LOS ANGELES — Nearly 150 marijuana businesses in California warned Friday that they could face crippling financial losses unless the state extends a July 1 deadline imposing strict standards for pot testing and packaging. In a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown, the United Cannabis Business Association said the changes would further unsettle the struggling legal […]
Can you imagine a time when cannabis is as readily available and culturally revered as craft beer? Paul Rock does. He’s one of the co-founders and spokesperson of Budderweeds, an online “craft” marijuana dispensary and edibles vendor that is hoping to fill a very specific niche in the growing industry. Budderweeds went live in September 2017, […]
There’s a device that’s about to make your pot a lot more potent. Meet Attorney Shanel Lindsay. She’s the founder and president of Ardent, which makes the Nova Decarboxylater, (aka the “Nova Decarb”), which Lindsay invented. The Nova Decarb allows anyone to make any dispensary-grade products they can think of, with very little starting material, in the […]
The latest Sacramento-area figure to bring his talents and expert opinion to a national audience is comedian and local columnist Ngaio Bealum. His area of expertise? All things cannabis, including culinary creations. Bealum plays a key role on the marijuana-infused, reality TV cooking competition series, “Cooking on High,” which debuted last Friday on Netflix. A […]
‘Cooking on High,’ NetflixCooking on High. Available now on Netflix. Culinary cannabis made its first great leap into the media world in 1954, when Parisian avant-gardist Alice B. Toklas published a cookbook containing a recipe for something she called “Haschich Fudge.” It was less a revolutionary act than an accident. The dish wasn’t really fudge […]
Poisoning cases caused by synthetic cannabis have emerged once again in Illinois, this time in Winnebago County. In the recent weeks, a handful of Illinois residents have been hospitalized due to synthetic cannabis according to a report from Robert McCoppin via the Chicago Tribune. Similar poisoning cases have been reported in the state since March, […]
Andrea Drummer is the co-owner of a Los Angeles culinary cannabis events company, Elevation VIP Cooperative. As a classically trained chef, the Cordon Bleu graduate gives cannabis the gourmet treatment in dishes that reveal her ingenuity and creativity. Take, for example, her cannabis-infused bread pudding soufflé, which she brulées, or her Southern take on stuffed grape leaves made […]
Andrea Drummer is the co-owner of a Los Angeles culinary cannabis events company, Elevation VIP Cooperative. As a classically trained chef, the Cordon Bleu graduate gives cannabis the gourmet treatment in dishes that reveal her ingenuity and creativity. Take, for example, her cannabis-infused bread pudding soufflé, which she brulées, or her Southern take on stuffed grape leaves made […]
What a difference four years makes. In 2014, Oklahoma and Nebraska were suing Colorado in federal court for this state’s decision to legalize recreational marijuana, but now the Sooner State is starting to catch up with Colorado’s affinity for the plant — and in some cases, even surpass it. On Tuesday, June 26, voters approved Question […]
It’s a blowout weekend for cannabis products in Sacramento and across California. Six months after marijuana was legalized, new safety and regulation laws take effect Sunday, and some Sacramento dispensaries are rushing to clear inventory that will no longer be salable come Sunday, July 1. The deadline marks the end of a six-month transition window […]
With recreational marijuana sales set to begin this summer in Massachusetts, the legal pot industry has yet to fully arrive on the Island. A medical marijuana cultivation facility is under construction in West Tisbury with a dispensary set to open sometime early next year, but retail sales could be months or years away. Geoff Rose, […]
Starting July 1, licensed operators in California’s marijuana market must be in compliance with the state’s readopted and updated emergency regulations. Retailers will no longer be able to sell product that hasn’t passed testing lab standards mandated by regulators. They were given six months to exhaust their supplies of cannabis products made before the new […]
Cannabis for use in producing edibles can come in many forms from loose plant material, kilo bricks, buds to cannabis resin (hashish) and hash oil. Preparation for extraction involves drying, grinding and dissolving to release the medicinal cannabinoid fingerprints to be used in everything from brownies, cookies, and lollipops to gummies. Cannabis contains over 400 […]
When it comes to making cannabis-infused foods, people are starting to get hip to the nuances that can transform a haphazardly made dish that’s overwhelmed with the taste of weed into a delicious entree or dessert that utilizes cannabis as an influential ingredient, and can bring new levels of flavor to a meal. Understanding terpenes […]
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