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Cannabis" Undeniable LGBTQ+ Connections Run Deep
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1355+ words) As Pride Month draws to a close, we honor Dennis Peron and the other legends from California's cannabis and LGBTQ+ communities. Let's take it back to where it all started. This grew into Island Restaurant in the Castro (food downstairs,…...
Drakken Glass: Making Magic
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (256+ words) Drakken Glass turns heat, mythology and technical precision into a viral moment and a statement on the future of cannabis craftsmanship. Raymond'says his love of glass'began in childhood'when he collected marbles and Venetian glass beads and turned them into jewelry....
Summer Care: Pest Management and Crop Maintenance
2+ week, 1+ day ago (188+ words) Everything you need to know to care for your cannabis crop this summer. Insects, fungi and other pests attack plants which are stressed. Over-watering, over-fertilizing, small containers/root binding, extreme environmental conditions and erratic light regimens will stress plants out…...
Aficionado Seeds: The Legacy of Sour Diesel
3+ week, 1+ day ago (686+ words) Aficionado Seeds" decades-long crusade to spread the "real" Sour Diesel. "Is that the real Sour Diesel? I remember it differently It"s gone extinct" Many a weed head has had this exact conversation. But is the real Sour Diesel gone?...
Germany Imported Over 218 Tons of Legal Cannabis in One Year
4+ week, 15+ hour ago (253+ words) Germany imported more than 218 tons of medical cannabis in a single year, reinforcing its status as Europe's largest and fastest-growing legal cannabis market. When it comes to Europe's emerging legal cannabis industry, Germany continues to stand alone as the undisputed…...
$60 Million Cannabis Lending Fund Signals Major Shift in Industry Finance
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (593+ words) Fund Canna's new institutional-backed credit facility could mark a turning point for cannabis operators long squeezed by limited banking access, cash-flow challenges and expensive debt. The cannabis industry has spent the better part of a decade doing something almost no…...
Splitsville? Explaining Schedule III
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (557+ words) How the cannabis industry becomes two separate entities with Schedule III. For years, the cannabis industry has treated federal rescheduling like a finish line. It isn't. And without new federal legislation'not merely reclassification'that policy gap's unlikely to be resolved soon. The…...
Tha Dogg House: Snoop Dogg's New Amsterdam Spot
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (72+ words) Snoop Dogg gets caffeinated at his second coffee shop in Amsterdam. The Doggfather cut the second ribbon at Oudebrugsteeg 26 this past February to a massive crowd before partying it up Mokum style. For all of those in attendance, that was…...
Luckiest Strains for St. Patrick's Day
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (380+ words) Although St. Patrick's Day isn't a legal holiday in the U. S. , many still celebrate the day with parades, lots of drinking and copious amounts of green clothing. Whether you choose to go all out with a full leprechaun costume and Irish…...
Women & Weed: A Story as Old as Time
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (309+ words) Though far from equitable representation, is the tide in the cannabis industry shifting decidedly female? Cannabis culture and the legalizing industry springing up from it (or alongside it, depending on whom you ask) is often touted as one that's male-dominated....