Here’s your chance to get high with City Pulse
Are you tired of simply reading about me smoking really great marijuana every week? Well, thanks to my new friends over at Sensi Magazine, I now have the ability to show you instead.
Are you tired of simply reading about me smoking really great marijuana every week? Well, thanks to my new friends over at Sensi Magazine, I now have the ability to show you instead.
Sorry, stoners. I’m taking this column in a bit of a different direction this week to shed some much-needed light on a statewide ballot proposal that just had its language approved last week by the state’s Board of Canvassers. It’s called the Michigan Initiative for Community Healing.
If you couldn’t already tell from the pleasant odor, there’s a bit of cannabis cultivation magic happening inside that old automotive service station on Hosmer Street across from Art’s Pub.
Decisions about procuring the right cannabis can be very personal, and if you’ve ever purchased edibles from a dispensary, you might be familiar with that feeling of wondering what’s inside these tasty treats that make them so great — or, in some cases, perhaps not so great.
There’s certainly no shortage of dank cannabis products on the shelves at pot shops across Greater Lansing this year. And with so many new strains, edibles and concentrates constantly hitting the market this month, I’ve truly struggled to find enough time to write about them all. I can’t even finish a bag of weed nowadays without spotting something else out there worth trying.
It’s estimated that there were more than 40,000 people across the country still locked up behind bars last year for nonviolent, marijuana-related crimes — including hundreds of inmates in Michigan, where recreational pot has been legal for adult use for longer than three years.
Some of my closest childhood friends are hockey players. My family is also filled with hockey fanatics. So, when they heard that I had a chance to interview the great Darren McCarty last week, there was a bit of jealousy in the air — especially because I don’t really care about sports.
The product reviews featured in this column over the last year have placed way too much of an emphasis on the THC content of any given cannabis product, which I’ve recently learned plays far less of a role in determining the dankness of your bud and the richness of the resulting high.
Over the last two years, this weekly column has afforded me the opportunity to sample hundreds of different cannabis products from every pot shop in Greater Lansing. Most of them have been good. Some have been great. But only a few products have been truly outstanding.
For as much time as I’ve spent browsing the shelves at local pot shops and reporting on industry trends, you’d think that I would have a pretty good idea on how to grow my own marijuana — especially because it’s legal in Michigan to harvest up to 12 plants at home.