Lucas is a cannabis connoisseur with over 20 years of experience and a sharp eye. He’s judged multiple California competitions, including the 2025 State Fair and Farmer’s Cup—where he was named Best Judge in 2024. His writing credits include featured blogs and dozens of in-depth strain reviews for platforms like Budist. Lucas combines his passions, and expertise with a deep respect for cannabis culture and history. He’s passionate about preserving California's legacy and the people behind it. Outside of cannabis, Lucas is equally devoted to art, music, movies, food, and wine—all experiences he believes pair beautifully with the plant.
After years of testing vaporizers, the Universal Baller replaced the author’s longtime daily driver in a week. Here’s why the $500 ball vape won.
Veterans say cannabis works. The VA won’t prescribe it—and some are still being punished for using it.
A pizza run, a stash of mystery drugs and a pair of college freshmen are enough to launch Pizza Movie into full freakout mode, but what makes it stick is how smartly it mutates the old stoner-comedy formula for a faster, stranger generation.
Cannabis doesn’t knock. It opens doors, loosens guards, and drags feelings into the light—whether you asked for it or not.
How Culinary & Cannabis founder Tamara Anderson is building luxury, trauma-informed cannabis spaces rooted in care and culture.
A Field Manual for the True Believer. An inversion in the spirit of Dr. Strangelove: confronting hard truths head-on by following bad logic to its
Cannabis doesn’t need to be productive, optimized, or medicinal to matter. Sometimes joy, laughter, and feeling human again are reason enough.
Peter Tosh’s defiance made him dangerous. A look at his life, assassination, and the legacy power tried to silence.
In 1989, the DEA raided 46 states in a blitz called Operation Green Merchant. Thirty-five years later, its shadow still hangs over legal cannabis.
How weed smuggler Gary Tovar fueled SoCal punk and helped create Coachella—an outlaw tale of smoke, sound, and rebellion.
Just as chakras map across the human body, so does the earth have its own spiritual hotspots. Places where energy gathers, where something bigger than
Cannabis isn’t just a drug anymore, and dispensaries aren’t just drug stores. But legal weed feels like it’s leaving the people and culture that built it behind. Can you gentrify a plant?
After years of testing vaporizers, the Universal Baller replaced the author’s longtime daily driver in a week. Here’s why the $500 ball vape won.
Veterans say cannabis works. The VA won’t prescribe it—and some are still being punished for using it.
A pizza run, a stash of mystery drugs and a pair of college freshmen are enough to launch Pizza Movie into full freakout mode, but what makes it stick is how smartly it mutates the old stoner-comedy formula for a faster, stranger generation.
Cannabis doesn’t knock. It opens doors, loosens guards, and drags feelings into the light—whether you asked for it or not.
How Culinary & Cannabis founder Tamara Anderson is building luxury, trauma-informed cannabis spaces rooted in care and culture.
A Field Manual for the True Believer. An inversion in the spirit of Dr. Strangelove: confronting hard truths head-on by following bad logic to its inevitable conclusion. Every year, the same parade of boardroom lifers, policy priests, donor-approved experts, and cannabis industry elites shuffle onto stages across California like it’s a loyalty program they can’t quit. And they all deliver
Cannabis doesn’t need to be productive, optimized, or medicinal to matter. Sometimes joy, laughter, and feeling human again are reason enough.
Peter Tosh’s defiance made him dangerous. A look at his life, assassination, and the legacy power tried to silence.
In 1989, the DEA raided 46 states in a blitz called Operation Green Merchant. Thirty-five years later, its shadow still hangs over legal cannabis.
How weed smuggler Gary Tovar fueled SoCal punk and helped create Coachella—an outlaw tale of smoke, sound, and rebellion.
Just as chakras map across the human body, so does the earth have its own spiritual hotspots. Places where energy gathers, where something bigger than us hums beneath the soil. Northern California, and the Emerald Triangle in particular, has always been one of those hotspots. When I first set out to write this, I thought I was writing a bleak
Cannabis isn’t just a drug anymore, and dispensaries aren’t just drug stores. But legal weed feels like it’s leaving the people and culture that built it behind. Can you gentrify a plant?
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