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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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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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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Tip O’ The Hat: Blueberry Muffin – NUGZ Premium | Grassfire
Tip O’ The Hat Blueberry Muffin – NUGZ Premium | Grassfire LLC 3.5g Flower • Tested by Steep Hill THC:
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The Great Misrepresentation of Quality
By James Bridges | Herbage Magazine I left the dispensary looking forward to getting home.Nothing dramatic. Super Boof, for me,
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Sugarleaf Co Hits The Brakes
By James Bridges | Herbage Magazine Lacey and I were already halfway committed to the urgency of being out. Shoes
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Built by Listening: Inside LitUp’s Craft Extraction Process in Oklahoma
Built by Listening. Fueled by Craft. Driven by Care. By James Bridges | Herbage Magazine LitUp didn’t start with a
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On a Day Like Today | Megalodon Cannabis | Pink Runtz
By James Bridges Best of Herbage Winners: Megalodon Cannabis took home major honors in the Best of Herbage — Oklahoma
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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Why We Gather – Connection, Legacy, and Intrigue
By James Bridges | Herbage Magazine We show up to remember why the hell we started. We may flex our
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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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.
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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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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.
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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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Thunder Walker
Rolling in Diamonds, Power, and Purpose By James Bridges | Herbage Magazine “City Girls isn’t just a pre-roll. It’s a
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Mowdy Magic Reloaded
Mowdy Farms levels up! By James Bridges It was just another bustling afternoon at theBRICK dispensary when the air shifted,
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SQ 837: The Long Road to Legalization in Oklahoma
By James Bridges More organized, more refined, and backed by a coalition that knows what it’s up against. On March
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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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Diamond Dust Farms
Pioneers of Pre-packaged Premiums By James Bridges Diamond Dust Farms stands out as a beacon in the cannabis industry, known
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Rooted in the Flood
By James Bridges, Publisher, Herbage Magazine – 420 2025 Issue I want to tell you a story. It begins somewhere
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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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Skepticism to Understanding: Cannabis Conversatio
Editorial by James Bridges The duality of cannabis as both a medicinal marvel and a regulatory challenge is, to me,
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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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Look at You: Greetings from James Bridges
Just as the owl, which is represented on our cover, is associated with keen insight and seeing through darkness, cannabis
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420 – Ours to Keep
The name “420” has become synonymous with the cannabis lifestyle and a celebration that occurs every April In many parts
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Dict For V-Day
by James Bridges I broke up with that disgusting and dreadful monster 4-years-ago and I think about her every day.
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Pressing For Gold – Wellevate Farms
By James Bridges We pulled into the parking lot of what was obviously a structure built to move heavy machinery
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One Tiny Drop
By James Bridges I was at a breaking point on a couple of projects that were nearly finished. My director,
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Let’s Get Mowdy
By James Bridges “We’ve all been in this together. I remember Temple Kush put us on the map. Now look
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Happy Father’s Day
By James Bridges I peaked over the top of the couch to see if I could catch what was happening
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Strain Of The Month – GREAT SPIRITS
By James Bridges I am standing inside of a room and I have a metal suit on. On each side
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The Captain
by James Bridges I have been told by several key individuals throughout my life that I am what some call
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Triggers To Success In A Saturated Market White Barn Bud Ranch
Triggers To Success In A Saturated Market White Barn Bud Ranch by James Bridges The Oklahoma cannabis market has openly
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Strain Of The Month Grape Biscotti – Mowdy Farms
Strain Of The Month Grape Biscotti – Mowdy Farms By James Bridges I may catch a ton of heat for
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Down & Dirty with Comanche Compost
Down & Dirty with Comanche Compost By James Bridges I was reminded of the Legendary Comanche Chief, Quahna Parker.
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Acceptance.
Acceptance. By James Bridges I had no idea of the extremely high speeds in which this vessel would achieve. I
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Southern Hospitality: About The February Cover
Southern Hospitality About The Cover By James Bridges One could swim in the essence of cozy satisfaction felt in the
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Strain of Month – Dear James
Dear James, It’s me from the future. Before you go on a wild goose chase for some of the best
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Take Me To The Candy Shop
Take Me To The Candy Shop By James Bridges “It feels like a dream. It’s honestly something I would have
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Rose: January 2022 Cover
Rose by James Bridges It was late and I needed to go to sleep. I couldn’t allow my mind to
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Translation – (Strain of the Month)
Translation – (Strain of the Month) By James Bridges Clanging of mind monkeys play in the background. I wanted to
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