Reviews

Weed Golf has never been my kind of thing. But I play in a golf league with other cannabis writers and marketers, and the young guns among them use the Weed Golf Challenge to prove how tough they are. It’s a way to stand out by knocking down someone more established. It never affected me because no one is less established than I am. Nonetheless, after a few too many drinks in the clubhouse one ...

On a recent podcast, I mentioned I wasn't a a big fan of the Blue Dream strain. The next day, I received a terse summons from the self-styled Queen of Blue Dream: the legendary Mila Z, YouTube phenomenon and CEO/founder of the ultra-luxe BlueDream dispensaries. She tolerated no one dissing her namesake flower. Uh-oh. What had I said about Blue Dream on the podcast? Nothing good, most likely. I prefer my cannabis at one extreme ...

Here’s a common problem among cannabis consumers:  It’s a beautiful day and you really want to get high, but you’re due at the office, or a social reception, or a family gathering.  Is it too self-destructive to still light up?  Not if you choose wisely! In the pantheon of the great cannabis strains, there’s only one that doctors recommend when you need to be a sneaky smoker:  Durban Poison.  It sounds ominous, yes.  But even ...

Sometimes at night, do you need to sit down and calmly process the events of the day? Ordinarily we can deal with new facts as they come in, but on occasion we get hit by so much weirdness at once that we need time to adjust. Like if your friend comes visiting with a monkey in the car, and in the confusion the animal scampers out and flees into the next yard, and the last ...

At the Colorado Cannabis Testing Grounds, qualified marijuana reviewers have access to a six-mile bike path that winds through deep patches of forest. Peaceful and sublime, this ride is my favorite place for testing strong daytime strains. I’m set to examine some much-anticipated new Lemon Skunk, but I’m interrupted as soon as I light up by the arrival of Mr. Plutonium. I assume that’s his name because it’s emblazoned across his shiny red-and-fuchsia biking outfit. ...

Being a marijuana critic necessarily entails some risks now and then.  In this case, the danger is a hyper-alert German Shepherd named Fritz, who’s standing guard over a bong loaded with bright-yellow bud like I’ve never seen before. I’m itching to light up, but Fritz and I aren’t on good terms.  He snarls every time I make a move toward the bong, and so we remain at an impasse.  This is Max’s House of Magic ...