General

The underground manufacture and sale of recreational drugs is a necessarily dirty one. Cartels and kingpins do not get rich from consideration for the physical safety of their competition, nor for the health of the people who use their goods. The selling of these products is not limited to the black market, however, and the proliferation of ‘legal highs’ such as synthetic marijuana in recent years illustrates this well.  Continue reading →

Its 2am, your smoking buddy has passed out, you go to the bathroom and look in the mirror and see you have really red eyes. Although it differs depending on the individual, the type of weed and the circumstances, sooner or later most regular cannabis smokers will see a reflection of themselves and wonder if they hit that last joint a bit too hard.  Continue reading →

If you’re used to rolling joints, you’ll have a head start on learning how to roll a blunt, but even if you haven’t, it’s OK.  Anyone can learn how to roll a blunt it just takes a bit of knowledge and a bit of practice.  Here’s a step-by-step guide. Continue reading →

Take a moment to think of the various bits of debris and detritus that a committed weed smoker will amass even in the course of a single year. Rolling papers of various sizes and flavours, grinders in plastic or metal with finely filtering crystal catching compartments, science lab-esque dabbing tools. And that’s to say nothing about the more frivolous items like rolling mats, novelty lighters and elaborately decorated baggies.  Continue reading →

To some it’s a comforting symbol of a free and relaxed lifestyle, an open secret that stoners everywhere can recognise. To others it represents the cringier side of weed culture, bringing to mind amateurish YouTube videos that invariably have the iconic number accompanied by more explosions, air horns and garish colours than decency should allow. Regardless of whether it is used by teenager tokers or referenced in pieces of marijuana legislation, '420' has solidified its place in the stoner world. Yet for all its infamy it seems that all but the most inquisitive cannabis fans are oblivious of where this simple number actually comes from. C...

Learning how to roll a joint is straightforward and this guide will take you through the entire process from start to finish. Continue reading →

What is kief? If you randomly strawpolled a group of random people and asked them to list words they associate with marijuana, we doubt that the word kief would come up too often. On the other hand, if you went up to a group of weed connoisseurs and asked them “what is kief?”, they would almost certainly be able to tell you all about it and explain why kief is so great. Continue reading →