Interview With Parker Edison

By: Nate Whitsell Instagram: @SDLovesHipHop SDLovesHipHop.com While you are caught up in your day-to-day, San Diego's Parker Edison is making moves or movies. One of SD's hardest working emcees is currently transforming a sample-based EP into a live band-based album, performing at any number of San Diego's most respected hip-hop venues, advocating for meaningful social change, or dabbling in film. I am...

Hortiscope

Hortiscope By: Medicinal Mike Boris @medicinal_mike ARIES Your grower’s instinct says that that plant shouldn’t have blue leaves, but the buds smell so good. Ignore instinct this just for this week. Something blue and wonderful is coming your way. Just have a little faith. TAURUS Your buddy on the left keeps getting skipped in the circle and you’re the lucky one who gets to...

Code Word: 420

420...a holiday for cannabis. Oh, what a day! The codeword 420 is a common term us stoners use to indicate it’s time to light up. This does not mean we look at the clock and say... "Hmm it’s 420, it’s time to smoke." It could be 11 in the morning with my roommate passing through the kitchen yelling 420, so...

The Hitman Coffee Shop

By Jessica Skinner and Bryan IG: @kushy_kitty & @sparked_interest_photography The Hitman Coffee Shop...how can I describe this? There is not just “one way." Walking into the establishment, I was greeted with bustling activity. Everyone was putting the final touches on the Big Night, Friday, April 7, 2017... opening night! As I am walking through, looking for someone to introduce myself to,...

Guayaki

By Kathleen McLean Organic drinks scare me. I can pinpoint the exact moment I felt organic drinks were not for me. It was a sunny afternoon, and I was visiting with my sister. She promised me that once I had a few sips of this organic raw Kombucha, it would be my new favorite beverage. Nothing could have been further...

Interview With Kahlee

By: Nate Whitsell @ SDLovesHipHop SDLovesHipHop.com Kahlee is the perfect representative of the independent entre-artist of 2017 and beyond. One who learns. Turns and teaches. Pursues sustainability. And remains fueled by his family, blood or otherwise. Kahlee has embraced the multiple-streams-of-income model as an independent hip hop artist and is more that willing to share his blueprint with others. The #FRESHstate rep...

Strain Review: Red Eye OG

Strain Name: Red Eye OG By: Nikki Walls 
Instagram: @Ms.MajorBlazer Grade: A+

 100% Indica 


THC Content: 20% - 28% From: Cannabiotix 

Appearance: Red Eye OG’s sticky buds are laden with resinous trichomes, as thin orange hairs ravage throughout them. This 2014 Cannabis Cup winner is a formidable contender among its adversaries. Feel: If loss of appetite is an issue, look no further. The...

Too-Big-To-Fail, Megabanks And Mexican Drug Cartels

By: Katie Burke Mexico was the top producer of marijuana for decades. However, with U.S allowing medical marijuana and recreational marijuana, it’s hurting the Mexican farmers. For the first time in history, Mexican farmers are now switching their crops to poppy seeds. Heroin is in high demand because of the abuse of painkillers, such as oxycontin. The more illegal the...

420 Games

Photo By: Brian Sweeney By: Jessica Skinner @kushy_kitty and Virginia Michel @theerealvv Sunshine, sports and cannabis. Could you have a better Saturday? Throw in an awesome group of people, and you have the 420Games. This is their second year on tour, bringing magic to 6 states. The driving force being to end the stigma of the “lazy stoner”. The 420Games introduced cannabis in a...

Performance Enhancing Drug

Photo By: Rick Kuehn By Seth MacKenzie IG: @culinaryanarchy culinaryanarchy.com Athletes by nature, are highly competitive and this is what pushes them past the normal human limits and into greatness. From time to time this desire to be the best can cause a person to make some rather unwise choices and this can lead to some unsportsmanlike behavior. Now in full disclosure, I’m not...