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OREGON WEED: STATE REVIEW

September 12, 2022 by

Oregon weed is sold legally throughout the state. Does that sound right to baby boomers? A comfort? Yes, weed is legally sold in Oregon, with a load of stores in Portland, Oregon.

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PORTLAND WEED: A SHORT HISTORY

August 25, 2022 by

Portland weed once came out of Goose Hollow Inn men’s room. A dealer worked from a stall with a full waiting room outside, according to sources. Like all good history, BoomerPdx relies on primary sources and historical relevance to reflect past life. If that life takes a turn into hardcore drug addiction, it’s a life […]

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HEALTH RECONCILIATION FOR THE COMEBACK WIN

November 23, 2021 by

What is health reconciliation but being able to look in the mirror and acknowledge who is looking back? If it sounds easy, then you’ve never been down the dark road of reconciliation, health or otherwise. The important thing is finding peace along the way. You may get better, you may not, but health reconciliation settles […]

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BAR RAG REPORT: HIGHER EDUCATION AND MORE

October 30, 2021 by

This Bar Rag Report is brought to you from the the last bar stool on the left. It’s the best perch to see and hear about the events of the day. And then some.

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MEDICAL MARIJUANA: 420 FROM THE OTHER SIDE

April 20, 2021 by

Medical marijuana sounded like a clever joke the first time I’d heard of it. Medical? Like legal? Did a smart hippie find a loophole to get high without getting arrested? What’s next, I figured, the return of cocaine to Coca-cola? Extra morphine in cough syrup? The benefits of medical marijuana dawned on me after a […]

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ROLE MODEL: THE JOB THAT NEVER ENDS AND NEVER SHOULD

February 20, 2021 by

Role Model is what you do when you put your best foot forward, your best self. People want to show their best side when it’s most important. Weddings, birthdays, any celebration worth showing up for, calls for good role modeling. If you show up and look around, but don’t find role models doing what role […]

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MUSIC EDUCATION MAKES A GOOD LISTENER

August 11, 2020 by

From flutophone to virtuoso, music education is an essential subject. One online expert said there are two kinds of music: easy and impossible. They finished with: The path between them is called practice.

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AMERICAN WEED MAP, WITH HIGHWAY TO HELL

January 26, 2020 by

Google ‘legal weed map America’ and this is what you get. Or, maybe it was ‘legal weed state map.’ The pic is a screen shot. The dark left side are legal weed states with weed stores. The bottom right is a lighter shade on most maps.

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AARP WEED: “DON’T BOGART THAT JOINT MY FRIEND, PASS IT OVER TO ME”

October 2, 2019 by

At some point it had to happen: The AARP went front page with weed, calling it medical marijuana. They covered medical conditions and weed quality and bashful confessions on using weed, marijuana, medical marijuana, cannabis. Pick a name you like. To this boomer blogger it all sounds so disingenuous. Why?

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MARIJUANA: ADDICT OR ACTIVIST

July 13, 2019 by

By now most folks understand the marijuana difference between 1969 and 2019. Finger counting shows fifty years between the two. In 1969 people bought a lid, four fingers, maybe three, an ounce, a stick, or a brick for the daring. In 1969 people knew people who stayed anonymous. Hand over the money and the person […]

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