Entrepreneurs and enthusiasts came from Canada, Mexico, and the coasts to enjoy each other’s company—and exchange knowledge about what’s next in cannabis.
Read MorePruf Cultivar won the Ladies’ Choice award with Astral Works, their exclusive 2:1 CBD-dominant strain. The aggregated data from all Cultivation Classic judges showed that overall, across the hundreds of strain entries, female and male judges agreed on what they liked more than they didn’t. But out of all the strains entered, Astral Works showed the most significant uptick when it comes to the enjoyment of female judges versus male.
Read MoreSerra—a high-end dispensary with two locations in Portland, Oregon, where both medical and recreational marijuana sales are legal—sells beautiful bongs, artisanal pipes, and even utilitarian avant-garde art that any weed-loving design enthusiast would be proud to display.
Read MoreIt’s impossible to miss. On the corner of an otherwise grey intersection in northeast Portland, Oregon sits a colorful house with neon signs proclaiming “REEFER” and “GRASS.”
Read MoreGroundworks Industries, a vertically integrated company that has quietly become a major Oregon cannabis player, said it has agreed to acquire the highly regarded Portland dispensary Farma.
Read MoreGroundworks Industries, which operates Electric Lettuce, Serra, and Pruf Cultivar, has signed an agreement to acquire award-winning Portland-based cannabis dispensary, Farma.
Read MoreIf you want your CBD packaged in some of the best chocolate you’ll ever taste, check out the Relief Square from Serra and Woodblock Chocolate.
Read MoreIncluded in Serra’s display was their chocolate made in partnership with Pruf Cultivar and Woodblock Chocolate which they also showcased at TechFestNW.
Read MorePortland is home to the state’s most thoughtfully designed spots, where shops are putting as much thought into interior design as the inventory.
Read MoreHead to the city's Lloyd district for the '70s-stoner vibe of Electric Lettuce, where shoppers might find themselves grooving to Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" or any of the other LPs stacked next to a turntable and wood-grain stereo receiver.
Read MoreConsider this: A bar cart stocked with thoughtfully designed smoking accessories could look seriously cool—and keep you and your company highly entertained.
Read MoreBut when it comes to shopping for cool stoner gifts, Serra takes the cake. It carries items you won't find elsewhere under one roof.
Read MoreElectric Lettuce wants people to come in to buy weed, but also to get lost in nostalgia, listen to records, and look at the old posters and cannabis memorabilia.
Read MoreThe all-around best cannabis flower I tried this year, by a country mile.
Read MoreAt Pruf Cultivar, Jeremy Plumb wants to map out the genetic and environmental factors that make cannabis have specific therapeutic effects.
Read MoreA powerful indica from Pruf Cultivar, the Storm erupts into sweet-smelling oak-and-pine clouds when lit, obliterating all conscious thought with a strong but not overwhelming body high.
Read MoreFashion and a little herbal refreshment have never been such close bedfellows. Go ahead and make someone on your list very, very happy this year.
Read MoreMen, don’t run away screaming when I say this, but prepare to throw away your dirty bongs and burn your stash boxes.
Read MoreNew to Portland (USA) is Serra, arguably and potentially the most sophisticated cannabis dispensary in the entire world.
Read MoreIf ‘weed-chic’ was going to happen anywhere, it’d be here.
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