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Returning to the Portland Sports Complex in Portland, Maine, on October 16 and 17, the sixth annual Maine Cannabis Convention will feature a variety of vendors and exhibitors from throughout the state, including Cold War Organics, Atlas Seed, and MCR Labs. Sponsored by the New England Cannabis Network (NECANN), the convention, last held in 2019, is Maine’s largest...

In partnership with cultivator Revolutionary Clinics, Bud’s Goods dispensaries (with locations in Worcester and Abington, Massachusetts) recently launched an affordable cannabis product called Lil’ Bud’s—an eighth of an ounce of pre-packaged cannabis for only $30. Referred to by the company as “the people’s eighth,” the high-quality small buds feature the same cannabinoids and terpenes as many of their...

Visual art has always had the power to make us think critically about the world around us. Michael Cannistraro, founder of Canman Creations—an art and design firm in Medway, Massachusetts—uses his creative skills to draw attention to cannabis-related and other social issues, including the negative social and economic impacts of drug laws. Cannistraro, who describes his style as...

In 1915, wealthy Ohio businessman Edward Hamlin Everett, owner of The American Bottle Company, precursor to Owens Corning, built the Everett Mansion in Bennington, Vermont. Everett’s former 500-acre estate served as the campus of Southern Vermont College from 1974 until 2019, when the college closed. Not long after construction on the house was complete, Everett’s wife, Amy, died...

Boston Cannabis Tours offers visitors and locals a chance to learn how cannabis vapes, edibles, and tinctures are made, with a few free samples thrown in for good measure. Some tours even offer customers the opportunity to combine their cannabis sightseeing with other fun activities like craft brewery tours, shopping, and visiting historic places, such as the location...

If you’re looking for a unique summer getaway, consider a backpacking trip to the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Maine Woods Dark Sky Park. Last May the International Dark-Sky Association named this 75,000-acre parcel, located in the state’s 100-Mile Wilderness, an International Dark Sky Park—a status given to land that has scientific, educational, and cultural significance in addition to extraordinary...

With its lush forests and picturesque coastline, Maine has long been a favorite summer vacation destination for New Englanders. Camp Laughing Grass, a 17-acre cannabis-friendly camping resort located in Harrison, Maine, is home to four—soon to be five—cheerful cabins, and two “glamping” sites that come with full- or queen-size beds, linens, air conditioning, smoking apparatuses, indoor and outdoor...

From soap, to fabric, to plastics, hemp can be used to make a lot of products. But few people realize that hemp can be used as a building material. Hempcrete, made from hemp hurd (the wood-like core of the hemp stalk), lime, and sand, is lighter, less brittle, and cheaper than traditional concrete. It can also act as...

The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA), with locations in Somerville and Brookline, Massachusetts, is dedicated to bringing “the worst of art to the widest of audiences.” Home to a collection of more than 800 works of art, the museum is a one-of-a-kind gem, as it celebrates the labor of artists whose work...

The Massachusetts Pirates, a Worcester, Massachusetts-based professional indoor football team and member of the Indoor Football League (IFL), has partnered with Resinate, an adult-use cannabis retailer with dispensaries in Worcester and Northampton, Massachusetts. Resinate will be the presenting sponsor of the Pirates’ website and social media, and of the team’s after-parties, which follow all home games. The first-of-their-kind partners...