Posts by Shelby Pierce

11 Jun

Featured, Weed

BLOTTER: ‘I don’t smoke weed’ says man with marijuana under his car seat

• June 11, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

'DEFUNIAK SPRINGS — A DeFuniak Spring man was arrested for marijuana possession, although he told a deputy he doesn’t smoke weed. A ...

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11 Jun

Featured, Marijuana News

Which Weed Is A Downer? Examining The Indica vs Sativa Dichotomy

• June 11, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Which weed is a downer, you may ask? Nowadays, even your dad can tell you that indica strains make you tired, and sativa strains wake y...

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11 Jun

Featured, Marijuana News

Blundering Gardener: You may weed your garden. I ‘edit’ mine

• June 11, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

My friend Marge Hols came by today. She wrote a gardening column for the Pioneer Press for many years before retiring, which was when I...

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11 Jun

Featured, weed news

This Weed in News, June 9: Hemp, Vets, and Federalism

• June 11, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Monterey Bud: US Senators Are All Aboard the Hemp Train, While Trump is Aboard the Legalization Train For Now The U.S. Senate passed h...

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11 Jun

Featured, weed news

GOOD TO GROW: Garden Weed Control

• June 11, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - but that's not always the case when it comes to weeds. Spurge, bindweed, and puncturevine are co...

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11 Jun

Featured, Life Style

deadCenter Film Festival showing medical marijuana documentary ‘Weed the People’ as Oklahomans prepare to vote on State Question 788

• June 11, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

On June 26, Oklahomans will vote on whether to allow medical marijuana. Today and Sunday, the deadCenter Film Festival will screen t...

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08 Jun

Featured, Weed

Weed of the Month: Stinging Nettle

• June 8, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

A couple of years ago, I was strolling through an herb garden and pushed aside a tall clump of leafy green stems overhanging the path. ...

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08 Jun

Featured, weed news

Why We Weed

• June 8, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

We hear it when we release our annual cannabis issue — Isn't every issue the cannabis issue? — and we hear it at some point in just abo...

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08 Jun

Featured, Marijuana Growing

Organic Farmers Are Using Flamethrowers to Weed Their Fields

• June 8, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

CAROLYN OLSON HAS A ROW-CROP farm in southwest Minnesota. There, she grows organic corn, soybeans, and alfalfa, among other crops. As w...

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08 Jun

Featured, Weed

Chris Weed’s street art whimsy

• June 8, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

In some ways, little has changed in the last 20 years for local artist Christopher Weed. He lives in the same house just outside downto...

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