Actress and activist Roseanne Barr gives legalization a presidential promise
Roseanne Barr knows a thing or two about commercial and critical success. Her hit TV show Roseanne lasted nine seasons and earned the comic-actress an Emmy, a Golden Globe and three …
White Russian—provided by the good folks at Kind Meds in Denver—sports a glistening lime green color and exhibits a sweet floral scent partnered up with a spicy kick that tickles the nose hairs. The buds break up into nice little …
Upon inspection, Pre 98 Bubba Kush looks like a forest of purple and dark green popcorn flowers covered in snow. This strain has a very pungent Sour Diesel-type scent with almost a berry or floral tone that’s similar to the …
Having a very light green and sparkling gold color to it, Super Lemon Haze breaks up into a fine smoke-able consistency with a sweet citrus scent—almost like a lemon pie. Crumbly, it seems to have been cured well. Provided by …
The Oakland hip-hop group that once graced the pages of CULTURE is back in the Bay Area for a stint at The Fillmore. Zion I’s 2000 release Mind Over Matter blew the scene away by offering an uplifting message fused …
Aries Spears returns to form with a performance at The Improv in San Jose. The stand-up comedian has moved his way up from his hometown comedy routine in Chicago to television shows and movies. His gained notable laughs in his …
1. Estimated number of indoor pot gardens for every 1,000 homes in the city of Oakland: 2.5 (Source: Oakland Fire Department).
2. Detectable immunological damage to HIV/AIDS patients from consuming large amounts of cannabis: 0 (Source: San Francisco General Hospital study).
3. …
1 scoop of orange sherbet
2 oz. Cannabis Simple Syrup***
4 oz. ginger ale
In an 8 oz. glass, combine all the ingredients together.
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This recipe is a harvest favorite and can be made with acorn or butternut squash instead of the pumpkin. Makes six servings.
1/4 cup Canna Butter*
2 lbs. canned pumpkin puree, canned or fresh
1 yellow onion, finely chopped
2 tablespoon flour
5 cups chicken …
3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground clove
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 large eggs
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup canned pumpkin
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
For the filling
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1 cup sifted powdered sugar (extra for …
Makes four servings.
2 tablespoons Canna Butter*
2 tablespoons Cannabis Infused Oil**
1 large onion, chopped
1 pound of peeled raw potatoes cut into 1/2-inch cubes
4 medium-size yellow and/or green apples
Salt and pepper to taste
Heat a heavy 12-inch skillet over medium heat and melt the …
Makes four servings.
4 center-cut pork loin chops, 1 inch thick
Salt and pepper
2 teaspoons Canna Butter*
2 teaspoons Cannabis Infused Oil**
In a large skillet melt the butter and oil together (It is important to add the oil to the butter to keep …
Kudos to Yerba Buena Collective in San Jose on its exquisite Peppermint Patty, a gourmet mix of tempered dark chocolate and a six-dose extract of 1.68 grams of dried cannabis in the minty gooey center. Flying off the shelves for …
How’s this for a bold stab at gourmet—a red velvet frosted cupcake. Vallejo’s 2-year-old California Collective Care complements its selection of mint cookies, peanut butter cups and carrot cake with Bada Bling, a medicated edible that looks gorgeous—deep red in …
Vallejo’s 101 North dispensary specializes in Northern California varietals, like this lovely specimen of Razzleberry Kush. Kush can be a played-out term, but this cross between Raspberry Kush and Purple Kush is super-exclusive to Humboldt County, and should not be …
Jamaican Lion was San Francisco’s 2011 High Times Medical Cannabis Cup 2nd Place winner in the High CBD category. CBD (or cannabidiol) is a cannabinoid just like THC, though it’s not psychoactive, and limits the psychoactivity of THC when taken …
Purple Lotus Patient Center in San Jose shoots for 70 percent organically grown cannabis. Helping them toward that goal is house strain Superman Sour Diesel, grown in fully organic soil with Clean Green Certified Practices. This highly regarded sativa-dominant hybrid …
Sometimes called Lamb’s Breath, Bob Marley allegedly preferred this strain, and it’s widely seen as a Jamaican near-pure sativa with some very interesting attributes. Available at San Francisco’s The Apothecarium—a well-reviewed Castro institution—this is a very special sativa. Lamb’s Bread …
The International Cannabis & Hemp Expo—and an ultra-special V.I.P. package—takes over Oakland City Hall By David Downs Hempcon, Kush Con, World of Cannabis—it seems like there are dozens of canna conferences in California all the time now. They seem to use the same venues, book the same booths of glass and [...]
Pretty Lights brings his mashup ways to Identify Fest at Shoreline
By David Jenison
It’s not every electronic artist who can say he came up with jam bands. Derek Smith, the artist-producer behind Pretty Lights, cut his teeth in a Denver music …
Raekwon brings back the Linx for Rock the Bells
By Paul Rogers
“I’ve done terrible things,” sighs Raekwon. “Comin‘ up in the street, just being wild; getting into trouble; not respecting myself or respecting people that’s around me . . . Fighting; …
Cool, efficient plasma lighting technology comes online By David Downs The earliest adopters of what’s being dubbed “plasma lighting” say their buds are growing big, fast and, most importantly, healthy under the next generation technology. Ten years after light emitting diodes (LEDs) received a chilly reception among [...]
Child porn charges dropped against Dennis Peron Citing weak evidence, San Francisco prosecutors dismissed child pornography and drug possession charges against legendary medical-marijuana activist Dennis Peron. Peron, 66, now says he may sue the San Francisco Police Department for trying to tarnish [...]
Patient:
Sugam Soni
Age:
26
Condition:
Back pain, shoulder pain, nausea
Home:
Oakland
Using medical cannabis since:
I have been using cannabis for 12 years, but I’ve been a patient for about four years.
Why did you start using medical marijuana?
When I was a student I would often use …
Cannabis reform is big news. Between the now 16 states that have passed medical cannabis laws, Colorado was one of the states who got a lot of attention when voters passed Amendment 20 in 2000. Since then, other local jurisdictions have followed suit—though the process is never easy [...]
Even with a Colorado Medical Marijuana Registry card (red card) you can still be prosecuted for driving under the influence of drugs. People are charged and prosecuted every day across Colorado for suspicion of having THC in their system [...]
According to a paper published in the Journal of Opioid Management in 2009, more than 15,000 peer-reviewed scientific and medical studies of cannabis were published world-wide between 1960 and mid-2008. A number of those studies [...]
For starters, Martin’s stand-up act includes not only wry and witty wordplay, but also his playing multiple musical instruments and even sketching on a giant paper tablet. And he’s not just a performer, but also a world-class comedy writer (for the likes of Late Night with Conan O’Brien), and now [...]
When is the last time you ate a sandwich? And I’m not asking when is the last time you were on a park bench orally fixating yourself on a pound of turkey over a bed of cheese oozing from every pore of your favorite artisan bread and dripping in mustard. I’m asking when is the last time you ate a nice tasty [...]
