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Let me be clear right from the start: this is not a flex.This is a confession. Back then, I was just a kid in my early...
There’s a question I come back to often—one that feels especially relevant in an industry growing as fast, loud, and crowded as cannabis: Why do we...
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If you’d told me a year ago that a disabled guy with one working hand, bad hips, a limp, and a cane would be juggling YouTube,...
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Take a walk through Schenectady and count the smoke shops. Go ahead—I’ll wait. One on the corner. One mid-block. Sometimes two on the same stretch of...
By OG Strain — Strain’s Strain Reviews (Talk Cannabis) for The Plug’s Pages Magazine If you’ve ever walked into a smoke shop, you’ve seen it: rows...