Posts Tagged ‘cannabis’

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 recommendation....
April 24th, 2012 | Articles, Featured | Read More

Eat Your Medicine! “The Cannabis Gourmet Cookbook”

Eat Your Medicine! “The Cannabis Gourmet Cookbook”
Story and Photos By Sharon Letts Additional Comments By Humboldt Chef Lauren Sarabia What’s the difference between a traditional cookbook and a Cannabis cookbook? Dosage and a “Legal Heads Up” are two obvious distinctions. In fact, dosages in Cannabis as medicine is a deal-breaker for...
April 20th, 2012 | Cooking, 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 enough...
March 6th, 2012 | Articles, Featured | Read More

Candelight Vigil to Commemerate the Death of the Compassionate Use Act in San Diego!

Candelight Vigil to Commemerate the Death of the Compassionate Use Act in San Diego!
Source: Patient Care Association of California (PCA) When: Wednesday, February 15th  at 4:20pm Where: In Front of the San Diego City Attorney’s Office, San Diego Civic Center Plaza, 1200 Third Ave, San Diego, CA 92100 RSVP:http://www.facebook.com/events/290168584371983/ , http://www.citizens4patientrights.org As...
February 10th, 2012 | Activism, Featured, News | Read More

February 2012 Product Reviews

February 2012 Product Reviews
Kush Scientific™ We received the new Type 2 Puckline™ from Kush Scientific to try out. This pipe is amazing. It is a 19” beast. The percolator at the bottom is something that I have not seen before and it really allows for a strong perc! I have been seeing the popularity of scientific-type glass...
February 10th, 2012 | Featured, Product Reviews | Read More

We’re still here! February 2012 issue of NUG hits the streets!

We’re still here! February 2012 issue of NUG hits the streets!
Welcome to the February issue of NUG Magazine, San Diego’s Original Cannabis Publication, and from the looks of things – the ONLY one left! As I stated last month, it has been a tough couple of months for the San Diego medical cannabis community. The raids last month on multiple collectives have...
February 1st, 2012 | Featured, News | Read More

Happy New Year from NUG!

Happy New Year from NUG!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Thanks for picking up another issue of NUG Magazine. 2011 was an up and down rollercoaster ride in the cannabis community and, unfortunately, ended on quite a downturn. But as I always say, “2 steps forward and 1 step back is still 1 step forward!” When I think back over the last...
January 4th, 2012 | Featured, News | Read More

The Chronisseur 21 of 420

The Chronisseur 21 of 420
This month’s samples are courtesy of the The Halloweed Gathering, an exclusive event that was held just before Halloween, where the cream of the crop was put to the test by San Diego’s finest. Out of 11 total strains, Purple Kush, Tokyo OG, and J-1 came in on top at first, second, and third place,...
December 16th, 2011 | Featured, The Chronisseur | Read More

The State of Medical Cannabis in San Diego: More Patients than Patience

By: Pamela Jayne Disclaimer: This was written in a state of raw emotion in reaction to the U.S. Attorney and the Department of Justice’s decision to shit on the rights of medical cannabis patients and providers. The following words are neither eloquent nor offensive, but true. And like my Mom has always...
December 14th, 2011 | Patient Profile, San Diego | Read More

Medical Marijuana Use On Probation

Medical Marijuana Use On Probation
By: Michael E. Cindrich On November 5, 1996, California voters passed Proposition 215, also known as the Compassionate Use Act (CUA). The CUA added section 11362.5 to the California Health & Safety Code, which created an affirmative defense for people who use and cultivate marijuana for their own...
December 12th, 2011 | Articles, Featured | Read More

A conference of peacemakers in the world’s “war on drugs”

A conference of peacemakers in the world’s “war on drugs”
By Dion Markgraaff The 2011 International Drug Policy Reform Conference held in downtown Los Angles this past November was the biggest and best meeting of freedom fighters in this epic ongoing “war on drugs.” The bi-annual gathering of peacemakers in this war came together for three days to renew...
December 8th, 2011 | Activism, Featured | Read More

The Chronisseur 20 of 420

The Chronisseur 20 of 420
As a dark cloud of injustice shrouded our fine city, and our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were being spat upon by our government, I sat down with The Chronisseur to exercise the one right that we can always count on: Free Speech. But little did I know that the very next day,...
November 10th, 2011 | Featured, The Chronisseur | Read More

Thanksgiving Cooking with Canna Chef Kim

Thanksgiving Cooking with Canna Chef Kim
Written by Canna Chef Kim ~ The REAL Mother Earth Co-op ♥ Proudly serving San Diego MMJ patients since 2005 Thanksgiving is traditionally observed on the fourth Thursday in November and has officially been an annual tradition in our country since 1863, when during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln...
November 9th, 2011 | Cooking, Featured | Read More

Patient Profile: Carrie


By: Pamela Jayne Working mothers are under a tremendous amount of pressure balancing the needs of their children, a job, and other family responsibilities. We all know the extraordinary lengths they go each and every day; but can you imagine dealing with all of that and having to endure a cancer diagnosis...
November 2nd, 2011 | Extended Magazine Articles, Patient Profile, San Diego | Read More

November 2011 NUG Magazine

November 2011 NUG Magazine
Welcome to another issue of NUG Magazine. Obviously by now, you have realized that our page count has dropped this month. Not to worry, we will still be bringing you just as much information and articles as usual, but some of our usual features will now be online only here at www.nugmag.com, so make...
November 2nd, 2011 | Featured, News | Read More

City & Federal Governments’ Latest Attempt to Shut Down Dispensaries Met with Protest

City & Federal Governments’ Latest Attempt to Shut Down Dispensaries Met with Protest
Article & Photos By Esther Rubio-Sheffrey SAN DIEGO – Approximately 200 medicinal marijuana advocates, patients, collective employees, young and old alike, gathered Tuesday afternoon to protest the latest attempt to shut down all of the collectives in San Diego by year’s end. After gaining a...
October 25th, 2011 | Articles, Featured | Read More

Hemp Beach TV

Hemp Beach TV
By George Alberts Telecommunications have come a long way since the development of the television in the 1920s. Over the decades, it has become an integral part of our lives and something we can’t seem to step away from; but when we do, we now find ourselves glued to our computers because of the internet....
October 25th, 2011 | Articles, Featured | Read More

The Importance of Music in the Cannabis Movement and Why We Feel the Need to Explain…


The Importance of Music in the Cannabis Movement and Why We Feel the Need to Explain…

By: M.J. Smith So, we have received a few comments recently that we are wasting our voices, time, and efforts by covering music in NUG Magazine. Apparently, some people do not like the music, arts, and other mainstream events that bring a “culture” crowd to the cannabis movement. These people believe...
October 19th, 2011 | Articles, Featured | Read More

Legal Eyes: Lance Rogers

Legal Eyes: Lance Rogers
By: Pamela Jayne So…A lawyer and a blonde walk into a diner. No, this isn’t the opening line to the worst joke ever; it’s the setting for my interview with Lance Rogers, a mild mannered San Diego native who abandoned a career as an actor to become an attorney, and who is currently fighting aggressively...
October 13th, 2011 | Articles, Featured | Read More
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