Cannabis Guide 2020

Index Media We’ve all been there. You’re drinking at home, hiding out from coronavirus while listening to 69 Love Songs and sniffing your ex’s old undershirts. You’re adequately sauced, but not so drunk that you can’t remember all the words to “I Don’t Want to Get Over You.” Then you decide that what this moment […]

Tojo Andrianarivo The air at the ongoing Portland protests—which have continued for more than 100 days in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police—is often filled with burning, peppery smoke from tear gas, or fragrant sage from activists. But a wide variety of attendees also use cannabis—smoked, vaped, imbibed, or otherwise—to maintain […]

gmast3r /Getty Images Among the many gifts 2020 has bestowed upon us, “the fear of others” and “the fear of the outside world” are the gifts that just kept on giving. While Amazon and DoorDash have helped replace dealing with real humans, neither handle cannabis—and unless you’re growing your own, how are you gonna stay […]

Nika Sheeran / @nikasheeran While some of us are just now relaxing into the warm embrace of stretchy waistbands, Raina Casey’s been sporting tomboy chic sweat suits since well before the pandemic. It’s no wonder she opts for comfort when her life’s work is dedicated to, well, death. Casey is an end-of-life doula—a profession that […]

Fat Camera / Getty Images The University of Washington has led a special initiative to investigate workplace risks associated with the cannabis industry, and they’ve found a particularly chaotic landscape when it comes to worker protections. Because the federal government still hasn’t legalized pot, there’s no national guidance on protecting the safety of employees, leading […]

Annashou / Getty Images More than ever, folks are adapting to the telecommuting life that I’ve enjoyed for the last few years. But while working from home is amazing for a lot of reasons, it’s also sometimes impossible to 1) actually work and 2) want to work when the nagging presence of TV, animals, offspring, […]

Heylo / Phil Donley Laurel Friesen graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in environmental chemistry, and her plan was to go to medical school. However, she realized cannabis had healing properties that scientists had not explored, and that working with traditional medicine was not going to allow her to explore them either, so she […]

Lightfield Studios / Getty Images Unless you’re 102, this is probably your first pandemic. The challenges we face in the COVID crisis are both psychological and physiological and we’re addressing them with myriad tools (including Pelotons, power napping, and pie). And more than ever, those tools include cannabis and CBD. But different products produce different […]

Cata Gaitán Truth: 2020 has been a banner year for Things That Make Me Want to Smoke Weed. For related reasons, it’s also been a remarkably bad year for lungs. At first, it was the highly contagious, deadly airborne virus. Then came the tear gas, enveloping us in clouds of noxious, cancer-causing chemicals. Then came […]

Stefan Tomic / Getty Images There’s little “good news” while in the middle of a pandemic. With the national death rate topping more than 200,000 and positive coronavirus cases reaching 7 million, it’s pretty easy to slip into a state of hopelessness and depression. However there are things we can do to power through this […]