Inside Scarlet Reserve Room and Jersey’s Legacy Weed Culture
As legal cannabis drifts toward corporate sameness, Scarlet Reserve Room is holding onto something harder to manufacture: culture, authenticity, and the people who survived prohibition long before investors showed up. Legal weed has gotten very good at looking expensive. Walk into enough dispensaries today and they start blurring together: white walls, glowing menus, polished branding, […]
Counter Culture: The Tip Jar at Your Dispensary Has a Problem. Several, Actually.
From tip fatigue to tip theft, the humble dispensary tip jar has become a window into some of the cannabis industry’s biggest unresolved labor questions. It’s just a jar on a counter, but the tip jar at the dispensary has a way of making things complicated. Some consumers happily toss a few dollars in appreciation […]
The Legends Who Built Cannabis Culture Are Finally Certified. It’s Called Oakland Legendary.
Oakland built the cannabis culture before there was a legal market. Now the city has a certification mark to prove it. The City of Oakland launched the nation’s first cannabis equity certification mark on April 20, giving consumers a way to identify businesses owned by operators who were most impacted by the War on Drugs […]
Politicians And Major Brands Celebrate Cannabis Culture On 4/20
Tom Angell is the editor of Marijuana Moment. A 25-year veteran in the cannabis and drug law reform movement, he covers the policy, politics, science and culture of marijuana, psychedelics and other substances. He previously reported for Forbes, Marijuana.com and MassRoots, and was given the Hunter S. Thompson Media Award by NORML and has […]
Cheech Marin Is Talking to Sandwiches in a Jimmy John’s Ad. Cannabis Culture Has Officially Gone Mainstream.
Jimmy John’s Dream Rotation campaign doesn’t wink at cannabis culture. It hires Cheech Marin, lets him argue with a sandwich and makes Kal Penn’s ideal 4/20 a gym session and a book. The wall is down. Cheech Marin is sitting, holding a sandwich. He looks at it the way a man looks at something he […]