Cannabis Zeroes: Steve Sarich

Jul. 31 | Interesting characters and colorful entrepreneurs like David Jablinske (grower and dispensary owner) and Wes Abney (publisher) are cannabis heroes, at least to us here at nwbud.com. So are the growers at NW Green Thumb. We love most (small scale) pot...

Cannabis Heroes: Steve Elliott

Jul. 30 | Steve Elliott is a marijuana writer and medical marijuana patient and a passionate consumer of all things cannabis. Here at nwbud.com we enjoy poking fun at his association with Village Voice Media and the column he writes for their Seattle Weekly that...

Cannabis Heroes: Rick Steves

Jul. 29 | Washington resident Rick Steves created a successful company by taking people to Europe, and the TV show spin-off of that project is seen by millions on PBS. And Rick Steves wants marijuana to be legal – it’s a bold move, or maybe not –...

Yes on I-502 Has Raised 2.5 Million. No on I-502 Has Raised $200.

Jul. 28 | It’s hard to imagine that die-hard marijuana industrialists and other cannabis types would be against Initiative 502, which will legalize recreational marijuana in Washington. Even harder to believe is how incompetent the No on 502 folks have been...

Pot Products We Like: The Deodorizer Bag

Jul. 27 | Back when we were putting out Seattle’s very first Medical Marijuana publication the good folks at Deodorizer Bag™ sent us a sample pack of their smell-proof charcoal lined velcro-sealed stash bags. Medical Marijuana is so over – it’s...

A Word About Blog Comments and How Stupid Most of Them Are

Jul. 27 | We launched nwbud.com in July and although we have no traffic to speak of yet we are appearing nicely on the search engines and attracting some comments on our posts. I hate blog comments – most of them make me feel like I’m back in school...

Seattle Slumlord’s Derelict Building Has Unique History

Jul. 26 | The property owned by Justin T. Hines Jr. at 3235 Rainier Avenue south in Seattle is in a state of disrepair. Boarded up and covered in graffiti, it is the definition of urban blight. Hines, who did not return multiple phone calls, inherited the property...

I-502 Supporter Dr. Gil Gives nwbud.com an Earful

Jul. 25 | Dr. Gilbert Mobley is someone we have attempted to slander here at nwbud.com or at least that’s what he told us in an angry email. Sure, we like to think we can be like Gawker on acid when it comes to insulting people, but rarely do they care, since...

Dr. Z: Cannabis is a Great Hospice Tool

Jul. 23 | I know a couple seniors who are in the last stages of dying and have no experience with cannabis. One of them has two different cancers and can’t read anymore because of a stroke. Another is in the last stages of Pancreatic cancer and is on Oxycontin. Dr....

Seattle Times: Peter Lewis and Rick Steves Give $1.25 Million to I-502

Jul. 23 | The Seattle Times reports that massive new cash has been donated to Initiative 502 by two Cannabis Heroes: Seattle area travel host Rick Steves and Insurance mogul Peter Lewis. There’s no byline on the piece but we can guess it was written by the...