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Hemp in Flower
Cannabis Now @cannabisnow · Feb 4, 2023 For a fresh take on the hemp industry, I visited Tweedle Farms outside Portland, Oregon last autumn to learn about the company’s success in offering quality smokable hemp and how it has educated a whole new breed of consumers on the importance of the lesser-known compounds found in cannabi Also In 🍀 Cannabis Also In Cannabis Now Also In Media As the CBD frenzy sweeps the nation, consumers can find the cannabinoid in everything from soft drinks to...
Hemp in Flower
Cultivation Oregon-based producer Tweedle Farms goes beyond CBD to offer smokable hemp buds. As the CBD frenzy sweeps the nation, consumers can find the cannabinoid in everything from soft drinks to deodorant. Hemp fields now cover huge swaths of American farmland and professional sports players celebrate CBD on social media. It’s certainly exciting to watch as cannabis reaches the masses, but one can’t help but think there is more to the plant than one three-letter acronym.
The Whispers of a River
Friday, July 8, 2016 The Whispers of a River Southern Oregon waterways are among the region's best assets If a river could talk, it would speak of rapids and small cataracts, of meadows where cattle and deer graze amicably, of cities and small communities, of rugged cliffs and gorges carved over millennia, of hills in verdant hue. The river might tell of humans who float its surface, some in boats, kayaks or rafts, others using no watercraft.
The Heroes’ Journey
PHOTOS Heroes of the Farm In the foothills of Mt. Hood, Oregon’s tallest mountain and most active volcano, lies an unexpected ganja gold mine. Surrounded by towering fir trees and cascading streams, I arrive on an early autumn evening at the “Heroes Compound” to meet the esteemed cannabis breeder and cultivator, Patrick Pooler. “This place was a massive trash pile when I first started working on it in 2010,” Pooler recalls. “The people before us had been scrapping cars and cooking meth.
Breeding for Cannabinoids: The CBG Seed
It’s early on a mid-March Friday morning at the Oregon CBD headquarters, outside Corvallis, Oregon. The company’s co-founder, Eric Crawford, is breaking up a piece of intimidatingly frosty cannabis as I watch with apprehension. “Don’t worry, it’s only hemp,” Crawford jokes as he packs the flower into the bowl of a glass pipe.
Oregon’s Pot Production Problem
A 70-acre CBG plot at Willamette Valley Growers in Salem, Oregon./Photos by Emery Garcia Oregon’s saturated recreational cannabis market has been stealing headlines nationwide, but it’s exploding CBD-driven hemp market may not be too far behind. The promise of profits has brought in farmers from all ends of the industry, but some fear the boom may cause the entire cannabis industry to crumble.
Data is King at Cultivation Classic
Photo by Emery Garcia Despite heavy rain and a tough Blazer game, it was a packed house Saturday, May 18, for the fourth annual Cultivation Classic award ceremony held at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon. The Cultivation Classic is a three-day, scientific centered event that showcases cannabis cultivators in the state who shy away from synthetic and salt-based fertilizers and strive for sustainability.
‘Dirt Is Inert, Soil Is Alive’
It’s a dreary late-November day at Alter Farms and Cody Alter is ecstatic. No, not because of the 3,000 plus cannabis trees he and the crew were able to tackle before the rains came. Nor was it the fresh batch of seeds they collected from hand-pollinated varietals. For Alter, the excitement is in the soil. “We planted our cover crop a little late but it sprouted and by spring these rows will be knee high in vegetation,” Alter says.
Review: Level Up Exemplifies Luxury Dispensary Design
The world’s most visually appealing store just so happens to sell cannabis. No, really — Megan Stone of The High Road Design Studio won trade magazine Visual Merchandising and Store Design’s 23rd annual International Visual Competition for her design of Level Up, a cannabis dispensary in Scottsdale, Arizona. Level Up caters to an affluent clientele, so Stone set her sights on a storefront that creates an elite experience for patients.
Sting and Shaggy Get Weird
Even though the iconic singer Sting — front man of the Police — professes to not be a huge consumer of cannabis (“[I] rarely smoke it socially,” he has said), it’s hard to imagine he wasn’t totally blitzed out of his mind when he signed up for this bizarre and baffling collaboration with the Jamaican singer Shaggy (you know, it wasn’t him).
The Products You Need for the Ultimate Pot Party
For better or worse, it seems nowadays that the most important step in throwing a successful party during this era of social media obsession is creating a photogenic party atmosphere. While we still believe that loving friends, crowd-pleasing music and top-shelf bud are absolutely crucial for a shindig, these party decorations will help make your next social gathering so visually enticing that the Instagram famous masses would roil quietly behind their screens with jealousy.
Casual Cannabis Use on TV Is Becoming Common
Cannabis has been a part of movies and television for decades, but the way it’s presented has evolved and shifted over time. We’ve come a long way from the 1936 movie “Reefer Madness” — it’s pure comedy now to portray weed as an insanity-inducing danger — but that isn’t the only way cannabis representation has progressed. Even just the last decade has resulted in noticeable change that can be seen clearly in entertainment media. Casual cannabis use is steadily on the rise in television and movies.
Recovering the Lost Legacy of Cannabis in Japan
Given that cannabis in Japan is harshly prohibited, the plant is practically unheard-of there. However, over the past couple of years, an unlikely spokesperson for cannabis emerged in the figure of Akie Abe, the wife of conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The Ultimate Marijuana Manicure
Nail art is all over social media, and likely a few of your friends’ hands as well. It’s a pop of personality, and the salon experience to get a fresh manicure is a little act of self-care that allows you to sit back and relax while the nail tech does the work. With padded massage chairs, relaxing music and beautiful polishes to choose from, getting a manicure has become something I look forward to — and I felt this way even before I found an event that added marijuana to the routine.
Why I Decided to Join the Oakland Equity Program
As California opens up to adult use, I feel it is crucial to discuss and highlight how one county has attempted to equalize the playing field by including locals, victims of the drug war and people who otherwise might not have had access to this burgeoning industry. That county is Alameda County and, specifically, the great city of Oakland.
Would You Test Home Grown Cannabis?
Nobody can deny California is awash in cannabis. The nation’s largest state produced 13.5 million pounds of pot in 2016, according to an estimate prepared for the state’s Department of Food and Agriculture. And yet, there are industry observers who predict an impending marijuana shortage. How can this be? How can scarcity be found among bounty? The answer is mostly government which, like alcohol, may be both the cause and the solution for this particular problem of life.
Gold Seal: San Francisco Growers Look Towards the Light
I’m at a warehouse grow on the industrial outskirts of San Francisco — inside a metal shipping container that’s been converted into the grow room for a massive pheno hunt — and I’m practically suffocating on a cacophonous cloud of competing terpene profiles.
Oregon’s Sinsemilla Worries | Cannabis Now
ost cannabis smokers born before the ’90s know the familiar sound of torching an unwanted seed. It begins with a pop, turns to harsh smoke and culminates in a fierce headache. Fortunately, our great nation is blessed with an abundance of sinsemilla (cannabis without seed) — but in the state of Oregon, seeds are not only a looming threat to the consumer, but the entire industry at large. Cannabis is predominantly grown for its cannabinoid-rich flowers, or buds, which occur on the female plant.
RIP to the OMMP: The Death of Medical Cannabis in Oregon | Cannabis Now
lory Daze Botanicals is the epitome of a family farm. At their headquarters deep in the mountains of Southern Oregon, goats and horses keep fields mowed, chickens happily turn food scraps into compost, and well-kept orchards and garden plots provide fruits and vegetables year-round. But for well over a decade, small batch medicinal cannabis has been their focus.
10 Things to Know About Terpenes
PHOTO Bruna Branco The cannabis industry is abuzz over terpenes. Everyone in the know is claiming it’s “all about them terps brah,” but do you truly understand these magnificent compounds? Here are 10 things you probably didn’t know about the intoxicating aromas of cannabis. These wildly diverse organic compounds are produced by an array of plants and insects and exist abundantly in nature.
Assessing the Oregon Cannabis Climate | Cannabis Now
For Oregon cannabis enthusiasts, 2016 was an exciting year. The state began issuing its first recreational marijuana licenses, and larger-than-life farms started sprouting up. Sungrown producers were poised for their biggest hauls yet, but between Mother Nature and the state legislature, it was a challenging season for just about everyone growing under the sun.
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