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Best of Portland 2025! Please Vote! Thanks!

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Honey Bananas by Firefly Organics, and I answer the questions: where have I been, and why am I posting now?

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There's a lot of confusion out there concerning the difference between cannabis and hemp, and how some non-cannabis retailers can sell THC products that for all intents and purposes seem to be the same thing that you can get at dispensaries. Plus you can buy "legal weed" online now? What's happening? Let's unpack.

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Who’s Smoking Gilbert Grape? Spoiler Alert: It’s Me!

Next up from Preposterously and Spose, it's Gilbert Grape.

IndicaModerately Low THC (14% – 18%)Flower Gilbert Grape is next on the list of strains from Preposterously, Spose’s cannabis brand in collaboration with Faded. For the full background on all this, check out Gas Face and Sub Zero. I would like to make my quick aside on this post to say that I really like the movie for which this strain is named. 1993’s What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is an…

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Sub Zero, Because Baby it's Cold Outside

First of the next drop from Preposterously! Sub Zero. Stay Warm!

HybridModerate THC (18% – 22%)Flower It never fails: I get started early on a post, so I can be certain to get it out as early in the week as possible (preferably Mondays), and then a strain comes along that demands my attention. And this time it’s not just one strain, it’s four strains. The article I’m working on – by the way – is an overview of all this hemp-derived THC stuff we’re seeing…

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Sour Chillz, One Step Closer to Pakistani Chitral Kush

Sorry for the delay! I wanted this one to be perfect. It's Sour Chillz Live Badder by SeaWeed Co. Enjoy!

HybridModerate THC (68% – 74%)Concentrate – Live Badder Update before I even posted: Sorry for not posting last week, if you’re keeping track. I was working on this review when I learned that I was operating with some slightly inaccurate information. Honestly, it’s fairly minor, but as my regular readers (or my customers, or my friends, or my family) probably already know, I’m tediously…

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Lemon Meringue, An Excellent Daytime High

This is one of those productive strains, like Super Lemon Haze, Lemon OG Haze, or even Jack Herer.

SativaModerately Low THC (14% – 18%)Flower I’m keeping it light this week and probably next week too, as my son’s 13th birthday is this coming weekend, plus we had kid sleepovers here this past weekend and will have more this coming weekend, some related to the birthday shenanigans and some not. So aside from being really busy getting ready for his birthday (it seems that running a D&D game for…

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Dark Matter, And That Time I Think I Followed Ad-Rock to a Party

Check-ch-check-check-check-ch-check it out. What-wha-what-what-what's it all about? It's Dark Matter, by Paul's Boutique.

IndicaModerate THC (18% – 22%)Flower Life continues to be a little crazy, so I’ve got a short story for you as a lead up to the review, a story seemingly unrelated, but I’ll give you the bridge at the top. The review is for the strain Dark Matter, cultivated by Paul’s Boutique, which is somehow the first Paul’s strain I’ve decided to write up, even though I’ve had a several, and enjoyed nearly…

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Bread and Butter, Happy Belated Holidays, and Why I Took 3 Weeks Off

Good morning, Stoned Coasters, and welcome back. For why I was gone for a few weeks, and for a review of Bread and Butter by The King's Stache, read on!

HybridModerate THC (18% – 22%)Flower Good morning, Stoned Coasters, and welcome back. First thing’s first: while casual and new readers may not have noticed that I haven’t posted in a few weeks, and even regular readers may not have noticed because of the holidays, I do try to post every week, so I’d like to apologize for ghosting the blog for a bit. I ended up in the hospital for a few days not…

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Northern Lights, Another Classic from Divine Buds

This past week and weekend in particular was rough for my family, if I’m being perfectly honest. So I kept this one to a tight 1000 words. I know, I'm incorrigible. Northern Lights. It's fantastic.

IndicaModerately Low THC (14% – 18%)Flower This past week and weekend in particular was rough for my family, if I’m being perfectly honest. My son – whom I’ve mentioned before had a heart transplant when he was an infant – had some scheduled appointments over a couple of days with his doctors in Boston, and while he’s fine, there were some complications (some expected and some not-so-expected)…

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Pink Marshmallow, and the Comfort of the Familiar

This week’s strain is so good that it can stand on its own without a long narrative or allegory or lesson introducing it. That strain is Pink Marshmallow.

HybridModerately High THC (22% – 26%)Flower I’m keeping this week particularly short, which I know I frequently promise before a long post, but this week I mean it. It’s the Monday following Thanksgiving, and while I did smoke a fair amount of weed this weekend, both at Thanksgiving proper and at the mini Friendsgiving we did in Massachusetts with our LotR Bowl friends, I didn’t have the kind of…

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Garlic Butter, A Tasty Snack Right Before Bed

Welcome back, Wilshire Madison! The cultivator of one of my earliest favorites from when I started doing this professionally (Pure Kush) is back in my store, and bringing something new, with Garlic Butter.

IndicaModerate THC (18% – 22%)Flower Whether it plays out in reality or not, I feel like a trend has recently emerged in my workflow for this blog. Every other week or so is some monumental event that I absolutely must write about (reconnecting with my friend Hugh, or getting a sneak preview of Spose’s new cannabis brand), and then – given that this blog is so far from a full time job that I…

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Gas Face, I Preposterously Spose it’s Awesome

Gas Face. Preposterously. Spose. It's awesome. Read to learn more.

HybridModerate THC (18% – 22%)Flower It should be pretty clear that I’m not only from Maine, but that I have a great deal of love for the state. All the branding and flavor of this blog is Maine-centric, from the logo to the accompanying slogan “The Way High Should Be,” and the inextricable reality that I’m writing about cannabis in and from Maine almost exclusively. I was born and raised here,…

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Blue Lime Pie, Who Wants to Get Really Stoned?

I realized I could have saved my post last week about my veteran buddy until today, Veteran's Day. But I wasn't thinking this far ahead, so here's a normal strain review, as promised. Enjoy! And a thank you to those who served.

IndicaHigh THC (26% – 30%)Flower I’ve got a lot going on this weekend, and having poured my heart and soul into last week’s piece, I wanted to get back to basics for this week’s review. The review I’d been working on, which I mentioned last week, is going to happen, but is still on hold. It’s a fantastic strain, but more subtle than I’m feeling this week. Sitting down to write this week feels…

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Mutually Beneficial Budtending

I had started a review for this week, but between when I started it and today, something happened that I can’t bring myself to shoehorn into a lighthearted preamble to a strain that has nothing to do with the story. Not this time.

A Rambling I had started a review for this week, and there have been times that I’ve attached a completely unrelated story or mini-lesson (for new readers, I was a teacher in my previous life and my undergraduate degree is in Creative Writing, so I am prone to bouts of unsolicited pedagoguery when I don’t otherwise have a story about the strain to share), but between starting the review and…

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First Class Gas, Is Cannabis its Own Love Language, or is it All Love Languages?

Canuvo is back, this time with First Class Gas. Enjoy!

IndicaModerately High THC (22% – 26%)Flower When I first met the very lovely owners of Canuvo during my first industry 420 in 2022, I had a very simple question for them, but for which I had expected a complex answer. Instead I received what might be the most cliché and simple answer imaginable. My question was: How do you get such distinct aromas in your strains? And their answer was: Love. We…

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Dutch Pie, A Old Favorite's Tough Guy Big Brother

Sorry for the late post this week (and no post past week; it was my birthday, and we had multiple kid sleepovers that weekend, so getting anything done for myself was tricky). Hope you all enjoy this one. I did!

HybridModerately High THC (22% – 26%)Flower When it comes to cannabis, I have some prejudices that I struggle with in regards to cultivar lineages, and while there are so many strains available that it’s not as though I can’t find something I want to smoke – far from it – as a professional in the industry I worry that I am underselling or at least underrepresenting whole branches of the cannabis…