Buds and Brawls 7:00 pm Feb. 8 Farmers Public Market 311 S. Klein Ave okcfarmersmarket.com 405-232-6506 $25-150 When Chase O’Grady was watching alongside hundreds during the cannabis kickboxing matches inside a tent in a front yard in Newcastle in December, he knew the concept was ready to be taken to the next level. On Feb. […]
cannabis news
Posted inNews
Cannabis cowboys
This month, Oklahoma sees its first homegrown cannabis championship. The inaugural Cowboy Cup is held at Tumbleweed Dance Hall, Lakeview and N. Country Club Road, in Stillwater, and organizers pledge it will be “Oklahoma’s premier cannabis championship, expo and harvest festival.” More than a dozen local musical acts, including Watermelon Slim, Taddy Porter, The Brothers […]
Posted inNews
Oklahoma grown
Oklahoma has already seen its first freeze, signaling that its first outdoor growing season is at a close. Under the state’s new medical cannabis law, both commercial growers and patients are allowed to cultivate crops outdoors with a few restrictions. Predictions for how THC-containing cannabis would fare in Oklahoma’s climate were wildly varied, with some […]
Posted inNews
Sungrown life
While cannabis might be as new of a crop for Guthrie Greenhouses as it is any other Oklahoma farmer, it has the advantage of having more than a century’s worth of experience in horticulture at its site. “Capital City Greenhouse first started in 1892 with the Furrow and Son Company, and they had it until […]
Posted inNews
Escalating quickly
Oct. 7, Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA) announced it had licensed its 200,000th patient. That is an average of 3,500 patients each week since OMMA started accepting patient applications. Based upon the state’s estimated population of 4 million, that means more than 5 percent of all Oklahomans are now card-carrying cannabis patients. In addition to […]
Posted inNews
Stable market
While prices in the Oklahoma medical cannabis market seemed to be dipping in the spring, six months later, they have held steady and, in some cases, have risen. A multitude of factors are responsible for the stagnation in sticker prices, according to dispensary owners and budtenders. Gary “Turbo” Webb manages Green Plus, 1120 S. Air […]
Posted inNews
Growing pains
David Donnell was one of the first Oklahomans to receive his commercial growing license but still has not been able to harvest a single crop. Euno Grow received its approval last September, and then Donnell went about getting the city of Piedmont to sign off on his remodeling permit. “We have 35 acres. It’s a […]
Posted inNews
Full cup
Both High Times and Lost Lakes Entertainment Complex chalk up Saturday’s missteps to the same factor: The first Oklahoma Cannabis Cup was more successful than anyone imagined it would be. High Times does not release attendance numbers for its Cannabis Cups, vice president of content Jon Cappetta said. But Lost Lakes managing partner Brad White […]