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Tips on How to Celebrate Dab Day, the Other Great Stoner Holiday

We don’t typically need a special reason to get high, so when we come up with one, it’s a doozy. Take, for instance, Dab Day. If you look at the number 710 upside down, it appears to spell OIL. For that reason, on July 10, the cannabis industry celebrates Oil Day—or, as it is more colloquially known, Dab 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.

What to Gift Your BIPOC Stoner Friends, and Where to Donate After

Two ways to lean into this social justice marathon—it’s definitely not a sprint, people—is by both supporting the grassroots organizations that support the myriad causes tied into the Black Lives Matter movement and showering your friends of color with really, really nice gifts.

A Quick-Hit Guide to Black-Owned Cannabusinesses in Oregon

Now is the time to put your money (if you’ve got it) where your mouth is (not literally, there’s still a pandemic going on) and change your spending habits to support black-owned cannabis businesses in Portland.

Monthly Cannabis Sales in Oregon Topped $100 Million for the First Time Ever

Oregon cannabis sales reached another milestone in May, topping $100 million for the first time since recreational use was legalized in 2015.

Six Funky Weed Strains to Keep the Public Away During This Socially Distant Summer

Whether you’re spending the first moments of the season protesting in the streets or reveling in another golden Portland summer—or, ideally, both—these outrageously pungent strains can help you maintain both a 6-foot safety sphere and a positive outlook.

When Women-Run Cannabis Company Peak Extracts First Started, They Had to Pretend to Hire a Man to Get Licensed

Katie Stem might be Portland’s most well-rounded mad scientist.

This Memorial Day, Barbecues Are Out, Getting Stoned by Yourself Is In. These Strains Will Help.

It’s a tradition to celebrate Memorial Day by eating a pile of food from a paper plate in somebody’s crowded backyard. But just because your auntie’s BBQ is canceled and the economy is tanking doesn’t mean you can’t take a moment to smoke a joint in honor of our fallen military servicepeople.

Missing Group Smoke Sessions? Here Are Five Ways to Replicate the Experience Online.

Sure, FaceTime smoke circles with the homies are a welcome respite from solo medicating. But if you’re missing the novelty of meeting new BFFs through the magic of weed, these free virtual mixers are the next best thing.

Seven Portland Stoner Moms Describe Their Ideal Mother’s Day

If there were ever a year for moms to unapologetically lean into their namesake Hallmark holiday, 2020 is that year.

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