It's not often I'm left speechless in the cannabis industry anymore. Once you've been in the industry a few years, you become desensitized to many of its more ...
Journalism professors will tell you to avoid cliches like the plague. But the fact is, cliches exist for a simple reason -- some of them are inescapable truths...
Erin Lapsansky is the owner and operator of Insight Cannabis Consulting -- an all in one consulting firm aimed at helping people create the cannabis businesses...
The Beard Bros have created their own wave in California's legal cannabis industry. While waiting for their cultivation licensed approval in 2018, they dove he...
Boy, it didn't take Cookies long to hop on the medical mushroom train. Berner, the king of Cookies, is combining his love of magic mushrooms and his cannabis b...
Cascadia Gardens has been producing fire out of Bellingham as long as I've been reviewing weed for the West Coast Weed Tour. This year I got my mitts on two of...
I'm not a vape cart guy. I rarely purchase them and when I do I'm usually disappointed. However, during the West Coast Weed Tour I got the opportunity to get a...
Live resin is been around for a while now and if you dab, it's probably one of your go-to options. Full Spec by Leafwerx has created something they call au jus...
Some cannabis has a smell that makes you do a double-take. The Purple Pie strain's sour berry aroma is one of those rare aromas that completely blew me away. T...
It's rare I take a dab and walk away completely speechless, but that's exactly what happened after I tried Echo Electuary's Mac 1 terps on the rocks. Evans Cre...
K.O. Mason is a rapper from the east side of Chicago that decided to take music seriously in 2015. A switch flipped in his head and he decided to take all of t...
YoRelly Stove is a young artist from the Pacific Northwest. He's just starting his musical journey and I can almost guarantee you've never heard a flow quite l...
The Cure Company is the in-house brand for City Compassionate Caregivers in downtown Los Angeles. Their claim to fame is cultivating Nipsey Hussle's strain the...
The Bakeréé cannabis dispensary began in medical cannabis. Alex Shreeve, a Seattle local, and Jigga started it all. Jigga is the legendary breeder from Cookie ...
Leafwerx has a special operation running in Wenatchee, Washington. They have one of the largest outdoor farms in the entire state and it's all going to be froz...
Eli Dyer is Brotha Nature. He's MC rooted in the Pacific Northwest but just recently broke new ground in Denver, Colorado. Brotha Nature has a wide range of mu...
Legal top-shelf cannabis is almost unaffordable in Los Angeles. So it was nice to find quality products for good prices when we visited the West Coast Cannabis...
Sen. Cory Booker is making sure drug reform isn't swept under the rug during this year's election cycle. He grilled the newest Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney ...
I've been dabbing for about six years and I thought I knew it all. But I was wrong. I took my first dab with the cold start method last week and I'm already co...
You hate Donald Trump... we get it. That's all anyone has been talking about for the last four years (pray to God it's not four more) and Que Tha Boss is sick ...
GreenRush is one of the biggest brands operating out of Snohomish County, Washington. Their operation has expanded massively over the years to include a proces...
SKöRD Marijuana is a Washington native cannabis brand that is quickly climbing the ranks of the top-shelf brands everyone is talking about. Their quality has s...
GreenRush has been in the game for a while and they're a brand that's been on a mission to bring top-shelf quality for middle-shelf prices and they're doing th...
You can't expect a whole lot when you buy a $5 gram. But at the same time, there's something incredibly alluring about a $5 gram. It's a low-risk proposition a...
My name is Jonathan Olsen-Koziol. I have a Bachelors Degree in Digital Journalism from Central Washington University. I'm a cannabis journalist and Head Editor here at Respect My Region. I have a deep passion for cannabis and storytelling and here I get to combine them. I want to grow as a storyteller, journalist, and cannabis writer; So I can continue to educate and entertain people with my writing.
If you have any tips/ideas about topics I should address or want to reach about anything, please comment or contact me directly. I appreciate all feedback.