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Interstate 710’s Seed-Sourced Vaping Meets Solventless Extraction

Cultivating at their own fully organic site in northern California allows Interstate 710 to cut out the middleman and ensure that their patient customers are getting the finest homegrown concentrates available. According to a volunteer representing the company, 710 doesn’t use CO2, butane or any other chemicals to extract the oils from the plant but …

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Who’s Winning the Great Santa Ana Pot War: Licensed Dispensaries or Rogue Shops?

At around 8 a.m. on Jan. 26, a group of officers from the Santa Ana Police Department (SAPD) lined the shopping center at the intersection of Jefferson Place and 17th Street with yellow caution tape. That same morning, a separate group of officers broke down the door of Sky High Holistic Collective and began to …

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MedMen Is Changing The Way Patients Shop For Meds

[metaslider id=2110] Click through our photo slideshow of the grand opening ceremonies above.  Tucked away in the industrial zone of Santa Ana, a giant red building has just become Orange County’s newest legal medical marijuana dispensary. Only MedMen isn’t like any collective out there, in fact, they’re paving a new path for patients and how …

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A Gay Pastor Leaves His Santa Ana Flock, Exposing the United Methodist Church’s LGBT Rift

Hymn No. 558 in the 960-page United Methodist Hymnal is “We Are the Church,” and the chorus to this call for Christian unity echoes through the high-arched ceiling at Santa Ana United Methodist Church (UMC). It’s Pentecost, the day that commemorates when the Holy Spirit came to the Apostles, and the multicultural congregation—Latinos, Filipinos, Cambodians, …

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Anaheim City Council Creates Working Group to Study its War on the Homeless

These days, Anaheim city council meetings are about as exciting as Angels baseball, complete with the same shoddy attendance. City staff set up chairs in the overflow room with an expected vote on Anaheim’s controversial anti-camping ban Tuesday night, but they weren’t needed. Meetings have devolved into bore-a-thons, with councilwoman Kris Murray’s soulless technocratic talk …

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Long Beach’s Recreational Coffee Is Way More Than Another Third-Wave Shop

Last week I drank a $12 cup of coffee. I don’t regret an ounce of it. Since it opened as downtown Long Beach’s first third-wave coffee shop nearly two years ago, Recreational Coffee has become my safe space to ask dumb coffee questions and explore the outer nerdy reaches of morning joe. With a full …

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Having a Bad Drug Trip at Lightning in a Bottle? Here’s How to Get Help

Sasha Rodriguez was 15-years-old when she went to Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 2010. After a night of experimenting with dance music’s beloved molly (MDMA, or ecstasy), Rodriguez overdosed and died at a nearby hospital. The repercussions of the incident banned EDC from LA forever and placed a dark cloud …

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On the Line: Chef Ivan Rogelio Calderon of Taco Mesa Tortilleria Organica and Cafe

I’ve been to a Taco Mesa and Taco Rosa over the years, but the Tortilleria Organica and Cafe in Orange taught me there’s always room to grow and improve upon an already lasting concept. Chef Ivan was kind enough to show me around the busy kitchen, explaining all the updates he’s made to the brand. …

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Alex Rivera Looks Back on the Legacy of His Sci-Fi Magnum Opus, Sleep Dealer

Alex Rivera’s science-fiction flick Sleep Dealer was released nearly a decade ago, but it remains relevant for its radical vision of a future world we now live in, with increased border patrol, digital culture, natural-resource containment and drone warfare. It’s an amazingly prophetic film, especially when you recognize the concept was developed in the mid-’90s. …

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In Orange County’s Courthouse Scandals, Prosecutors and Sheriff Unite in Cover-Ups

CHAPTER ONE  Undercover Canadian police couldn’t believe their eyes at the Tycoon Club in Vancouver. Oblivious to the surveillance, law-enforcement colleagues, including two cops from Southern California, partied inside a hangout for the Big Circle Boys, a violent, Asian, organized-crime family. The Guangzhou-spawned syndicate specialized in extortion, home-invasion robberies and narcotics trade—particularly heroin, international human …

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