This article first appeared in the Psychedelics issue of Fat Nugs Magazine, published in July 2025. While you’re perusing your dispensary’s menu or checking out what’s hot in cannabis, some names can stick out and get stuck in your head….
This story about cannabis and Hawaiian sovereignty arrived secondhand, mid-interview, at a cannabis expo. Jonah Tacoma, the founder of Dabstars, was wrapping up a conversation about economic mobility and grassroots brand-building when he pivoted. “If you haven’t talked to the…
This article first appeared in the Higher Education issue of Fat Nugs Magazine, published in October 2025. Way before “cannabis education” became a marketing pillar, education was the center of cannabis advocacy. It was the most effective way to undo…
This article was first published in the Kids & Cannabis issue of Fat Nugs Magazine, published December 2025. Generally, it’s a good idea to keep kids and cannabis separate. They don’t need to be shielded, but I think we can…
When people talk about psychedelics and cannabis today, the conversation usually splits into lanes: clinical trials, Silicon Valley microdosing hacks, or wellness trends. But before they were hashtags or “treatments,” entheogens like ayahuasca, peyote, psilocybin, and cannabis carried a much…
This interview first appeared in the Prisoners issue of Fat Nugs Magazine, published February 2025. If you are over 40 years old, you can probably recall the propaganda of D.A.R.E., Just Say No, and other anti-drug campaigns of the last…
In a city steeped in history, Jimbo Williamson, aka The Tie-Dye Tour Guide, stands out as one of Boston’s most colorful characters—literally and figuratively. A longtime tour guide turned entrepreneur, Jimbo has reimagined what it means to explore the city…
Before there was an industry, there were outlaws Before cannabis had CEOs, investors, and glossy packaging, it was moved by people who risked everything for the plant. Andrew Lopas, better known as OG Razor, is one of them. His roots…
They told us legalization was freedom. Headlines, campaigns, dispensary ads: “Weed is legal now.” But that’s not how it started. DEA vs. DEI It started with pity. Pity for veterans. Pity for cancer patients. Pity for people who looked sick…
When I first started growing cannabis back in the late 1990s, the landscape was entirely different. Cannabis was illegal, and there weren’t specialized grow stores on every corner filled with cannabis-specific nutrients. As someone who had always been drawn to…
Before any of this was about brands, before the music got packaged by record labels and the weed got logos, there was just the block. A speaker on a milk crate, a few heads from around the way, somebody’s cousin…
For years now, I’ve watched as countless individuals in the cannabis industry consistently overstate the industry’s unwillingness to examine and discuss potentially harmful aspects of cannabis consumption. You can see this happening almost daily on platforms like LinkedIn, where people…
