The Quiet Removal: What Gets Lost When Oklahoma Grows Are Shut Down
By James Bridges It doesn’t look like what people think it does. When a grow gets shut down, the photos
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Columns/Editorial
Fruit Ascension by Kind Origin Review | Flavor, Effects, and Oklahoma Appeal
By James Bridges Some strains hit like a dare. Others arrive like a conversation you didn’t know you needed. Fruit
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The Narrowing Space
By James Bridges Anxiety can be a bitch… The kind that lives out in front of you. The kind that
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Easy Head-to-Toe Habits to Boost Your Everyday Health
Lifestyle | Wellness Easy Head-To-Toe Habits to Boost Your Everyday Health Busy life. Heavy calendar. Too much advice. Here’s the
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Dam Site – Visitors Welcome
Opinion | Personal Essay Dam Site – Visitors Welcome By James Bridges Happiness and tragedy share a border so thin
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Crunch Berries, Somewhere Near the Blue River
By James Bridges | Herbage Magazine There’s a certain relief that comes with opening a jar of weed and realizing,
Read moreShe Found Me | MAC-1 LIT UP CANNABIS
By James Bridges I was done chasing MAC 1. At least, that’s what I kept telling myself. I’d found my
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Tip O’ The Hat: Papaya Mosa – DC Premier
by James Bridges Herbage Magazine No rankings. No scores. No pretending that I’m the final authority on anything. Just paying
Read moreLegalization doesn’t change who we are. It just stops punishing us for it.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Burn The Lies
I went all in on cannabis. RSO, flower, edibles—the whole arsenal. I rebuilt my diet, rebuilt my head, rebuilt my body. The same plant that the government spent decades demonizing turned out to be the only remedy that worked.
Cannabis didn’t kill me. It saved my life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Oklahoma SQ 837 Memo – Editorial
Friends, renegades, fellow travelers, and those that are sitting back watching the show, It’s late. I guess it could be
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Herbage Magazine Issue 68
Herbage Magazine Digital copy of Print issue number 68. Summer 2025
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The Glitch
James Bridges – Herbage Magazine A failure of leadership, plain and simple. Not just a technical issue…. The Thentia glitch
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Smelling the Data: How to Use Lab Results to Shop for Cannabis with Confidence
Vince Sandifer, M.S. Ever bought a strain that smelled incredible, but then it knocked you out when you were expecting
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Leon Hotchkiss Parole Denied
Life Behind Bars for Pot By James Bridges Now at age 68, Leon Hotchkiss remains behind bars in Alabama, spending
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Herbage Magazine-A Regional Powerhouse
A Regional Powerhouse By Brannan Bell Oklahoma grassroots magazine, Herbage Magazine, started in 2018, just before the passing of SQ788.
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NUMBER 60 – Letter From The Publisher
As I sit down to reflect on the remarkable journey that Herbage Magazine has embarked upon, a sense of pride
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The Company of One – Time to Eat!
By Ava Taylor Ah, Thanksgiving, that time-honored tradition of overindulgence and familial chaos, or as some might call it, “the
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What’s Missing? A Look at the Past…
…and Why Some People Relish It.” By James Bridges In recent years, Oklahoma has witnessed a profoundtransformation in its attitude
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The Feminine Divine: Alexandria Irons
Written by Brannan Bell Meet Alexandria Irons, Queen of the Sungrown. She has rich knowledge through diverse experiences and has
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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
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The Feminine Divine: Alana Stuart
Written by Branna Bell Meet Alana AKA Lala. She runs a women owned grow in Oklahoma City. She’s got a
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The Feminine Divine – Deanna Reed
Written by Brannan Bell Deanna is the co-founder of Origins of Spirit here in lOklahoma. She’s passionate about plant medicine,
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Q&A with HarvestFest
BY BRANNAN BELL
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Surviving in Stride: Cannabis Cancer Treatment for a Fighter
By Kristen Nadel @amywinemouse With a familiar namesake and a plethora of accomplishments, there is little James Dean Spradley has
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The Experience with Thunder Walker
The look on her face was one that seemed to be written in story pages. The story pages that would
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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.
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Mistakes & Happy Accidents: The Art of Cannabonsai in Oklahoma
By: Dr. Johnny Lightcap, Ph.D. A little over a year ago, I was the recipient of a targeted ad on
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Meet Lauren.She’s a native to Oklahoma and although her childhood wasn’t “normal”, she was happy. How we’re raised forever impacts
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Bryson’s Journey by Brannan Bell
Meet Bryson. He was born in Talihina, Oklahoma on July 22, 2010 and lives in Idabel, Oklahoma. Bryson has Tourettes
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A Toke of Wellness
In our time-squeezed world, it’s easy to neglect our well-being amid the demands of our busy lives. We often fall
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Audrey Pierce – Super Mom & Cultivator
Have you ever met someone and immediately sensed their genuine goodness? That’s the impression I got speaking with Audrey Pierce,
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Feminine Divine – Benèt Comeau
Meet Benét Comeau. She’s an intentional tattoo artist, a wife, and a mother who is well rounded with culture in
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Insight. Intuition. Trust.
Your June ‘23 reading is brought to you by Coley Oak Ash and Thorn 207 East Main in Shawnee. It’s
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April Showers Bring May Flowers
It may be time to shatter any illusions you have of yourself or others. Peel away these misconceptions about your
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Lettuce Learning by Chet Tucker
With a saturated cannabis market here in Oklahoma, it’s important to understand not only basic economics but also how your
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A Toke of Wellness
Delta 9 thc, commonly known as just THC, is the primary psychoactive compound in cannabis. It is responsible for most,
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Raise Your Highbration
Vibrational medicine is a wealth to add to anyone’s skill tree, be it a novice smoker, or a seasoned stoner!
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A Toke of Gratitude
The pace of life today is fast and stress is an inevitable part of that, but it doesn’t have to
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HERBAGE MAGAZINE MARCH ‘23
Digital edition of the MARCH 2023 print issue #51 of Herbage Magazine. Herb•age strives to bring you fresh content regularly.
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