21 memorable quotes from the Wine and Weed Symposium in Santa Rosa
Though the recent Wine and Weed Symposium may have left both local winemakers and cannabis growers with many more questions than answers, the two mega-agricultural industries in Northern California...
View ArticleCA pot testers wanted: Check out these state cannabis jobs
If you’ve got a passion for pot, California may just have a job for you. Nearly 30 cannabis industry-related positions ranging from geologists and software engineers to policy and legal analysts have...
View ArticleSupes Gorin and Hopkins push board to extend cannabis permit deadline in...
(photo:First District Supervisor Gorin spoke to the attendees. A town hall meeting was held on Monday, July 18, 2016 at the Veterans Memorial Hall to discuss the implications of legalizing marijuana in...
View ArticleNetflix’s Disjointed is a hot mess. Here’s why you’ll love it.
So does Bates actually use cannabis in real life? According to a New York Times article, she does Call it the Will and Grace of cannabis. The new Netflix comedy series Disjointed uses a spoonful of...
View ArticleSonoma Medicine Man: Wine pioneer Mike Benziger looks to cannabis, farming...
When Mike Benziger sold his family’s 85-acre estate winery in Glen Ellen in 2015, his future wasn’t exactly clear. Having been through two bouts of cancer in 2009 and 2011, Benziger walked away from...
View ArticleRed Cross headquartered at Santa Rosa cannabis company
At least 200 American Red Cross volunteers will be coordinating their Northern California relief efforts from CannaCraft headquarters in southwest Santa Rosa. The cannabis producer and manufacturing...
View ArticleNorthbay cannabis farms devastated by fires
(Above photo from Erich Pearson, SPARC) Wildfires ripping through Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino County have destroyed at least seven cannabis farms, according to reports. Grower industry insiders say that...
View ArticleSonoma company destigmatizing cannabis one chocolate at a time
Sitting in front of a locked warehouse, Siri has led me a mile down a lonely dirt road that’s got more holes than a wheel of Swiss cheese. We’ve already blown past several angry looking No Trespassing...
View ArticleSuper-concentrated diamonds are strongest THC available*
The most dazzling thing at this year’s Emerald Cup? Diamonds. THC-A diamonds to be exact. Referred to as “the world’s strongest hash” by Herb magazine (and anyone who’s gotten a little too enthusiastic...
View ArticleEmerald Cup 2017 in pictures
What a difference a year makes at the Emerald Cup. After the longtime North Coast cannabis awards celebration became a muddy mess last year, a new events management company responsible for massive...
View ArticleEmerald Cup 2017 Winners: See who’s got the best cannabis
Winners of the Flowers Category at the Emerald Cup 2017 Place Contestant Product 1 Molecular Farms Lemon Crush 2 3rd Gen Family X Dying Breed Seeds Roze 3 Malcom Hunter – Cultivate for the Cure...
View ArticleCalifornia Cannabis Crystal Ball: What to expect now that weed is recreational
Less than 24 hours before the doors to Sebastopol’s Sparc cannabis dispensary were slated to open for recreational marijuana purchases CEO Erich Pearson still hadn’t gotten the official green light....
View Article10 things that suck about recreational marijuana in California, and how to...
Not everyone is clapping about California’s rather awkward step into legalized adult marijuana use. Sure, anyone over 21 can go get a joint now — provided you can find a dispensary, are willing to wait...
View ArticleThat joint just cost me how much? High cannabis taxes vex California consumers
Standing at the counter of a Santa Rosa dispensary, I’m trying to quickly do the math on how $187 worth of products just turned into a $233 purchase. Heat rises in my cheeks, on this cold January...
View ArticleFarm-to-toke is the new smoke: Why we’re loving artisan cannabis
On a chilly winter night, dozens of cannabis enthusiasts pack into Sebastopol’s new Solful dispensary to meet seven Northern California marijuana farmers cultivating their marijuana biodynamically — a...
View ArticleAnswers to 8 Burning Cannabis Questions You Were Too Afraid to Ask
Walking into a dispensary for the first time, or the 20th time can be a confusing thing for anyone. Suddenly anyone over 21 can buy marijuana, and it’s become a complex world that goes way beyond...
View ArticleFrom chef dinners to doughnuts: Edibles are popular, but look before you leap
For many newcomers to the 420 lifestyle — now that it’s legal — cannabis means edibles. From candies and teas to wine and chef-led cannabis dinners, the high-curious are making a beeline to weed-eats....
View Article5 reasons to celebrate 420 day (even though we’re not)
420 day is so 2016. Now that it’s legal recreationally, the unofficially-official day of cannabis celebration each April 20 has become as edgy as a can of mixed nuts. The decades-old counterculture...
View ArticleAt upcoming Sonoma County High Times Cannabis Cup, cannabis isn’t a sure...
Marijuana history was quietly made last week as attendees of Sacramento’s High Times Cannabis Cup lit up at the first licensed recreational cannabis festival in the country. A similar event at the...
View ArticleCannabis Cup: $10 dab hits aren’t the future of cannabis events, but elevated...
Something seemed to be missing from this year’s High Times Cannabis Cup, held June 2 and 3 at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa — namely people and a reason to actually go. High Times...
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