Amanda Lewis

Forget Soylent. Forget Clif bars. The meal substitutes of the future will not only fill your belly; they will get you high. Two months ago, a few Los Angeles dispensaries began carrying the Lucid Cannabis bar, an organic, vegan, raw and gluten-free protein bar, with 341 calories, 20 grams of......

Even in L.A., it's still something of a taboo for a woman to brand herself as a pot-smoker. So in 2009, native Angeleno ChaCha VaVoom (née Vanessa Sahagun) launched 420nurses.com, a social network for models who toke to connect, video chat and cash in on their looks, à la Instagram......

A new study from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance shows that people who had THC in their systems at the time that they suffered a traumatic brain injury were significantly more likely to survive the trauma. One of the study’s authors, surgeon Brian......

Few novelty songs are as much fun as Afroman’s 2000 track “Because I Got High.” (The video, which has 47 million views, is at the bottom of this post.)  The Grammy-nominated hip-hop jam worked not just because it's an hilarious earworm, but because it tells a story. It starts off......

Los Angeles website The Savory offers recipes and tips for the amateur chef and bartender. Last week, they began a series of instructional cooking videos aimed at two quintessential types: the foodie and the pothead. Each Wednesday until mid-October, chef Brandon Coates will explain how to use marijuana just like any......

Last week, rapper Waka Flocka Flame posted a help wanted ad on Instagram, seeking a personal, full-time blunt roller. The salary? $50,000 a year. Before we could sign up, his publicist Ed Banacia told us the whole thing was a joke.  But then, after actor Seth Rogen expressed interest in the gig via......

Earlier this year, Hollywood-born ganja entrepreneur Henry Mark, 24, introduced Los Angeles to the Stoned Oven Gourmet Pizza, placing his frozen $10 pies in a handful of dispensaries. Each six-inch personal pizza contains 250 mg of ethanol-extracted THC concentrate from an indica-dominant hybrid strain. The concentrate is made in Mendocino......

A few weeks ago, Toke wondered aloud: Why don't L.A. dispensaries sell blunts? As much as we enjoy a fine stuff Phillie, we don't have the dexterity to roll them ourselves. But it turns out there is a local merchant who sells them after all. West Hollywood collective TGE offers......

The long-awaited, and oft-controversial, Made in America finally arrived in L.A. over the weekend.  The attendance wasn't fabulous, and John Mayer was performing, so there were two strikes against the Jay-Z masterminded event from the start. Still, there were some pretty baller moments. Here are the best and worst of......