Blog - Honest Marijuana

By Anthony Franciosi

The Official Colorado Recreational Marijuana Resource Guide

Are you every bit as excited about the Colorado recreational marijuana buzz as we are? Are you planning a pot pilgrimage? Are you completely info overwhelmed too?

We scoured the internet and talked to our “go-to sources” to provide a comprehensive guide on the Colorado recreational marijuana scene just for you. We talked to our friends Johnny Hempseed, an anonymous Colorado native, grower, dispensary owner and cannasseur in Denver CO as well as Kevo who grows ganja for CareGiversForLife a medical and recreational marijuana dispensary in Cherry Creek CO for some local tips on how to get high and have a great time in Colorado!

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By Anthony Franciosi

Cannabis Concentrates: A Simple Guide

Glazed reddening-eyes, rasta hat, and a spliff bursting with green leaves used to be the pop culture image of marijuana users. But as our collective culture embraces our new images of cannabis users, many methods of consumption and production are evolving and some finding a revival. This article will introduce you to the various forms of cannabis concentrates that you’re likely to encounter.

When you hear the word “concentrate” most people may think “focus”, or perhaps the fruit juice they drank as a child. But times are changing. It’s now a popular form of consuming cannabis. Keeping this in mind, let’s take a look at the some old favorites and explore some new exciting ways to consume marijuana through cannabis concentrates.

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By Anthony Franciosi

What’s It Like To Be A Budtender

“Budtender” isn’t exactly the term that many of them prefer to use for themselves. Many of them consider it a tongue and cheek title. Katie, a budtender in Colorado tells us that many budtenders prefer to be called “dispensary agents.” Out of towners seeking a recreational toke smirk at the term every time they hear it according to Mia Jane who blogs about tending buds in Colorado.

Budtenders as people are as diverse as the strains they sell but the best of them all take their work seriously and the last thing that any budtender worth their sativa…or indica would ever want for the public to assume is that they get paid to slack off and smoke all day.

Some marijuana dispensaries in California won’t allow their budtenders to smoke at all. Some won’t allow their budtenders to smoke during rush hours if they are concerned with maintaining a professional image. Other Cali dispensaries will only allow their employees to medicate with edibles or smokeless concentrates and some dispensary owners in California can and will allow their budtenders to smoke while at work budtending.

Smoking on premise at a dispensary is illegal in Colorado however. So forget about the lazy budtender stoner stereotype.

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By Anthony Franciosi

The Rise of Organic Marijuana: What is Your Marijuana Made Of?

Are you as excited about the rise of legalized, honestly grown organic marijuana as we are!?! Are you as excited about the rise in quality and variety of marijuana as we are? Do your eyes enjoy looking at the different shapes, colors and textures of marijuana? Do you fondle and squeeze marijuana buds while you sniff and compare their aromas exactly the same way you might with a piece of fruit or a vegetable before purchasing it from the grocery store? You will be by the time you finish reading this post if you aren’t already!

Perhaps you’re understandably feeling a bit overwhelmed and anxious at the moment about trying something you haven’t tried before in the midst of all of this new, confusing and sometimes contrary cannabis information. This post will help you learn how to spot the good, the bad and the moldy kinds of marijuana before you spend any of your money and smoke them!

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By Anthony Franciosi

The Real Reasons Weed Is Illegal

Marijuana, pot, weed, cannabis, the green monster, the salad, the good stuff. It has many names and has been the cornerstone of many a heated debate.

23 states have now legalized weed in some form or another and four states and the District of Columbia have (finally, yay) legalized weed for recreational use.

But weed has always been on the long and winding road from cultural staple, to labeled as toxic, to recreational to illegal, to kind of legal and finally (hopefully) legalization for over a hundred years. People have been fighting to get pot legalized since the 1970s. And we thought prohibition was a bitch, sheesh.

There have been many justifications for keeping cannabis illegal in the United States. The government has called it a “gateway drug,” we’ve likened it to heroin and cocaine, we’ve kept our children from it, warning them not to become “potheads.”

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