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Marijuana Self-Medication During the AIDS Epidemic

Marijuana Self-Medication During the AIDS Epidemic

Zohar Wacks June 12, 2025

The AIDS epidemic has a history of denial of treatment on every level of medicine. Doctors would refuse service to patients with HIV, medical journals showed intense bias towards HIV and AIDS research,...

Budtender Spotlight: Stephen Wildermuth

Budtender Spotlight: Stephen Wildermuth

Savannah Brown June 12, 2025

Stephen Wildermuth, for the readers at home who don’t know, what is a Bear in the gay community? Let’s see, how do I say this politely? A “Bear” is a gay male with some fur and usually with a...

Social Science of Social Smoking

Social Science of Social Smoking

Noa Schwartz June 12, 2025

Stoners everywhere spend much of their social lives perfecting their ideal joint rotation. There’s something about sharing a bong rip with a friend or passing a spliff with roommates that simply can’t...

Budtender Spotlight: Roxanne Maund

Budtender Spotlight: Roxanne Maund

Savannah Brown April 14, 2025

What do you like about working at New Millennium? I love the culture there — we really kind of pride ourselves on being the “friendly shop” in Eugene. Most of the time, our customers come in and...

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Women in Cannabis

Javay Frye-Nekrasova April 14, 2025

When you look at the cannabis industry broadly, it is mostly men that you see, be it at the dispensary, on the farm, or leading brands, and while this is true, women are largely involved in the cannabis...

From Muggles  to Reefer Man

From Muggles to Reefer Man

Savannah Brown February 17, 2025

In today’s music world, cannabis easily tops the charts. We all know that drug references appear frequently in popular music, but through just a quick skim of studies done on the subject or scrolling...

The Power of Cannabis: Medicine, Music, and Community Within Simply Sol Farm

The Power of Cannabis: Medicine, Music, and Community Within Simply Sol Farm

Javay Frye-Nekrasova February 17, 2025

Cannabis is a powerful plant. It has a multitude of uses: it inspires, it connects, and it heals. The power of cannabis and all its potential is at the heart of BIPOC-owned farm Simply Sol. Simply Sol...

Daquon Buckhannon of Holy Grail Dispensary

Budtender Spotlight: Daquon Buckhannon

Javay Frye-Nekrasova February 17, 2025

Do you ever just interact with someone and then think about how cool they would be to be friends with? That is how I felt when I first met Daquon Buckhannon of Holy Grail. We met back in October of 2024...

Hannah Youmans, a budtender who has been in the marijuana industry for about two and a half years, poses for a portrait inside TJ’s on Willamette, the dispensary she works at, on Feb. 12, 2024. Originally from New York, Youmans came to Oregon with her younger sister, whom she had custody of, in search of a better situation. “I did not have the best childhood, and I wanted her to have a better childhood,” she said. “She was 14 when we moved here, and that was the end of 2020. Right in the middle of Covid.”

Budtender Photo Series

Alex Hernandez and Pierce Baugh October 25, 2024

One might be donning heart-shaped glitter glasses, red locks, and a confident, knowing smile; one might smile at you with the utmost warmth; another could look at you with a distant gaze, the middle man...

Cannabis in Sports

Cannabis in Sports

Akila Wickramaratna April 17, 2024

Athletes continuously seek ways to enhance their performance, whether that be high intensity training, watching highlight reels, or dietary plans to help growth and recovery. While they are not all “athletes,”...

Professor's Perspectives on Cannabis

Professor’s Perspectives on Cannabis

Armando Ramirez April 16, 2024

In a way, cannabis is what led Charlie Deitz to the career he has today. Receiving his master’s and Ph.D. in communication and media studies at the University of Oregon, Deitz recently started his...

Navigating the Intersection of Cannabis Culture with Personal Identity

Navigating the Intersection of Cannabis Culture with Personal Identity

Lizzy Solorzano March 19, 2024

As students come to Eugene, they’re immediately introduced to its culture: They witness the green that exists everywhere, the trees, the grass and the flower. It’s hard to miss the cannabis community...

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