smileitsmccheeze / Getty Images If you fly frequently, or have a sanity-threatening allergy to long lines, you’re likely familiar with the TSA’s “Pre✓” (as in “pre-check”) program, allowing domestic travelers to skip some of the lengthy and dreaded airport screening process. Users can keep on their coats, shoes, and belts and forgo removing laptops and […]
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Joshua Jardine Taylor is the Mercury's Senior Cannabis columnist and correspondent, and has written "Cannabuzz" since 2015.
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Why It’s Worth Keeping an Eye on Cannabis Prohibitionists
JOHNY87 / GETTY IMAGES It’s no surprise that the vast majority of my interactions—be they electronic or IRL—are with people, businesses, and organizations that you could describe as “pro-cannabis.” A lot of them are employed in the industry, in both the recreational and medical fields, and might have financial interests in the biz as business […]
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Weedmaps Fights Back Against California’s Pot Czar
You may have seen starkly designed billboards sprinkled throughout the city, saying things like “States that had legalized marijuana had 25% fewer opioid-related deaths” and “Since legalizing marijuana in 2012, Colorado has had no increase in youth marijuana usage. Neither has Washington.” The weed factoids are a project of Weedmaps, the weed dispensary and product […]
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Keeping an Eye on Cannabis Prohibitionists
Here Are Two Groups Spreading Misinformation
Two cannabis prohibitionist groups are spreading misinformation.
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Study Shows That Coffee and Cannabis May Have Opposite Effects on the Body
jackfoto / Getty Images All of my days start with coffee, and most of my days add cannabis to that equation. (In stoner speak, this is often known as a “speedball,” a name taken from the far nastier combination of cocaine and heroin. Yes, we should probably find a new name for this cannabis/caffeine coupling.) […]
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Portland Is Using Cannabis Tax Revenue to Help Past Convicts Clear Their Records
YARYGIN / GETTY IMAGES In a time when our country seems deeply and intractably divided, there are a few things we can all agree on: (1) puppies and kittens are super swell; (2) we all miss Prince something fierce; and (3) the tax on cannabis is really high. But part of the deal when we […]
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A Portland Designer Is Elevating Weed Fashion Beyond the Standard Neon-Green Pot Leaf
Dankteez The leaf of the cannabis plant can be a pleasant thing to behold. Its unique shape allows anyone to immediately identify it, and its distinctive outline has become the commonly used international symbol for weed. But when it’s put on clothing? It becomes a high crime against fashion. (Thanks, I’m here all week.) Most […]
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Our Weed Taxes Are Going Good Places
Portland Is Using Tax Revenue to Help Past Convicts Clear Their Records
Portland is using tax revenue to help past convicts clear their records.
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For Women’s History Month, Here’s a Look at Women’s Contributions to Cannabis History
The goddess Ishtar. British Museum March is Women’s History Month, or as President Cheeto calls it, “The who what now? Really? A whole month, huh?” Women’s contributions to cannabis—past and present—have been (brace yourself) overlooked, ignored, and forgotten. This is a plant that 99.5 percent of us actively seek out in its female form, so […]
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The City of Portland Is Giving Away Fat Sacks (of Grant Money to Past Cannabis Offenders)
The City of Portland is done bogarting the tax revenue raised from recreational sales of cannabis, and will now begin doling out a portion of the 20 percent tax you pay when grabbing a pre-roll, fat sack, edible, or vape cartridge. This coming Monday, March 12, the City of Portland Grants Office will hold their […]
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Women’s Contributions to Cannabis Have Been Overlooked and Ignored
Fortunately, Women’s History Month Is the Perfect Time to Look Back
Women’s History Month is the perfect time to look back at the overlooked and ignored contributions women have made to cannabis.
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Not Enough Licensed Producers Could Mean a Potential Cannabis Crisis in California
RobinOlimb/Getty Images As I wrote in my column recently, Oregon’s Attorney General has some real concerns over the cannabis produced in Oregon. Nearly 2,000 licensed recreational producers and an even greater number of medical growers—not to mention personal grows and those who operate in the “unregulated marketplace”—are growing far more cannabis that the citizens of […]