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Joshua Jardine Taylor is the Mercury's Senior Cannabis columnist and correspondent, and has written "Cannabuzz" since 2015.
Is the legal, over-the-counter way of buying weed all that much better? Yes. Yes, it is.
How exactly did the number 420 get associated with weed?
GETTY / LUMPPINI You want a cannabis news roundup? Cause that’s what we have today, and we aren’t doing any substitutions. Take a number, and we’ll call you when your canna news is ready. Green and White All Over Maryland’s had a rocky start getting its medical cannabis program up and running. Although it passed […]
Maryland woes, skinny joints, and more canna news from around the country.
GETTY / CINOBY I managed to stay healthy since March of last year, despite being surrounded this winter by numerous friends who fell victim to the flu going around. I never even got a cold. “Probably because I take really great care of myself,” I smugly announced whenever the subject came up. The universe took […]
These things in the cannabis world just need… to… stop.
On Friday, March 17, I got up at 4:30 am, left the house at 6:30, and arrived in Salem before 8. Was I super eager to get to Salem for… uh, whatever it is Salem is so well known for? No, friends, I was dressed in my finery to lobby my elected officials on the […]
Oregon has three upcoming cannabis bills that are worth knowing about.
When I moved to Portland in 1989, I knew exactly three people, I thought Satyricon was both cool and scary (right on both counts), and I had no weed connection. I did have a friend who was Fed Exing me weed from California along with the sage advice that I should find a good head […]
GETTY / EU TOUCH I’ve written about how my work in the music and cannabis industries have been complementary—how cannabis saved my sanity during the numerous tours I managed, and how offering cannabis products to those touring bands has saved theirs. But there was one time when a band saved me from a potential stretch […]
How I got out of trouble at the US border checkpoint at Sierra Blanca.
IDAHO STATESMAN / JOE JASZEWSKI The Associated Press and the Idaho Statesman—both of which are a part of the deeply feared and dreaded “opposition party” Emperor Pussy Grabber has spoken of—ran pieces last week that give some insight into just how much people enjoy cannabis. The stories looked at Huntington, Oregon, a town so small […]
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