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Got Bud? High Times 2012 Medical Cannabis Cup Lacking in Green, Big on Dabs

Got Bud? High Times 2012 Medical Cannabis Cup Lacking in Green, Big on Dabs
Story and Photos by Sharon Letts Along Point Richmond’s waterfront, doors down from stoney Emeryville and Berkeley, sits the historic Craneway Pavilion – former home to a Ford manufacturing plant turned arms maker during World War II, where the infamous “Rosie the Riveter’”...
July 9th, 2012 | Articles, Featured | Read More

Perpetual Motion: Dwreck

Perpetual Motion: Dwreck
This month I’ve danced in Dante’s inferno barefoot and begged the disk jockey for an encore. I’ve dined on forbidden fruits and drank moonshine for dessert. I’ve sent a crow into the lonely night with a message for my mind’s hidden minions. I’ve embraced darkness....
May 25th, 2012 | Articles, Featured | Read More

Deep Green Fest II: Educating, Enlightening and Inspiring Green Goodness

Deep Green Fest II: Educating, Enlightening and Inspiring Green Goodness
Photos and Story by Sharon Letts Richmond, CA – Deep Green Fest II was held the day after 4-20 in the picturesque locale of the historic Craneway Pavilion, located just over the Richmond Bridge from San Francisco. Ganesha watches over Deep Green 2012 at Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, California. Joining...
April 27th, 2012 | Articles, Featured | Read More

Idrasil

Idrasil
An Orange County nutraceutical firm, C3 PATIENTS ASSOCIATION, has several U.S. patents pending on a dietary supplement comprised of whole-extracted cannabis, in a pill. Being touted as “Quality of Life, In a Pill”, IDRASIL is currently available in California with a valid doctor’s...
April 24th, 2012 | Articles, Featured | Read More

4/20 and The Importance of Dates

4/20 and The Importance of Dates
Ever since humans began keeping track of time in calendar form, every race, creed and religion on earth has attached special significance to certain dates. We have more than a dozen “official” holidays in the United States alone every year. But, in fact, just about every day is some kind...
April 18th, 2012 | Articles, Featured | Read More

This is the True Life Story of Medicinal Michael – “The Luckiest Guy in the World.”

This is the True Life Story of Medicinal Michael – “The Luckiest Guy in the World.”
Four days after we were wed, my wife surprised me with a Hollywood honeymoon. Little did I know that this trip would be the start of my comedy career.  I loved the color of my wife’s eyes and I remember thinking that they looked like a cat’s eye marble. I could stare into her eyes for...
March 9th, 2012 | Articles, Featured | Read More

Seshat’s Secret

Seshat’s Secret
Solving the mystery of what the ancient Egyptian goddess of wisdom was all about brings to light the true nature of the world’s favorite forbidden flower I am not an Egyptologist, but I played one as a boy in the late 60s.  Attracted by the art, the mythology and the unsolved mysteries, I spent...
March 6th, 2012 | Articles, Featured | Read More

Profit Is Allowed Under California Law

Profit Is Allowed Under California Law
In a Recent Letter, the Originator of SB 420 Clarifies that Medical Cannabis Providers Can Make a Profit. There is a widely held miss-perception that businesses in the California medical cannabis industry are prohibited from making a profit.  In reality, no California law prohibits cannabis-related...
March 1st, 2012 | Activism, Articles, Featured | Read More

The Marijuana Show

The Marijuana Show
Kinetic Weed in Humboldt BowlofSourD: "Bowl 'o Sour D" Sour Diesel is a Humboldt favorite, trimmed fluffy for personal use (indoor, organic). Eureka – “’The Marijuana Show’ will embrace the elephant in the room,” said co-organizer Alice Krause of the Humboldt...
February 28th, 2012 | Articles, Featured | Read More

Perpetual Motion: Degenerate Art

Perpetual Motion: Degenerate Art
By: Aaron Evans As I sat down to the opening credits, it was clear I was about to experience something exceptional. Striking industrial shadows set a dark background as fuel tanks flung open, the day’s artistic weapons were chosen, and finally, in a golden explosion, a flame was set ablaze. A...
February 15th, 2012 | Articles, Featured | Read More

Breeder Spotlight: Matthew Riot – Riot Seeds

Breeder Spotlight: Matthew Riot – Riot Seeds
By: Jed Sanders Photo Strain: Soul Assassin OG Kush As the San Diego attorney’s office wages war against safe access to medical marijuana, it has done nothing but push patients to, once again, find their medicine amongst a black market. The timing of the federal government’s latest bust at...
February 1st, 2012 | Articles, Extended Magazine Articles, Featured | Read More

NugLife Living For NUG Magazine

NugLife Living For NUG Magazine
Written by: Medicinal Michael Boris Photos by: Nick Compton Happy Nug Year! This past year has been the most exciting year for NUG readers and smokers alike. 2012 is the year of “The Protest”. I don’t know about you guys, but I am sick and tired of hiding who I am and what I smoke....
January 18th, 2012 | Articles, Featured | Read More

Perpetual Motion: Aaron Sokol

Perpetual Motion: Aaron Sokol
By: Aaron Evans BANG! The starting gun has sounded. The real race has just begun. Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you didn’t place your bets early, for there’s a new contestant in the competition, and the odds have just been changed. This month’s featured artisan, Aaron Sokol, isn’t...
January 13th, 2012 | Articles, Featured | Read More

San Diego Performing Arts Portal January 2012

San Diego Performing Arts Portal January 2012
By Marc Emmelmann Time is of the essence, running January 7 -15 is the evocative play Spring Awakening, a modern adaptation with alternative rock and other symphonic and soothing musical sounds. Late 19th century Germany may be somewhat similar to modern times for young people figuring out their sexuality...
January 11th, 2012 | Articles, Featured | Read More

420•LTD™ Apparel

420•LTD™ Apparel
Tell us about 420•LTD™ Apparel. 420•LTD™ apparel is everything street about the 420 lifestyle, a premium clothing brand for the Cali way of life with a focus on the 420 subculture. 420•LTD™ represents the hustle, lifestyle, and culture of California or as how we like...
January 11th, 2012 | Articles, Featured | Read More

2012 – The Year of Change – Did the Mayan calendar predict the end of prohibition of cannabis?

2012 – The Year of Change – Did the Mayan  calendar predict the end of prohibition of cannabis?
By: Dion Markgraaff Everyone seems to be giving their interpretation of what the end of the current Mayan calendar in 2012 means. Who really knows, but with the wall of cannabis prohibition cracking globally – could the Mayan calendar’s end coincide with the beginning of the chance at cannabis...
January 5th, 2012 | Articles, Featured | Read More

NUG MAGAZINE’S 11 ALBUMS WE HOPE YOU DIDN’T MISS IN 2011!

NUG MAGAZINE’S 11 ALBUMS WE HOPE YOU DIDN’T MISS IN 2011!
Band: Lionize Title: Destruction Manual Headline Entertainment, February 8, 2011 Genre: Rock, Funk and Reggae Reviewed By: Gio Blitz This CD’s tie of Rock, Funk and Reggae undertones is a perfect example of one of the better mixes of these genres, with a variety of rhythmic lyrics thrown in as...
December 30th, 2011 | Articles, Featured | Read More

NugLife Living

NugLife Living
By: Medicinal Michael Boris Ho! Ho! Ho! Medicinal Mike here, commenting on another month of living the NugLife. Merry Chriskwanzakkah, everybody!  We are so blessed to be a part of the NUG family. The NugLife Radio Show is celebrating its one year anniversary and, looking back, it has been the best...
December 28th, 2011 | Articles, Featured | Read More

Green Candy Press Releases A Six-Volume Strain Resource Guide

Green Candy Press Releases A Six-Volume Strain Resource Guide
By R.J. Villa Photo on the Right: Clockwork Orange by Riot Seeds Cannabis Indica: The Essential Guide to the World’s Finest Marijuana Strains, Volume I Our friends at Green Candy Press have recently released Cannabis Indica: The Essential Guide to the World’s Finest Marijuana Strains, Volume...
December 27th, 2011 | Articles, Featured | Read More

Puresel

Puresel
By Tiffany Janay Africa is known for many of its natural resources, such as gold and diamonds, but there is so much more to the land; the plant life is as rich as its minerals. Puresel is a new company determined to provide high quality plant life to people who can’t so easily travel around the...
December 26th, 2011 | Articles, Featured | Read More
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