization, via the C-45 bill, the Cannabis Act. The bill is up for a crucial vote later this week (on Thursday, June 7), and if it passes […]

rgbspace / Getty Images It’s time again for our readers’ mailbag, in which I place a mailbag over my head, and readers beat me senseless until I answer their questions. No, wait… I’m thinking of how the new CIA director operates. In this case, I’ll simply answers questions that showed up in the mail, no […]

Yesterday, the OLCC announced they are pausing their acceptance of new cannabis business licenses. From the announcement: “The OLCC will temporarily shift licensing staff to focus solely on recreational marijuana licensing renewals for current licensees, already submitted recreational marijuana applications, and medical marijuana registrants required to start using Oregon’s Cannabis Tracking System.” Only applications received […]

PhotoBylove / Getty Images When people don’t want to talk to their doctor about using cannabis, it’s often because they fear being judged and lectured on their choices, and offered prescription medications instead. You know, medications that may have serious side effects such as spontaneous blindness, fatal stroke, or EPS (exploding penis syndrome). But a […]

< Grön chocolate from the Panacea dispensary. It’s no secret that Oregon is experiencing a serious over-abundance of cannabis—right now, there are hundreds of thousands more pounds being produced than there are being consumed. There is a multitude of reasons for this, and the softness of the market means hard times for growers and producers […]

Getty Images / Janifest If there’s a city screaming out for cannabis legalization, it’s New York. Thanks to the draconian cannabis regulations they have on the books—part of the legacy of the state’s Rockefeller Drug Laws—getting popped smoking in public virtually guaranteed you a one-way ticket to central booking. (Which isn’t as highly sought after […]

YARYGIN/GETTY IMAGES Being an immigrant in America right now is hard enough. But being an undocumented immigrant is filled with a whole different level of uncertainty and difficulty. Simply coming from a different country and living in the US creates challenges those of us born here never have to consider. But as a nation with […]