Tag: Cannabis Culture
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I Went To America’s First Ever Licensed Cannabis Café Yesterday – And It Was AWESOME!
As good as a deep, inky red wine pairs with a steak or champagne with oysters, it’s nothing compared to how well cannabis pairs with EVERYTHING. Not only does cannabis give you the munchies (there’s a reason it’s a great medicine for people with eating issues or whose appetites have been impacted by chemo), it…
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Cannabis & Productivity Go Together Like Cannabis & Feeling Good
I’ve written here before about my cannabis story. I wasn’t a fan in high school. Cannabis (if that’s what I was really smoking) put me to sleep. That didn’t appeal to me as a kid. So, I avoided cannabis in favor of alcohol, cocaine and, occasionally ecstasy. Depression made sleep hard to come by as…
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Cannabis & Sports Go Together Better Than You Think
I started using cannabis to play tennis about 2 years ago. I wish I had started way sooner. I bet I would have enjoyed tennis a hell of a lot more. I don’t mean because I’d be playing high. I’m not sure why anyone would want to do that. I don’t use cannabis to get…
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More Notes From A Former Drinker — Drinking Culture Wouldn’t Be Half So Stupid If People Learned “How To Drink”
Want to feel like a social leper? Decline an offer of alcohol from your host — whose whole experience of you is as a drinker. I might as well have said I’d turned cannibal and wanted to eat him. “You’re not drinking?” “No. Had to stop, remember — my mood stabilizer makes alcohol taste like…
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Notes From A Former Drinker — Drinking Culture Is Really, Really, REALLY Stupid
Perspective is the damnedest thing. For the overwhelming majority of my adult life, I was a drinker. I never thought of myself as an alcoholic though I drank at least 2 glasses of wine every day. Religiously. I prided myself on making not merely a good martini but a great one (I still do as…
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Cannabis + Creativity = Productivity
The first time a budtender told me that sativas would give me mental energy, I looked at him like a dog asking a question. Say what? What does that even mean — “mental energy”? If you’ve never experienced cannabis — or only ever experienced indicas (which make up the overwhelming majority of cannabis strains) —…
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Today’s Cannabis Work Cocktail Is…
Every now and then I like to share a particularly good cannabis experience. One of the great revelations of my life was that cannabis makes me work more productively. It focuses my very hypomanic mind without dulling it. My go-to daytime strain is Durban Poison. It delivers a steady, even focus that comes on quickly…
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The Remarkable Pleasure Of Coffee & Cannabis
I love mornings. I didn’t used to love them but these days my day doesn’t so much “start” as spark to life. My morning routine feels a lot like the lights suddenly going on inside a factory. That’s the caffeine in the coffee of course but even more than that? It’s the cannabis. I hope…
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When It Comes To Cannabis, I’m Strain Specific
I approach cannabis from the point of view of “What do I want cannabis to do for me right now?”. In the world of legalized cannabis, that should be the operating principle. To think cannabis is only good for “getting high” is very old fashioned thinking. And very misinformed. While the labels “indica” & “sativa”…
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An Ode To The Civilizing Influence Of Cannabis
As I write this, I’m waiting for the final bowl of my nighttime meds (I started with Skywalker then finished with a bowl of Godfather with a little Afghani sprinkled on top. In a few minutes the combined effects of those strains should fuse into a feeling of delicious, creamy sleepiness that I can surrender…