Cannabis Honey at Home Earlier this year a friend asked me if I would like to join her for a Saturday mead tasting in Southeast Portland. The party — celebrating recently opened Mead Market, the city’s only mead bottle shop and an entirely bee-centric store — was easy to agree to, but not just because the alcohol and dandy snacks would be free. Horticulture is my … [Read more...] about The Buds and the Bees
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Cannastudio
High Definition Art The creative world is helping to re-brand the new generation of legal cannabis, shedding the “counter” part of “counterculture.” For the Portland-based business, Cannastudio, this means re-visualizing the cannabis plant through photography and design. The studio showcases kaleidoscope-like designs, created by … [Read more...] about Cannastudio
The Art and The Leaf with Julia Krase
Written by Art Cosgrove Cannabis and artistic expression go hand-in-hand. Now that the industry has come out of the shadows, so have the genres of art it inspires. Julia Krase is riding this wave. She primarily works as a sequential artist, a medium that uses images to tell a story, and supplements her income as a bud-tender at the popular … [Read more...] about The Art and The Leaf with Julia Krase
Panacea for All
One Woman’s Goal to Give Back to the Aging and LGBTQ Communities Written by Art Cosgrove Panacea is an elegant and cozy dispensary which sits on a busy stretch of Sandy Street in Northeast Portland. Owned and managed by Melissa Egan, Panacea has been in operation since the start of Oregon’s legal cannabis boom two years ago. As a former industry outsider, Egan said her aim … [Read more...] about Panacea for All
Higher Profiles: Farm Fresh Healing
Higher Profiles By Sharon Letts Pain, Cancer and Cannabis: A Love Story Brandon Collier learned how to farm cannabis when he was just 15 years old. As a third generation farmer, he has cultivated cannabis for two decades in Bend, Oregon. When Collier was 13, he was hit by a car. The accident damaged several disks, which are now fused together. He has … [Read more...] about Higher Profiles: Farm Fresh Healing