Amanda Lewis

In the past few years, a lot of serious potheads have switched from smoking marijuana to vaping concentrates like wax, which require the kind of heat that only can come from a butane torch. Unlike regular lighters, butane torches are fairly large and awkward. So a company called Errlybird is......

California DARE Coordinator Steve Abercrombie was not pleased to learn the news that the Los Angeles Unified School District had decriminalized small amounts of marijuana at its schools. "Wow," he tells Toke of the Town. "It seems we keep giving in more and more to different crimes and criminal activity......

John Legend Greek Theatre August 18, 2014 John Legend looked me straight in the eyes and told me he loved me last night, you guys. Well, maybe he didn't mean me, personally, but it sure felt that way. On stage at the Greek Theatre, the R&B crooner seduced an entire......

Rolling a blunt is a complicated art. Compared to regular rolling papers for joints, cigar wraps (which are made from tobacco leaves) aren’t as wide, and they’re harder to bend. Rolling a blunt thus requires dexterity and serious hand-eye coordination. Opportunities to mess up abound. Toke has been taught how......

It’s a Tuesday afternoon in late June, and rapper/reality TV star Chanel West Coast is walking briskly through the Grove, tossing her straightened blond, sorority-girl hair, when a teenager sitting at La Piazza Ristorante Italiano shouts out, “Chanel!” When she sees it’s a young fan, someone who probably has seen......

The toughest thing about festivals like Coachella is figuring out how to sneak your drugs inside, while wearing as little clothing as possible. Is there really a good way to do it without sticking something up your butt? Enter the Secret Smoker Bracelet, a colorful hemp-braided wrist accessory that unscrews......

Shabazz Palaces The Roxy July 30, 2014 Back in 2011, long before Yeezus and Skrillex's song on the A$AP Rocky' album, Seattle-based hip hop collective Shabazz Palaces put out Black Up, a powerhouse that heralded the coming love affair between rap and EDM. Pairing Digable Planets' Ishmael Butler's verging-on-pretentious lyrics (how many......

When I reach SZA on the phone, she is just about to get naked with her friends and smoke a blunt on the beach, an experience that almost perfectly approximates the vibe of her music: cozy but exposed, sensual but funny, and deliberately fuzzy around the edges. It hasn't been......