1. With Canada’s Cannabis Act, Bill C-45, passing its second senate reading, recreational legalization is middling toward reality across the country. As the provinces scramble to prepare for the unknown date, New Brunswick is notably on the ball when it comes to cannabis industry development. The province’s 2016 Economic Growth Plan naming cannabis as a […]
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Bath bombs and weed have dope chemistry together
The “toke and soak” is just right. Smoking weed increases the desire for things that engage all the senses. We pot-smokers want a full-body, immersive experience to really elevate that high, so there is a natural jump from smoking a joint to relaxing in a warm bath. And, like the theme of the If you […]
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Green is the new gold
“What would you do-o-o for a Klondike Bar?” sings the commercial, a nod to the epic discovery of gold in the Yukon in 1896. In the ensuing gold rush, after news of the Klondike’s riches reached the outside world, tens of thousands of would-be gold-diggers giddy’d up and headed for Canada’s north. News of Justin […]
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How to get started with cannabis
Annie MacEachern is an advocate using her voice to help get medical weed patients heard in the din of recreational pot legalization. But she’s also an experienced cannabis user herself, and when we chatted about the medical cannabis fight she had some great tips for pot newbies. Here’s MacEachern’s advice on where to start, and […]
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Q&A: Coming out of the cannabis closet
WWhen she was 19, Annie MacEachern moved from Prince Edward Island to British Columbia, where—of course—she discovered the joys of cannabis. She remained a recreational weed user when she came back east to get her public relations degree at Mount Saint Vincent University, during work stints in the Alberta oil patch and through her eventual […]
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High Five: Solo edition
Legalization is going to mean a lot more people casually smoking up together, but with weed sometimes it’s nice to just go solo. Here are five high-elevating things you can do to have the time of your life without leaving home. One of these suggestions is bound to tickle your fancy. 1Masturbate Speaking of tickling […]
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Weed mapped: what’s behind where the NSLC will sell legal cannabis
Weed users got a skimpy gram from Stephen McNeil’s government when the province’s legal cannabis retail locations were revealed this week. There will be exactly nine NSLC locations carrying chronic for all of Nova Scotia, justice minister Mark Furey announced, from Yarmouth to Sydney River. You can see them all in the map below. For […]
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Bisexual women have good reasons for using weed so much
Which sexual minority smokes the most weed? Score top marks if you said bisexual women. That’s one of the things Dr. Margaret Robinson talked about when she presented High/Functioning: Bisexual Women and Cannabis earlier in January at the Dalhousie Feminist Seminar Series. (The series, led by Erin “Notes From a Feminist Killjoy” Wunker, isn’t always […]
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America just doubled down on the war on drugs
When California started 2018 by formally legalizing weed, it felt like a blow to Canada’s cool cred. California has more people and a bigger economy than Canada, and it made legalization happen January 1, while prime minister Justin Trudeau is already losing his nerve for what had seemed a firm July 1 deadline. That’s weak, […]
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Ring in 2018 on a high note (but not too high)
Halijuana, edibles, cannabis, pot, Lucy LaPlante
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Weed and alcohol are too close for comfort in Nova Scotia
The Federal Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation recommends cannabis be sold separately from booze, in stand-alone stores. That’s the way PEI and New Brunswick are gonna deal with legal weed. It’s an approach endorsed by multiple studies explaining how THC and alcohol exacerbate each other’s effects and intensify injury and fatalities when mixed, […]
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3 weed strains that won’t strain your budget
As Sweeney Todd‘s Mrs. Lovett Sondheim-sighs in her first solo, “aye sir, times is hard.” While I’m not making human pies to make ends MEAT right now, I have had to become savvy with my pot allowance. To get double dosages out of my stash, I’ve been vaping more often and then using the leftovers […]