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The Cannabis Workers Coalition Is Launching the Restorative Justice Movement Oregon’s Weed Industry Has Long Needed

The Cannabis Workers Coalition is on a mission to mobilize Oregon’s weed industry into a vehicle for restorative justice.

We Put Five CBD-Infused Topicals Through a Blue-Collar Taste Test. Here’s What We Found.

Medicated salves are a cornerstone of home remedies, but in a market flooded with both commercial and homemade products, finding the right balm is an exercise in patience.

Former Portland Trail Blazer Cliff Robinson Has Died

Cliff Robinson, the former Portland Trail Blazers star whose mix of skills and size made him a prototype for the modern NBA big man, has died. He was 53 years old. A cause of death has not been confirmed.

Cannabis-Infused Skin Care Line Make & Mary Goes Brick-and-Mortar Without Losing Its Crafty Soul

Only a few shelves line the stark white walls of Make & Mary’s newly opened flagship store on Northeast Sandy Boulevard. Still, the vibe at the cannabis skin care boutique is notably luxurious.

Cannabis Delivery Service Pot Mates Wants to Combine the Tech of the Legal Industry With the Casual Vibes of Calling Up Your Dealer

The site feels far more in tune with the wide swath of modern cannabis users who fall somewhere between cannabis as a casual hobby and cannabis as a full-fledged lifestyle.

A Weed Robbery Spree Strikes Portland Cannabis Shops, Even as Police Are Stretched Thin

WW spoke with a dozen dispensaries that described young men using rocks to shatter glass windows and doors. They kicked in fridges, smashed display cases, grabbed whatever was handy, then ran out.

Mongoose Cannabis Co.’s Walk-Up Window Is Temporary, but It Might Be a Preview of the Future of Weed Retail

Even now that it’s once again open for in-store business, Mongoose Cannabis Co. remains perhaps the only dispensary in Portland operating a walk-up window, a service that the Oregon Liquor Control Commission temporarily allowed in the same set of rule changes that permitted a budtender to meet you in the parking lot or at curbside for pickup.

The Floret Coalition Is Adapting the Giving Circle Model to Help Address the Damage of the War on Drugs

The Floret Coalition is a division of Broccoli, a Portland arts and culture magazine centered on cannabis. It operates as a modified giving circle: Small cannabusinesses join the coalition, receive an onboarding packet and commit to a minimum monthly donation.

Want to Know What Strain Is on Sale at Virtue Supply Company? Look for Tiny Bob Ross

Now, anyone inquiring about flower discounts can just look for the mini, Afro-and-palette-sporting artiste—whichever bud he’s currently painting is the one on sale that day.

Five Essential Cannabis Items to Help Get You Through This Socially Distant Summer

We might be spending more time indoors than we hoped, and doing more marching than our feet can realistically bear. But 2020 so far has been about finding comfort in discomfort and novelty in familiarity—that goes for our social lives as well as this summer’s cannabis kit.

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