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mirror and started giggling because I definitely looked like I was high AF. Fortunately, there was coffee and non-infused snacks and good music, Funny you should ask. I just landed so I just chilled and giggled ’til I felt in Barcelona after a six-hour layover sober enough to get a cab. in Amsterdam, and those are the two There was one other time where cities that get me the most stoned, I got hella high—but I don’t like apparently. to talk about it. Let’s just say one Twenty-something years ago, I should be careful with one’s edibles was the emcee at the High Times when taking the red-eye Greyhound cup in Amsterdam. As you might from Sac to Portland. Nothing like imagine, I had a lot of weed left at a small existential crisis whilst the end of the week and I tried to riding a bus through Oregon to help smoke it all before getting on the you put your life in perspective. plane. (I probably had 9 to 10 grams Greyhound bus drivers are cool, but of weed and hash on me and I didn’t they are strict. Weed is definitely want it to go to waste.) I smoked not allowed, and the driver will kick maybe 3 grams in about an hour you off the bus (sometimes on the before throwing in the towel and side of the road) if they know giving the rest of my stash to you are stoned. But that some random tourist. Greyhound ride was a Let me tell you: long time ago, way Being hella stoned before lab tests while trying to and the discovery find the train Let’s just say one should of using CBD that goes to the be careful with one’s as a way to stop airport when you edibles when taking the the effects of don’t read Dutch THC, so you and you are too red-eye Greyhound from don’t become an stoned to ask Sac to Portland. anxious paranoid for directions is stoner mess. quite the challenge. Now, they print the I’m a professional, amount of THC right so I managed to hold on the package, making it together and get to my it way easier to control your flight—but it was close. dosage, and I often carry some sort The other time I got incredibly of CBD product with me to certain high was just last year. I hosted a events, just in case. Ω cannabis-infused edibles competition at Dank Grass Club in Barcelona. One of the contestants had made a lemon-meringue tart. I had a small piece, and it was good, so I had another small piece. Then a little bit of the cake and ice cream from the Ngaio Bealum is a Sacramento other competitor. Then another small comedian, activist and marijuana piece of the lemon tart. Woohoo! expert. Email him questions at About 40 minutes later I. Was. Faded. ask420@newsreview.com. A friend who has known me for 20 years told me that she had never seen @Ngaio420 me look high before. I looked in the 34
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