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Great weed that’s grown with mama’s love — that’s what craft cannabis is all about. By taking some class-A genetics and putting every minute into growing the plants with extreme daily attention, you’ll come away with some of the best weed this world has to offer. But what exactly does craft cannabis mean, and more

Charles Eddy Lepp, known fondly as Eddy, was a cannabis freedom fighter, advocate, and friend who passed away this Monday at the age of 69. Weedmaps’ Mary Schumacher remembers his life and legacy. My life would be very different had I not known Eddy. We met in late 2004 at an Oregon NORML conference. Eddy

Visual artist Scott Campbell is known for tattooing A-list stars and selling out gallery shows around the world. He also helped pioneer the luxury cannabis movement in the mid 2010s with his uber-chic brand Beboe, which became part of the Green Thumb Industries family in 2019.  Dubbed the “Hermes of Marijuana” by the NYT in

Lorena Cupcake, voted “best budtender in Chicago” in 2019, has answered hundreds of questions from cannabis shoppers and patients during their time as a budtender. And now they’re turning that experience into a monthly advice column, Ask a Budtender. Got a question for Cupcake? Submit your questions to askabudtender@weedmaps.com.   Hey Cupcake, I never get any

With 80% of women experiencing menstrual pain at some point in their lives, it’s no surprise that a number of cannabis companies have been selling products claiming to alleviate period pain and other menstrual issues like PMS. But of course, just because the label on a product says it helps with a particular malady doesn’t

Now that Covid-19 restrictions are being lifted, going back to business-as-usual is literal for some of us. Many companies across the US are opening up and requiring employees to return to their office desks just to reminisce about the days of working from home.   And though some workers appreciate the recent office openings for its

With so many great cannabis brands releasing exciting new products in new markets, it can be hard to keep track of every release. So we’re rounding up a few significant releases. This week, we look at releases by Glass House Farms and an announcement from Cookies. High Life Farms: Launch of Lift Off Michigan-based High

As awareness of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) expands, both among medical doctors and patients, we are collectively becoming more and more able to identify a condition that has been historically hard to diagnose. After all, it seems counterintuitive that cannabis can cause many of the symptoms it’s used to treat.  Researchers are taking the current

Even for the most adamant flower enthusiasts, the pull of a reliable, precisely-dosed edible is inescapable. Convenience and discretion aren’t always a necessity with cannabis consumption, but while we’re still in this no man’s land era where product options abound in legal markets while prohibition draws its final breath, it’s always good to know where

I’ve been writing about weed professionally since 2017, which means I entered the industry at just the right time to get an encyclopedic crash course in dabbing. Five years later, I’m still primarily a flower guy. But throughout the 2010s, what kept me coming back to concentrates was knowing which brands I could rely on