Cannabis & Psychedelics
Announcing the First Ever Orange Hill Ganja Cup
Fat Nugs Magazine and a host of other brands, businesses and organizations from around the globe will be coming together to not only sponsor the first annual Orange Hill Ganja Cup, but build it from scratch…
Exploring Coral Cove's Magic Mushrooms
Coral Cove Wellness takes recreation and relaxation seriously providing no shortage of activities across its coastal property and beyond. This is supplemented heavily by the Jamaican sunshine, food, cannabis and a mushroom or two (or ten..) of the psilocybe cubensis family…
Cannabis Consumption at Coral Cove, Jamaica
I landed in Jamaica early in the morning; the airport was still opening up. A few folks were walking with me through long hallways leading to customs past Jamaican advertisements and Bob Marley quotes to the arrivals lobby…
Time for Tinctures: Spiked Flamingo
Tinctures have not been part of my cannabis connoisseurship efforts until this year. I’ve been trying some different consumption methods as I experiment with my cannabis moderation and medication…
Balancing Acts: Kendama & Cannabis Moderation
There’s an aspect of balance across all areas of life from work to health, personal to public and everything in between. I’ve been working to balance my cannabis use and moderate consumption…
Cannabis Connoisseurship for Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas
Super Bowl LVIII is right around the corner with an epic rematch featuring the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas…
Elevate your Grind: One Turn at a Time with Bear Grinder
There are few pieces in the smoker’s kit more essential than the grinder. To get the most out of your flower, roll even joints and pack full bowls, getting a consistent grind is key…
Round 1 Revisited: Missouri’s Cannabis License Lottery
Growing up in Missouri, my family would sometimes gift lottery scratch cards or get one or two randomly because “you never know.” I can remember thinking about the potential while searching for some loose change to do my scratching…
Cypress Connections: Exploring Inzane in the Membrane
The lineage of the cultivar Inzane in the Membrane by Ethos genetics is unknown and listed as Noneya x Business. The lineage of Cypress Hill is quite different…
Trade Roots - An Interview with Jesse Pitts & Carl Giannone
Co-Founders of Trade Roots, Jesse Pitts and Carl Giannone, run the state’s first social equity status, full vertical cannabis business. Operating a lab, garden and retail storefront, they have gone above and beyond…
Flower Mill: Stop Grinding & Start Milling
As we all know, the grinder is an essential piece of the cannabis consumer’s toolkit. From plastic to wood to steel with varying designs and complexity, a grinder does what it has always done, breaking down delicious trichome covered buds for consumption…
Apartment 113 Joins the Chamber of Cannabis
The Las Vegas Chamber of Cannabis is a community-driven organization that is dedicated to creating a more inclusive and equitable cannabis industry. As a new member of the Chamber…
Switzerland's Cannabis Industry Test Drive
Interesting news from Switzerland this week as they take the next steps towards cannabis legalization…
Lucky Leaf Expo, Kansas City 2023
As I walked out of the plane in Kansas City last Thursday to go to Lucky Leaf Expo, there was a moment or two of surprise…
OG Raphael Mechoulam
The Cannabis Industry and Culture lost one of the great ones this month. Dr. Raphael Mechoulam passed away at 92 years old...
German Cannabis, Reform on the Way
In Germany, cannabis litigation has been moving forward this year after some big moves were made last year to prepare…
What’s the deal with the US Cannabis Patent 6630507?
Way back when in 2009, I wrote a paper in Psycho-Biology at Kansas State University about the effects of cannabinoids on the neurodegenerative disease Alzheimer’s…
Sensitization Protocol, Reset your Relationship with Cannabis
With all the positive, therapeutic and financial potentials of cannabis being super powered by the legal industry, moderation is rarely discussed…
Psychedelics and Self Improvement
Psychedelics are here to stay as cities and states explore alternative litigation….
Down with High THC
Standing in line at the dispensaries here in Las Vegas, one can overhear customers ask for the highest THC products constantly…
Today’s market is changing rapidly - all day, every day. There’s no more resting your laurels in product management and business in general. There are competitors already, and there will be more soon. This can be worrying, but doesn’t have to be, with proper internal processes.
I’ve been working on Agile and Scrum certifications for several years now. One of my certifications is called Certified Scrum Professional Product Owner or CSP-PO. I took this course through Scrum Alliance with the good folks at Applied Frameworks and learned quite a few techniques I use regularly in my product management work day to day…
For Agile product managers, story points are an essential part of the job. During each sprint, the product team works with other teams to set a sprint backlog of items to work on next. In some scenarios, this is easy, but in many others, market pressures, client demands and leadership expectations can conflict and introduce chaos…
Building SaaS isn’t an easy thing to do even when the team is technically able to get it done. There are emotions and relationships with one another, the work, the business, the market and so much more that can skew perspectives…
There’s one role that’s overlooked, underrated and overrated all at once on every team, and that my friend is the Scrum Master. This sometimes controversial role can be held by members of the scrum team…
We’re going to dig into release frequency today and consider agile product management when it comes to releasing completed work. How often should it be done? Should every sprint be released? Those are the kind of questions we’ll cover. But first…
“Plans are nothing, planning is everything,” at least that’s what Dwight D. Eisenhower said. The plans will change, but it’s in planning…
The Agile approach puts flexibility, collaboration and customer satisfaction front and center…
The world of SaaS (Software as a Service) moves quickly and can change often depending on the industry…
When implementing Agile methodologies for software teams, there are many different obstacles that can come up…
I’ve been in the software space for six years. One thing that can be overlooked in a company is psychological safety and its impact on innovation….
Before discussing the ins and outs of PLG Companies, it’s important to understand the evolution of PLG…
We define a Product Manager as one who is responsible for delivering tangible concrete outcomes or values to/for the organization…
We discussed the Agile Mindset along with the 4 important values and 12 underlying principles in the last article…
In Agile practices, the mindset matters most. Processes followed without said mindset can provide an illusion of Agility even if they increase the value created by teams…
Edibles have quietly become part of everyday routines, showing up alongside work, creativity, relaxation, and sleep. As the category has matured, the differences between products have become more nuanced than flavor or dosage alone: new formulations have created edibles that claim to hit faster.
There are a handful of smoke sessions in my life that have stuck with me. Most involved good people or unforgettable places. Jamaica with the Fat Nugs team. Infrasound Music Festival. Late nights at Apartment 113 afterparties. Those memories are tied to people and music. This one was different.
Prophet continues to raise the bar for quality cannabis in California with intentional limited drops that consistently deliver clean cultivation practices and terpene-forward flower that actually lives up to the hype. Their Sticky Mango release is another example of that precision and eye for unique cultivars.
Reeform is a brand partnership between Weldon Angelos and Oaksterdam University to share his story and mission to help those that have been affected by the war on cannabis. Weldon was charged with a felony and minimum sentence of 55 years for his first and only cannabis offense in 2004.
Brand identity is key to brand building in and outside of cannabis. Prophet brings one hell of a story to bear as both founders, Luke Scarmazzo and Ricardo Montes, opened the first medical dispensary in Modesto, California, before being raided and arrested by federal drug agents in 2006…
This Chem Taxi, from Alternative Medicine Association in Las Vegas, has a funky aroma, which stands out in the crowded concentrate market…
Peanut Butter Souffle is an Indica leaning Do-Si-Dos x Lava Cake cross bred by Phinest and Cannarado..
The Haze strain is created by two brothers and has Landrace origins. It traces back to the early 1970s in California…
In Las Vegas, there are many dispensaries to choose from near the Strip, each with their own story, history and specialities…
There’s one particular dessert-themed cultivar that has become a mainstay in the industry over the last few years, Wedding Cake…
This sample has the same dense trichome coverage that all of Luxury Loud’s cultivars bring to the table…
Impressive packaging here with a box within a box that contains a heavy glass jar with the sample in it. This did raise the expectations, perhaps too far…
Pure Michigan, pure delight. You can tell this one is top shelf immediately…
Classic Durban right here coming from the heart of Detroit. A funky fuel smell brings on a burst of sweetness that creates a cloying scent so well known in the industry…
My sample contained a beautiful top cola nug weighing in a little over 3g…
The flower looks to have been good quality, but my sample was smashed in handling and storage…
Great trichome coverage with a quick and messy auto trim. Super subtle, very slight hints of floral sweetness…
Good to try a sample from Swami’s brand. Swami is on the Ganjier council and extremely knowledgeable…
An interesting blind sun grown sampling. The bud structure is sparse….
This cultivar comes from a Sunset Sherbert x Wedding Crasher cross. My sample is a very nicely trimmed piece of a large top cola. The shape and form of the bud has been followed carefully in trim.
One of the top strains in Las Vegas at the moment! This sample did not disappoint, beautiful flower with a high trichome density…
Dark purple hue from the anthocyanins in this cultivar come from a Grape Stomper X Cherry Pie X Wedding Cake origin…
This sample was mostly smaller but carefully trimmed nugs, with some sugar leaf remaining…
This cultivar has a sage-like earthy nose with occasional subtle notes of sweetness that surprise you…
