SEAN DIETRICH ART

SEAN DIETRICH ART The cannabis and smoke shop industry is saturated with products and packaging reflecting the latest pop culture icons and cartoon characters, artist Sean Dietrich is bringing a dose of originality to the table — or the canvas, to be more precise. “I don’t try to fit in, and honestly, I try and…

September News

Do Legitimate Delta-8 Products Exist? With no regulatory oversight and limited laboratory testing, most products sold as delta-8-THC are not actually pure delta-8-THC said Christopher Hudalla, president and chief scientific officer of ProVerde Laboratories, an analytical testing firm with facilities in Massachusetts and Maine.  Scientists at ProVerde have tested thousands of products labeled delta-8-THC, and…

Decades, NY

It’s not often I do an interview and come away with something that has nothing to do with the subject! Case in point: my conversation with Ryan Gerald, the owner of Decades, a small chain of head shops/ smoke shops in New York. The first one opened 25 years ago and their growth has been…

September 21 Welcome

Happy September everyone! As we head into Fall, HQ has some big news…are you ready for the holiday season? If you haven’t started stocking up for the holiday rush, it’s time to get on it. According to a survey of Black Friday shoppers, holiday shopping begins not after Thanksgiving, but in October with more than…

September Welcome

Happy September everyone! As we head into Fall, HQ has some big news…are you ready for the holiday season? If you haven’t started stocking up for the holiday rush, it’s time to get on it. According to a survey of Black Friday shoppers, holiday shopping begins not after Thanksgiving, but in October with more than…

Seth W.P. Nicols

Seth W.P. Nicols has a story to tell. The year is 2847 A.D. and a swarm of nanobots designed to bond with humans has taken over, and inside an area of the country near Denver, referred to as The Zone, turned people into horrific, mutated creatures. It is a dystopian future in which a group of female warriors, part human, part machine, with…