Josh Jardine

The 20th of April is right around the corner, and for those who celebrate 4/20 as a high holy day, bless your hearts. We can use an uptick in sales at our local dispensaries, so stock up, and get down responsibly. Not to be Donald Downer, but as always, please mind your edibles intake. I’ve […]

Last year I wrote about the nightmarish scenarios that are sometimes found in cities without regulated cannabis programs, in which people sometimes resort to using synthetic cannabis, resulting in some Walking Dead behavior. No, for real—make a list of top 10 zombie-like behavioral traits, and aside from eating human brains, all the boxes are checked. […]

DRUVO AND ALEXWONG / GETTY IMAGES CBD continues to be a gamechanger. The applications of this cannabinoid, which can be made from either cannabis or hemp, keep growing—as does its popularity. Let’s take a look at what’s been going on with CBD lately. I never thought I’d be typing the words “Mitch McConnell did the […]

LattaPictures / Getty Images It’s time to revise that dusty relic of a phrase used by ignorant prohibitionists—”Marijuana is a gateway drug”— to the far more enlightened and accurate “Cannabis is an exit drug.” On Monday, the New York Times reported on two new studies by the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, coming to the conclusion […]

ZOLJO / GETTY IMAGES Back in January, I wrote about the OLCC performing random “minor decoy operations” at Oregon dispensaries, with less than stellar results. These operations involve volunteers using unaltered state-issued IDs or driver’s licenses that clearly showed they were under 21. The volunteers wore no artificial add-ons like wigs, false mustaches or aging […]