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Marijuana Trading Cards Celebrate High Achievements

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 10, 2010 Culture, Products

A Berkeley medical marijuana dispensary has released a spiffy set of cards that allows cannabis enthusiasts to compare high-scoring strains such as Afghani Goo and Grand Daddy Purple.

“It was really just like an evolution of the labeling system,” said David Bowers, manager at the Berkeley Patient’s Care Collective, a 10-year-old pot shop on Telegraph Avenue. Introduced in March, the cards feature glossy photos of beautiful buds along with details about their defining traits and medical usefulness, reports Josh Harkinson at Mother Jones.

“Consumers want to get rid of physical pain, restore appetite, or find mental relaxation, and different strains help,” Bowers told David Downs at East Bay Express.

Video of the Day: Me, I Get High On Reefer

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 8, 2010 Culture, Products

Photo: Two Man Gentleman Band

The Two Man Gentleman Band, “the nation’s finest and rowdiest vaudevillian-swing duo,” has released “Me, I Get High On Reefer,” an instant cannabis classic.

“We sing some drinking songs, and get a lot of free drinks as a result,” The Gents told Toke of the Town. “So, we thought we’d apply the same logic to a reefer tune. And it worked!”

The song is from the guys’ brand new CD, ¡Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!, their sixth album, released August 31.

Just a few years ago, The Gentlemen were busking in New York City’s parks and subways. These days, they travel the country playing hundreds of shows per year for growing crowds of fans.

The Gents “prove that making old-fashioned music needn’t be polite or predictable,” according to Time Out New York, deftly balancing lighthearted romps about reefer, wine, boy/girl parties, and chocolate milk with tender ballads of loneliness and fidelity.

Pot Docu ‘High’ Now Available Free On Hulu… And Right Here

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 7, 2010 Culture, Products

Director John Holowach’s acclaimed marijuana documentary, High: The True Tale Of American Marijuana is now available, free of charge, on Hulu — and right here.

Mike Tyson’s Biggest Regret: Not Smoking Pot With Tupac

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 7, 2010 Culture, Products

Photo: Fanclub.ro

Mike Tyson, right, wishes he had another chance to smoke weed with Tupac.

Boxing great Mike Tyson recalls his friendship with rap icon Tupac Shakur in a new documentary airing on ESPN Tuesday night. The film, One Night In Vegas: Tyson & Tupac, chronicles the pair’s friendship and the night in 1996 when Shakur was shot on the Las Vegas Strip.

The mercurial boxer has one big regret about their relationship. “He always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did, and I wish I did,” Tyson said, reports AP music writer Nekesa Mumbi Moody.

Tyson said he turned down the pot because he was a “closet smoker” and “didn’t want it to get out” that he smoked weed.

“That’s my biggest regret,” Tyson says now, when he looks back on the lost opportunity.

Shakur, 25, was shot after a Tyson fight in Vegas on September 7, 1996. He died six days later.

LA Containers Offer Elegant, Practical Cannabis Storage Solution

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 7, 2010 Products

Photo: LA Container

Philips RX™ Pop Tops from LA Container have easy-seal, easy-open squeeze tops to help avoid spilling your meds.

Baggies, as almost all of us have realized by now, are a far from perfect storage solution when it comes to cannabis. For dispensaries and collectives which want a better way of storing meds, LA Container Inc., in business since 1984, offers some elegant solutions.

LA Container is so far doing business only at the wholesale level, selling containers by the case to retailers such as dispensaries and smoke shops — but if you’re a client rather than a business owner, you can always ask for them by name at your favorite outlet.

‘Weeds’ Star Mary-Louise Parker Doesn’t Smoke Weed

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on September 2, 2010 Culture, Products

Graphic: Showtime

Mary-Louise Parker may star in Weeds, but she doesn’t smoke ’em.

In some disconcerting news for those of us who have been fantasizing about hot marathon smoking sessions with Mary-Louise Parker, the star of Showtime’s Weeds has admitted she doesn’t smoke marijuana.

But at least Parker, 46, who plays the role of pot-peddling housewife Nancy on the hit cable series, doesn’t judge you for toking up, reports Gerrick D. Kennedy at the Boston Herald.

It’s not that Parker has anything against cannabis, you see. It’s just that it doesn’t seem that exciting.

‘Square Grouper’ Film Looks At 1970s Pot Smuggler Culture

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on August 29, 2010 Culture, Products

Square Grouper was the nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes during the halcyon smuggling days of the 1970s and 80s in South Florida.
It’s also the name of a new documentary from filmmaker Billy Corben and rakontur, the creators of Cocaine Cowboys and The U.
“This movie is based in part on my book,” Robert Platshorn, America’s longest-serving pot prisoner and author of Black Tuna Diaries, told Toke of the Town Sunday.

Charges Dropped Against ‘KopBuster’ Barry Cooper

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on August 25, 2010 Culture, News, Products

Photo: Loopy Lettuce

Former narcotics officer Barry Cooper got tired of the Drug War and switched teams. Now he advises marijuana users on how to avoid getting arrested.

Former Texas narcotics officer Barry Cooper, who turned against the Drug War and pulled a reverse sting operation against the Odessa Police Department, will walk on all charges related to the incident, an attorney for Ector County announced Tuesday.

Cooper, well known for his Never Get Busted DVDs, set up a fake marijuana grow house in Odessa, wired it for sound and video, and then used an anonymous letter to lure police into a December 2008 raid, reports Stephen C. Webster at The Raw Story.

Product Review: GrindTainer Disposable Cannabis Container

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on August 23, 2010 Products

Graphic: Dragon Chewer

GrindTainers are medical cannabis containers especially made for patients, by patients.

Makers of the Dragon Chewer GrindTainer bill it as “the first and only herbal packaging designed specifically for the medicinal herb industry.”

The GrindTainer offers multifunctional use, including a built-in grinder for ease of breaking down herbs, as well as a patented Separ-Eighth Divider which allows the large size GrindTainer to accommodate two different strains in the one container.

If you’re accustomed to a luxury metal grinder as I am (I use The Notch™), you’ll probably feel some skepticism when you look at the GrindTainer, made of 100 percent recyclable propylene plastic. I had a few moments of doubt, too.

Why Does Your Budtender Hate You? Here Are 5 Reasons

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on August 20, 2010 Dispensaries, Products

Photo: Robyn Twomey

Pot connoisseur William Breathes over at Denver Westword has written a funny, but on-the-money piece called “Top 5 reasons why your budtender hates you,” and it’s hard to beat for some Friday afternoon reading from the Village Voice Media empire.

“Let’s face it, being the person who sits behind a counter weighing out ganja all day long might not seem like the hardest job in the world, and there are plenty of people who would take that gig just for the leftover shake at the end of the day,” Breathes writes.

“But that doesn’t mean it isn’t work.”

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