WEIGHTY SUBJECT [HEY, YOU!]

Hey, dispensary workers selling me a 0.5 on top of my weed sack: I don’t know how many times I’ve gone into a spot to buy 2.5 grams and been told it doesn’t sell half-grams. I just don’t really see your logic. If you’re going to sell me a 3.5-gram eighth, then what’s wrong with [...]

BURGER OF THE DAY: THE REAL HAMBURGERS OF ORANGE COUNTY

VEGGIE GRILL The Veggie Grill offers a Beyond Meat patty that tastes almost like the real thing—dripping with fake vegan “blood” and all. The Beyond Burger is topped with a tangy special sauce, vegan cheese, sweet grilled onions, tomatoes, lettuce and a sesame-seed bun. Even though beyond meat can taste “too real” for some animal-free [...]

Nearly 250 Protestors March To Get Ice Out Of Long Beach

Nearly 250 people gathered at Harvey Milk Park in Long Beach on Saturday and marched to the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office while chanting, “Education not deportation.” The demonstration was part of nationwide ”close the camp” protests against the treatment of immigrant children at federal deportation facilities. Similar street activism was held in [...]

Fighting Hunger Is Part of Bloom Farms’ Business Plan

Having grown up in California’s Calaveras County, the younger sibling of the Emerald Triangle (a.k.a. Cannabis County), Michael Ray always had pot as a part of his life. He learned how to grow the plant at a young age, but his future was really put in motion in 2009, when the Golden State began to [...]

Giving Back Is In New Generation’s DNA

New Generation dispensary staff gather under a white popup tent outside a shelter at Santa Ana Boulevard and Ross Street, as homeless people line up for new clothing, socks and water bottles. The workers stepped away from their air-conditioned facility on the other side of Santa Ana, from which the dispensary sells THC and CBD [...]