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Cannabis Season – Week 9: Over 40 Miles in 1 Week for Cannabis Events and Dispensary Visits This week includes PDX HempFest at the Portland Expo Center, 420 Games in Sellwood at Waterfront Park and the NW Cannabis Club’s Medicated …

Spurred on by 4/20 celebrations, Colorado retailers sold $125.2 million of medical and recreational pot this April. The state’s cannabis industry has been constantly growing since recreational cannabis use was legalized in 2014, and this April marked the 11th straight …

Jessica Laycock spent this year’s 4/20 celebrating cannabis in one of America’s nine municipalities with recreational marijuana use legalization, but her day wasn’t all blunts in the sun like our friends at San Francisco’s Hippie Hill or Denver’s Civic Center Plaza. No, Laycock …

The most determined opponents of a cannabis reform often come from conservative religious circles, such as those who regard homosexuality as a curable disease, deny Darwin’s findings, or regard the equal treatment of all sexes as ungodly. Just recently, Jeff …

It’s been over a month since cannabis connoisseurs around the world got together to spark up and celebrate marijuana’s high holiday. But while 4/20 parties around the U.S.

In this April 20, 2016, file photo, people smoke marijuana during a 4/20 cannabis culture rally in Toronto. The Canadian government, which introduced nationwide pot legalization legislation last month and expects to pass it next year, hopes to undercut the underground marijuana market with the lower age limit of 18 and not 21, an untested theory that is being closely watched around this country and in the U.S. (Mark Blinch/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
The most controversial thing about Canada's move to legalize marijuana nationwide may be setting the minimum age for use at 18.

“420” is not just a fun three-character term: it represents a sacred day in the cannabis community. This past 4/20 in Denver, “420” took on a new meaning as the International Church of Cannabis opened its arms to “Elevationists.”

While the church’s “religion” is called “Elevationism,” what its members follow isn’t necessarily a religion as much as a spiritual thought. Steve Berke, one of the church’s founders, tells me that “We aren’t saying we invented Elevationism. Elevationism goes back in history and the history of marijuana dates to ancient China.

A whip can be your best friend at a play party, even if you're not using it for BDSM.Okay, so this one isn't specific to 420-friendly play parties, but it was such a good tip that I had to share. When I saw Melissa Vitale, NSFW's publicist and media director, carrying around a black riding crop that matched her all-black play party attire, I had to ask her about her choice of accessory.

You might recall my canna-quest from my Week 1 post, but this week includes the (un)official holiday for cannabis consumers, 420 (or April 20, for those of you not familiar with the cannabis culture).  I am also still vaping and smoking the 14 samples of cannabis flower for the 2017 Cultivation Classic.  Here is how I walked 25.6 miles from Sunday April 16 through Saturday, April 22.Sunday, 6.3 miles. Today I am judging sample 6430 from my judge’s kit.

It is 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 22. I had flown into San Diego from Detroit the night before after finally getting my medical marijuana certification in Michigan, on 4/20. I’m here with two friends. We’re the three amigos: the Todd Man, aka Todd Durban, aka T_dOG (cannabis artist-at-large); Master G, my old friend and chronic sage, and Big Ben, a traveling nurse from Philly via Thailand. We stow our bags in the trunk of our jet black Prius and prepare to drive to San Bernardino for the 2017 High Times SoCal Cannabis Cup.