Legalization doesn’t make Oklahomans something new, it just stops punishing us for who we’ve always been: honest, independent, hard-working people who deserve the freedom to choose a plant over a pill.
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Cannabis and Guns – The American Contradiction
The Supreme Court will decide whether cannabis users can legally own firearms, a case that could redefine the intersection of personal freedom, gun rights, and cannabis culture in America.
The Truth About “Cannabis Deaths” in Oklahoma: The Numbers Don’t Add Up So Who Benefits?
Oklahoma recorded 179 alcohol-related deaths last year — and zero from cannabis. Yet “cannabis-related” still makes headlines. The truth? The state doesn’t even track THC impairment, and the data that does exist tells a very different story. James Bridges digs into the missing math, the media spin, and the profits behind the fear.
Cowboy Cup 2025: Culture, Community & the Festival Stage Lineup
Herbage Magazine joins forces with the Cowboy Cup once again celebrating cannabis culture, community, and craft at Tulsa Expo Square. From Safety Meeting’s hard-driving bluegrass to Henna Roso’s soulful activism and MOGA Family Band’s eclectic finale, the Festival Stage lineup is proof that Oklahoma cannabis is more than an industry, it’s a movement. Discover the full lineup and learn how your brand can stand out in the Herbage Cowboy Cup Special Edition.
Happiness Has Nothing to Do With Gold
Money buys distractions, not happiness. True peace comes when you give yourself authentically to the people you love.
Meet The Steppers: Oklahoma’s Jamgrass Outlaws
The Steppers aren’t just another bluegrass band—they’re three friends from Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, who built their sound on porches, barns, and beer-soaked jam sessions. Mixing tradition with cosmic jamgrass energy, they’ve taken their high-octane acoustic storm from hometown dives to festival stages across the map. Gritty, joyful, and unpredictable—The Steppers are dangerous in all the best ways.
Hidden Gems: Ice Cream Man by Well Rooted Genetics
In a market drowning in mediocrity, I stumbled into Beyond the Pines and found salvation. Ice Cream Man. Sticky as sin. Terps that hit like a gas-soaked berry patch on fire. Proof that real weed still exists.
Dry Standards – The Death of the Cure
Oklahoma cannabis has gone from craft celebration to bone-dry corporate mids. Overregulation, price-chasing, and federal rescheduling pressure are killing the cure and pushing true smokers back to the black market.
Find Your Nearest SQ 837 Petition Location
Find out where to sign the SQ 837 petition in Oklahoma. Use our interactive map to locate petition sites near you and join the movement for cannabis reform.
Oklahoma’s Ballot Battles: What SQ 836 Means for SQ 837 and Cannabis Reform
Oklahoma’s Supreme Court just cleared State Question 836 to begin signature gathering and paused new restrictions on citizen-led petitions. Here’s why that matters, and what it means for SQ 837, the cannabis legalization measure.
The High Road: Finding the Groove in Tradition and Friendship | Bluegrass on Bell
Born from backyard jams and Oklahoma roots, The High Road is the band that sneaks up and stays with you—mandolin fire, bass groove, banjo bite, and soulful flatpicking stitched together by friendship. Meet the players, catch their story, and spin some tunes.
Patients for Safe Access of Oklahoma: Fighting for Clean Cannabis in the Sooner State
A grassroots patient group is raising the bar for medical cannabis in Oklahoma. With over 200 products independently tested, Patients for Safe Access of Oklahoma is fighting for transparency, accountability, and safer medicine for patients statewide.
Rooted in Fire -The Rise of Fire Mountain Farms
Fire Mountain Farms isn’t chasing hype—it’s building something real, one grow cycle at a time. From backyard beginnings to five flower rooms and a nitrogen-flushed packaging line, their story is equal parts grit, mistakes, and persistence. This is Oklahoma cannabis stripped of glamour, rooted in fire, and rising strong.
The High Potential: Cannabis as an Underrated Super Plant
Cannabis is more than a late-night pastime—it’s medicine, building material, and an engine for local jobs. From easing chemo side effects to shaping eco-friendly “hempcrete” homes, the plant keeps proving its worth. In Oklahoma alone, thousands of careers have sprung up around the industry. Is cannabis the world’s most versatile super plant?
Herbage Magazine – Issue 69 (Harvest Festival Edition)
Herbage Magazine – Issue 69Harvest Festival Edition Cover Story with Fire Mountain Farms. SEE VIDEO INTERVIEW The Harvest Festival is more than just a cannabis cup—it’s Oklahoma’s state of the union for the plant. In this issue, we cover the growers, the music, the madness, and the magic that make Harvest Fest an annual pilgrimage…
Small Shifts, Big Wins: Daily Strategies to Look and Feel Your Best
Wanting to look and feel your best isn’t about chasing perfection—it’s about finding rhythms that ground you, energize your day, and make life feel easier. Small shifts like science-backed morning routines, simple eating adjustments, exploring cannabis for calm, daily stretching, and improving posture and rest can add up to powerful transformations. Feeling your best doesn’t demand radical change overnight, just practical, consistent moves that reconnect you with your body and well-being.
Cannabis Patients and Guns: Oklahoma Senate Says You Can Have Both—Responsibly
Last week, Oklahoma’s Senate sent a strong, unanimous message—45 to 0—in favor of protecting medical cannabis patients’ rights. Senate Bill 39, now headed to the House of Representatives, aims to make one thing clear: being a medical marijuana patient doesn’t mean you have to give up your Second Amendment rights. Filed by Sen. Julie Daniels,…
Leon Hotchkiss Parole Denied
Life Behind Bars for Pot By James Bridges Now at age 68, Leon Hotchkiss remains behind bars in Alabama, spending decades imprisoned for growing pot. The board extended his next chance for a hearing until 2028. This is the maximum extension that could be given by the system. He’ll be 73-years-old. In the American justice…
Herbage Magazine Issue 60 – December 2023
Oklahoma’s Evolving Cannabis Laws
A Closer Look at Recent Regulatory Actions Herbage Magazine In recent years, Oklahoma has emerged as a significant player in the medical cannabis landscape in the United States. The state’s medical cannabis program is known for its permissiveness, attracting attention for its liberal policies and rapid growth. However, this growth has come with its share…
HERBAGE MAGAZINE Issue #58 October 2023
Your Ultimate Source for Cannabis Culture and Education Welcome to Herbage Magazine, where we’re all about diving deep into the world of cannabis culture and medical marijuana. I’m James Bridges, the CEO & Publisher, and I’m thrilled to have you with us on this journey. Our Mission: Bringing Cannabis to the Forefront At Herbage Magazine,…
Herbage Magazine #56 August 2023
Digital edition of the AUGUST 2023 print issue #56 of Herbage Magazine. Herb•age strives to bring you fresh content regularly. We cover a wide range of cannabis culture and medical marijuana-related issues from around the state of Oklahoma and beyond. In other words, It is our mission to be the voice of the growing cannabis…
Movie Night
Dank and Discs Round 2
Time for Round 2! Cowboy Cup is bringing you another round of Dank and Discs on June 24th at beautiful Chandler Park in Tulsa, Okla! Join us for a day of fun disc golfing and networking with other industry professionals. This round is sponsored by Best Dispensaries in Tulsa where the man, Chico himself will…
Herbage Magazine #54 June 2023
The Feminine Divine
Nobody Puts Tessy in a Corner; From Crunching Numbers to Liberating Oklahomans, a Woman’s Story of the Reclamation of Her Own Power by Jessi Lane, Patient Advocate Tessy Copeland-Dukes, EA is a trusted, kind-hearted woman with a take-no-bull disposition. She understands that you can catch more flies with sugar than you can vinegar. She strives…
Survive To Educate
By James Bridges I pulled around the corner of the large empty parking lot. It was mid-afternoon. I could barely stand the sweltering heat radiating from that giant gas globe in the sky. I needed something cold. Something with some sort of quench at the end of it. There was a coffee lounge and an…
Cover Artist – Sean Vali
By Sean Vali I get so hypnotized when I’m drawing or painting. everything around me can disappear in a deep State of Trance that can really place you inside of the moment. Creating for me is trying to capture a vision that’s popped into my head and attempting to translate it into a physical form….
HERBAGE MAGAZINE AUGUST 2022 ISSUE 45
Digital edition of the AUGUST 2022 print issue of Herbage Magazine. Herb•age strives to bring you fresh content regularly. We cover a wide range of cannabis culture and medical marijuana-related issues from around the state of Oklahoma and beyond. In other words, It is our mission to be the voice of the growing cannabis industry…
It’s The Little Things
By Charles “Uncle Chuck” Duncan The term “everyday things” refers to something which happens or is used every day. We tend to make those items not important and make big things like vacation trips and anniversaries our “big ticket” items. Photo-opts and scrapbook fodder. Posed grins and smiles to complete the experience. Ironically, we spend…
Feminine Divine – Ebony Jones
Keeping the Faith; a Woman’s Story of Generational Resilience and Healing through Curated Experiences and Sweet Potato Pie by Jessi Lane, Patient Advocate Ebony Jones, of 8Twenty8, is a cannabis Pastry Chef paving the way for other people of color following her path. “Being one of the few known Black women in the Oklahoma cannabis…
Perspectives
(Taking a look at Neurodivergence and Cannabis) By Kathy Barker Have you ever missed a stair in the dark? It’s like your heart stood up too fast, whilst being in the process of a dizzying white out blindness, before pulling on your lungs for support. SO. naturally, your chest tightens and you start sweating because…
The Chronissuer – DOC FERGUSON
Time To Dab Reviewed by Hopper Written by Pamela Jayne If you would have told me 30-years-ago, 20-years-ago, 10-years-ago…hell even 5-years-ago, that I’d be setting up a cannabis grow operation with intentions of it to be tracked by law enforcement, I would have bet money that would never happen…but here we are. Fresh out of…
ABOUT THE COVER
JUNE/JULY 2022 Shannon Seitter worked in conjunction with “The Happy Festival” to create this month’s cover of Herbage Magazine. Shannon began a career in art at an early age self teaching to sketch..Shannon was inspired by the junior high art teacher. Shannon watched her paint across canvas and was awestruck by her ability to bring…
HERBAGE MAGAZINE JUNE/JULY 2022 ISSUE 44
HERBAGE MAGAZINE MAY/JUNE 2022 ISSUE 43
The Feminine Divine
Feel This the Holy Energy Making a Planetary Impact By Jessi Lane Patient Advocate Photography by Justen Christensen Asma (“Ess-mah”) is a Palestinian Refugee, an entrepreneur, and a military spouse. She is an advocate for holistic healing and mindful living- a fierce protector of her family, of her personal goal and of our planet. She…
THE CANNXIETY CHRONICLES PART 4…
Charles “Uncle Chuck” Duncan You know those commercials that show a man on one side of the screen and a woman on the other and at the end they let you know that he makes much more pay than her? Have you ever wondered to yourself, why are they telling me? It’s not like I…
Freedom Flower
By Chet Tucker At what point did we wake up to realize that we’ve been indoctrinated into a system that curbs our natural instincts of being at one with ourselves and our provider, earth? Who decided that a truancy officer could enforce a dictated governmental (govern mental states) school systems that box our thinking and…
Could Raw Cannabis Be The New Superfood?
Written by Dr. Pepper Hernandez ND, Ph.D., CTC Award-winning, Board Certified Holistic Health Professional So did you know that cannabis is a superfood? I have been well aware of that starting over a decade ago when I started juicing leaves for health and wellness benefits. Cannabis is an incredibly unique plant that contains over 400…
The Andrew Lopez Story
By Michael Kinney By all accounts, Andrew Lopez seems to be living the ideal life. The retired Army Staff Sgt., who spent 22 years in the military, is married with five kids and three grandchildren. Almost nothing brings a smile to his face more than when talking about his family, except maybe his passion for…
We Gotta Take the Power Back
The Killer Whale on the Frontlines with State Questions 818 and 819 by Jessi Lane Patient Advocate Are you ready for the rec, retroactivity, abolishment, and rebirth that is about to be the Oklahoma Cannabis Medical and Right To Use Acts? If ever we needed a call to arms, this is it. Zack De La…
The Chronisseur – Essential Flowers
Words by Pamela Jayne Review by Hopper Photo by Ron Eberhart And we’re back! I want to start by giving a huge shout out to everyone I saw and smoked with on 4/20 at The Brickhouse block party. It was a perfect day, with nothing but good vibes and great, likeminded people at a chill…
Compliance In A Country Of Cannabis
Country Cannabis By Michael Kinney When Donnie Pyatt was asked to describe Country Cannabis, some of the first words he uttered were ‘veteran-owned’. As the Chief Compliance Officer of the Oklahoma-based dispensary, he could have used a myriad of different phrases, but that seemed to be the one that was most important to him. It’s…
Tarostrology Gemini Season
By Anna Ervin May 21, 2022 – June 21, 2022 Though I write this editorial nearly a month before it’s published, I can already see how the cards for Gemini season deliver unlimited possibilities. Many of the signs drew messages that resonate with their individual characteristics. For example, I pulled the King of Wands for…
Medicated Stir-Fry
By Anna Ervin serves: 4-5 I dosage: 15-20mg per serving Ingredients Infused Sauce • ½ C coconut aminos • 2 Tbsp maple syrup • 1 Tbsp infused olive oil (1 used 50mg) • 1 Tbsp toasted sesame oil • 1 tsp rice vinegar Stir-Fry • 1 C quinoa or rice (cooked) • 1 sweet potato…
The House Bills of 2022
Change on the Horizon of the Oklahoma Cannabis Industry Landscape By Jessi Lane The Oklahoma cannabis industry is preparing to buckle down in light of the May 26 roll out of METRC, Oklahoma’s contracted seed-to-sale and tagging system, as well as the introduction of several new House Bills designed to tighten up our Medical Marijuana…
Dr. Carl Hart
A Scientist on a Mission to Spread Knowledge in Support of Health and Happiness of Drug Users by Jessi Lane, Patient Advocate Jessi Lane, Patient Advocate is a writer and Oklahoma cannabis industry professional since 2018. She is a Certified Cannacian III and Trichome Institute Certified Cannabis Consultant with a “full spectrum” Postpartum Wellness background….
The Budtender Diaries – Building Trust
by Anna Ervin I think that “I don’t know” might be some of the most unappealing words you could hear come out of a budtender’s mouth. Sure, we all have to use them at times, and hopefully we follow up with a quick “but let me find out for you,” before proceeding to dig…
Tarostrology: Taurus Season
April 20, 2022 – May 21, 2022 by Anna Ervin When I think of Taurus season, I picture myself visiting a local lake as a kid and absolutely covering myself in Oklahoma’s cool, red mud. This is one of my favorite times of the year, and not just because opening day falls on my favorite…