Rex_Wholster / Getty Images When the tax on adult-use cannabis sales in Oregon was reduced from 25 to 20 percent, I still heard grumblings that the rent—along with cannabis sales taxes—was too damn high. And while our taxes on weed are much higher than those leveed on beer, wine, and spirit sales, it’s better than […]
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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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Reviewing the Propaganda-Filled Weed, Inc.
Ben Cort’s Cannabis Book Is a Frightened, Sad Waste of Tree Pulp
Ben Cort’s cannabis book is a frightened, sad waste of tree pulp.
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A Garbage Beer Company Just Invested $191 Million into Cannabis
bmcent1 / Getty Images Business Insider reports that the nation’s third-largest alcohol company, Constellation Brands—makers of pig-swill beer that you may have consumed when the choices were between their brands (Corona and Modelo, among others) or something worse (Mickey’s Big Mouth, a quart jar of rat urine, or combined sewer overflow)—made an investment on Monday […]
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Rethinking Tincture
Cascadia Herbals’ Line Is Nectar of the Gods
Cascadia Herbals’ line of tinctures is nectar of the gods.
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The Treats of San Francisco/Hooray for Hollyweed
Tangerine Dream from Flower Power dispensary in San Francisco. My last three columns looked at what’s going on with California’s upcoming adult-use cannabis program, launching statewide on January 1, 2018. I spent five days in San Francisco and six in Los Angeles, meeting with all forms of cannabis industry professionals to get a sense of […]
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GOP = Good On Pot
Getty / FatCamera It’s charitable to say the country at the moment has some… divisions. Less “You say po-tay-to, I say po-tah-to” and more “You say po-tay-to, I say snowflake cuck fake news libtard sieg heil.” And while it feels like this chasm of differences has rapidly become Grand Canyon-esque in size, there is a […]
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Trump Decides Opiates Are Bad, But Says Nothing About Cannabis Alternatives
GETTY / BACKYARDPRODUCTION President Persimmon may have actually gotten something correct this morning when he declared the opioid crisis a “public health emergency.” This is the first time a nationwide public health emergency of this size has been implemented since 2009, when the government responded to the H1N1 influenza virus. Remember that, when we were […]
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California Weed on the Eve of Proposition 64
Part Two: To Live and Get High in LA
Part Two: To live and get high in LA.
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T Is for Texas, Not THC
Schulenburg’s legendary Texas Polka Music Museum. Billy Hathorn/Wikimedia Commons Back when I was tour-managing bands and artists, a trip to Austin meant a quick side excursion to the hamlet of Schulenburg, Texas. The German-centric town is home to 3,000 residents, the Texas Polka Music Museum, and the finest Czech-style pastries known to humanity. (Stoned tour […]
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Legalized Cannabis Leads to Decrease in Opioid Abuse, Study Says
Getty / BackyardProduction The term “crisis” is used far too often these days, and, more often than not, incorrectly. (Starbucks running out of vanilla soy milk does not constitute a crisis, Hysterical Harry.) What does constitute a true crisis is where the United States is in relation to opioids. Unlike Commander Cheeto, the numbers don’t […]
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How Does California’s Weed Compare to Oregon’s?
Part One: Checking Out San Francisco’s Dispensary Scene
Part One: Checking out San Francisco’s dispensary scene.
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The Case of the Competing Gorilla Glues
Can YOU tell them apart? If you’re like me, at least once a week you get confused and fill your bong, pipe, vaporizer, or blunt not with a particular sticky and popular strain of cannabis, but with streams of a thick liquid adhesive. It’s only after taking a couple hits of the stuff does it […]