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Getting On The Dream Cream Team: Seattle’s Marijuana Mocha

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on July 10, 2011 Dispensaries, Medical, Products

Photo: Steve Elliott

Dream Cream founder Jim Chaney, left, and BOTH Collective expert budtender Valerie restock the cooler in Capitol Hill, Seattle.

A joint or bowl with a cup of coffee is a daily ritual for many of us. And now, with Seattle being well-known for the quality of both its coffee and cannabis, it’s no surprise that a local entrepreneur has found a delicious and effective way to combine both.

Dream Cream, a medicated iced mocha latte made in pot-friendly Seattle neighborhood Capitol Hill and available in local medical marijuana dispensaries, goes down smooth and leaves a long-lasting medicated glow.

The cannabis-infused beverage comes in both sativa and indica varieties. Sativa is medicated with “White Lady,” an exclusive White Widow hybrid that, according to Dream Cream, “yields excellent ratios of the most uplifting and analgesic cannabinoids,” while the Indica version is infused with “High Planes Drifter,” an exotic Skunk hybrid the company says “promises an enriching experience with sedative inclinations.”

Video of the Day: Buy American Pot

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on July 8, 2011 Culture, Growing, Products

We all know that a lot of people are harmed by prohibition, but who benefits? Strangely enough, some of the biggest beneficiaries are the bootleggers.
Sure, they take a big risk, but black marketeers don’t have to pay taxes, they’re protected from foreign competition, and they benefit from artificially inflated prices. Talk about protectionism.
What kind of message would an honest American Marijuana Growers Association have for us? “Thank you for your support of marijuana prohibition and buy American pot!” ~ Reason TV

Colorado Springs Dispensary Begins Testing Marijuana Strains

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on July 1, 2011 Dispensaries, News, Products

Photo: Altitude Organic Medicine

Altitude Organic Corporation, a national, publicly-traded medical marijuana company, has announced that Altitude Organic Medicine, its Colorado Springs center, has begun testing many of the cannabis strains featured there.

The store recently scientifically tested its popular BubbleGum strain for purity and potency at Full Spectrum Laboratories. Full Spectrum posted the Altitude Organic Medicine BubbleGum cannabis test in the “Best Of” section on their website.

Little Black Book of Marijuana Now Available Electronically

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on June 30, 2011 Culture, Products

Graphic: Amazon

You can read it today in electronic format for just $3.95.

You don’t have to wait for Toke of the Town editor Steve Elliott’s upcoming hardcover book on marijuana to be printed in August before you read it.

The Little Black Book of Marijuana: The Essential Guide to the World of Cannabis is now available in electronic form as an e-book for just $3.95.

The concise, small-format guide to cannabis delves into pot culture and history, from Herodotus to the hippies and beyond. It also covers the essentials of using, cultivating, and cooking with weed; identifying pot varieties; and understanding legal and health issues.

Handy and to-the-point, The Little Black Book of Marijuana is your quick reference for cannabis history, issues around legalization, and where to go from here.

“When Peter Pauper Press first asked me, back in the autumn of 2010, to write the book, I jumped at the chance,” Elliott said. “Even within the Little Black Book format’s space constraints of 20,000 words, I knew this was too important an opportunity to pass up, and over the next few months I worked to distill the essence of cannabis culture and history down into its most concentrated form, like the finest hash oil.

Psychedelic Information Theory Looks At Modern Shamanism

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on June 28, 2011 Culture, Products

Photo: Psychedelic Press UK

James L. Kent, author of “Psychedelic Information Theory” and editor of dosenation.com

Even a single, low-dose psychedelic experience can produce changes in identity and transpersonal awareness that last a lifetime. How and why does this happen?

When most of us take psychedelics like LSD, sure, it’s one of the strangest — and most meaningful — experiences we’ve ever had, and as we move on with our lives, we tend to just classify what happened under the general category of “that was weird.”

Some folks, though — those of a more analytical and scientific bent — aren’t content to do only that. James L. Kent, author of Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason definitely belongs to this more analytical category of trippers. These folks want to analyze the psychedelic trip right down to which neurons were activated, how, and why.

Hempstead World Music Festival Hits Oregon July 2 – 4

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on June 28, 2011 Culture, Products

One of the biggest cannabis-oriented music events of the year will hit Oregon in early July.

The Hempstead World Music Festival 2011 with Toots & The Maytals, Dubtonic Kru, Nikii Davis, Rhythm Culture, Kool Johnny Kool and John Trudell & Bad Dog will directly benefit the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act 2012 and Hempstalk 2011.

Stoner Photo of the Day: Brains Escape

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on June 28, 2011 Dispensaries, Products

Photo: Steve Elliott

$12 a gram, and there will be couchlock.

This strain is called Brains Escape. It’s a powerful indica I found at Emerald City Compassion Center in Seattle.

“You’re gonna lose your keys when you smoke this,” the budtender at ECCC told me when I got it on Sunday.

‘Synthetic Marijuana’ Returns In Slightly Different, Legal Form

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on June 27, 2011 News, Products

Graphic: Barely Legal Incense

Such a tasteful logo, too.

You may have heard a few months ago that the Drug Enforcement Administration had banned “synthetic marijuana” (actually not much like marijuana, and quite a bit more dangerous) on the federal level — but that didn’t settle the issue once and for all. The stuff’s back again, in a slightly different form. Developers have changed the chemical just enough so that the form made illegal by the DEA is no longer present, thereby allowing it to be sold.

One of the most popular brands of the synthetic marijuana — sold as incense to get around rules applying to substances for human consumption — is called Barely Legal, reports Jerome Burdi at the Orlando Sun-Sentinel.

Barely Legal is part of the comeback of artificial cannabis substitutes specifically designed, first, to get around the ban on marijuana, and now, to get around the ban on the original form of synthetic marijuana, which contained the chemical JWH-018. This is done by tweaking a couple of molecules just enough so that it’s no longer “illegal.”

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