Filmmaker and cannabis icon Kevin Smith dishes about why he converted to the cannabis cause
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Patient:
Kareen Feldman.
Age:
55.
Condition/Illness:
ADHD, seizure disorder, side effects of chemotherapy.
Home:
Los Angeles.
Using medical cannabis since:
1989.
WHY DID YOU START USING MEDICAL MARIJUANA?
I started having grand mal seizures. The doctors were giving me pills, but they weren’t working and they asked me what I normally …
Smooth, rich, creamy and herbalized, chocolate pudding doesn’t get any better than this! Serves 4.
4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
10 tablespoons sugar, divided
3 tablespoons cornstarch
3 cups half and half
1 large egg
3 large egg yolks
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup …
Here’s the quintessential comfort food—creamy, cheesy and topped with crunchy breadcrumbs. Serves 4.
3 tablespoons salt
8 ounces elbow macaroni
4 tablespoons Canna Butter*, divided
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons dry mustard powder
2 cups whole milk
1 small onion, peeled and minced
1 bay leaf
1/2 …
This satisfying meatloaf stays moist and gets extra flavor and a special kick from the onion gravy. All the medication is added to this versatile sauce which also tastes great on mashed potatoes, steak, pork chops, chicken or most any …
Using fire roasted tomatoes gives this soup a subtle smoky flavor (if you can’t find them, regular diced tomatoes will do). Using canned tomatoes lets you make this soup all year round and gives a nice nutritional boost as canned …
It’s always a pleasure when edibles take surprising and unique forms. Enter Gummy Bites. Just like they sound, these treats from OC Good Life in Garden Grove take the form of little pieces and chunks of red-colored gummy candy made …
This edible takes the form of a pungent barbecue sauce with a delicious, wonderfully sweet taste. This is a sauce (from Green Ribbon Collective in Riverside) that can be enjoyed by all. Not too overpowering, but nicely balanced. Best used …
Platinum Jack has a fruity, herb garden scent and comes with compact buds and small bracts. The buds have tiny, frosty trichomes and deliver a smooth and mellow hit. You might catch a hint of Grape Romulan in its spring-mountain …
This is a truly gorgeous bud with a mouth-watering aroma. Its structure is interesting; the groupings are springy to the touch, but each of its buds and bracts are tightly compact. Each bud packs loads of resin and has nicely …
This is a bud with a complex and refreshingly pine-like aroma. Kryptonite OG also has a tantalizing and toasty smell. The plump nodules on the tightly packed flowerette-looking buds, and its bracts, are fully packed with resin. The trichomes on …
Covered with sparkling crystals, Blue Haze almost looks dew-kissed. It’s so loaded with trichomes that the bud sparkles like a stack of diamonds. Because of its striated leaf, this strain has a little different appearance. With more hair than bud, …
With New Year’s Eve falling on a Friday this year, get ready for some industrial-grade partying all weekend long. Here is a sampling of some of the coolest NYE events, parties and celebrations taking place across Southern California Be green this New Year by celebrating at the [...]
The fact that Steve Cooley nearly became the Attorney General for California should have sent shudders through the state’s medical marijuana users. As Los Angeles County District Attorney, he’s energetically sought the closure of L.A.’s pot dispensaries and there’s [...]
The band Pepper left paradise behind for Southern California at the perfect time. It was 1999, Sublime still loomed large and surfing had never been more popular on the mainland. Pepper helped fill the post-Bradley Nowell soundtrack void with upbeat, Sex Wax [...]
Rightly or wrongly, Proposition 19 went down in defeat last month—but that doesn’t mean that cities and voters in California aren’t prepared for a new era in legalized marijuana. Voters in nine California cities approved measures to tax pot dispensaries this past Election Day [...]
Now that Queens of the Stone Age is more than a decade old and has surpassed the fame of date shakes, it’s time for Josh Homme and the rest of the band to look back at a deed well done. Come January, Homme’s label Rekords Rekords will reissue the band’s self-titled [...]
Chris Goss formed the rock band Masters of Reality in 1981 and has had a somewhat off-and-on, revolving line up of musicians that have made up the group. The band fuses together classic and hard rock styles with a quasi-stoner rock vibe. With Goss being an [...]
The election in California is over and the results are in: Proposition 19 won the election, but implementation will be delayed for two years. Wait, let me explain. Yes, I know that the election results showed that only 46.1 percent of the voters favored Prop. 19, and 53.9 percent voted “no,” but nevertheless [...]
Revisions approved in November created buffer zones around parks, adding to existing rules that prohibit dispensaries or growing cannabis near schools, residential areas or other collectives. The new rules require nine sites to shut down, leaving only 27 dispensaries to operate [...]
There’s just so much that happened this past year—how did we squeeze it all in just 12 months? Take our hands as CULTURE takes you down memory-impaired lane to recap the highlights, low points and hilarious moments our medical marijuana community faced in 2010 [...]
