If you’re looking to take your green thumb to the next level, marijuana might be the crop for you. Strange Leaf Dispensary, 4700 NW 39th St., currently carries two brands of cannabis seeds. On the low end, one package of three seeds sells for $35, while the female seeds in a five-pack of another brand […]
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The High Culture: Green market
The market price for a gram of medical marijuana was through the roof on opening day. A month in, prices have stabilized — for now. The reality of what the market will bear is still unknown and will be until next year. Prices at Oklahoma City dispensaries already doing business are averaging $10 to $25 […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Burnt offerings
Life thrives on symmetry, and if our endlessly annoying End Times cacophony of hysteria has taught us anything, it’s that every point has a counterpoint. You want to protect your kids from contracting diphtheria? Governor-elect Kevin Stitt has a different idea. On June 26, an overwhelming majority of Oklahomans voted to legalize medical marijuana, and […]
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New sooners
By Friday afternoon, word has gotten around and business at Cannabis Aid is booming. Customers are hit with the rich scent of fresh marijuana as they walk through the doors. While signing in, they crane their necks to see the contents of the glass jars like they’re attempting to get a rare glimpse at an […]
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New leaves
J. Blake Johnson is dressed in a black T-shirt and his jeans are tucked into a loose pair of high-tops. His hair blows across his face in the Saturday afternoon wind on a bar patio and he looks like the kind of guy who will be taking the stage with his band later that night. […]
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Hashed out
If an ordinance introduced to Oklahoma City Council members Aug. 28 passes later this month, when the council votes on it, Oklahoma County Jail will no longer hold prisoners for possession of marijuana or marijuana paraphernalia. “This is a cause for celebration,” Ward 2 council member Ed Shadid said of the ordinance introduced by Oklahoma […]
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Home grown
Mary Najar remembers the day before she and her husband opened their hemp oil and cannabidiol (CBD) products store in Paseo Arts District in the fall of 2017. Their store would be the first brick-and-mortar store to sell CBD oil in Oklahoma City. But it wasn’t nerves about opening day that kept Najar up at […]
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Next episode
Zig-Zag is the brand name of a well-known line of rolling papers, but it is also a term that could describe the sharp twists and turns in the ever-evolving saga of medical marijuana rule implementation that has unfurled since voters approved State Question 788 in June. The Oklahoma State Board of Health met Aug. 1 […]
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Finding reform
Lost in June’s eyebrow-raising voter turnout numbers for the approval of medical marijuana and the controversial amendments to the law added by the Oklahoma State Medical Board days later is much talk of the provisions for decriminalization of marijuana possession outlined in State Question 788. Chris Moe — a vocal SQ788 advocate who works closely […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Errant Ezell
Like most Oklahomans, your attitude toward yet another installment of the medical marijuana saga is probably “puff, puff, pass,” but you might not have heard the latest drama. Lucky for Chicken-Fried News, Oklahoma is full of drama. That’s what keeps us covered in thick, spicy fry batter so we can stay tasty. Anyway, we just […]