Stormy Simon knows what it takes to change minds and build a brand. As VP of Branding for Overstock.com, where she started as a temp, Simon oversaw the company growth from 250 million dollars in revenue to 500 million at…
Games & Strains: Dabble + Mad Hatter
For this edition of Games and Strains we’re pairing Dabble, a fast moving word game, with Mad Hatter, a fast moving cannabis strain. The Splimm Team has always loved word games. And not just because co-founder Jenn Lauder is…
City of Portland Issues Guide for Social Cannabis Consumption
Just in time for 4/20, the city of Portland has created a handy PDF with regulations and recommendations around social cannabis consumption. It’s no secret that social cannabis consumption is one of the toughest issues facing the burgeoning marijuana…
Arcane Revelry: Posh Pot Parties with Purpose
Valentine’s Day came a few weeks early to Portland with Arcane Revelry’s ACLU benefit, The Exclusive A violinist on stage presses foot pedals to enhance the sound of music, the rich tones drifting dreamily into the air. Three body-painted…
How Cannabis Can Help Us Raise the Generation the World Needs
Why talk about cannabis? Real educators teach children not what to think but how to think. They encourage the next generation to engage critically with the world around them and not to reproduce the same paradigm but to innovate, evolve,…
Sessions Rescinds Cole Memo & Nobody’s Happy
Three days after some of the biggest headlines in marijuana history – California legalizes cannabis! – Attorney General Jeff Sessions stole back the limelight with his move to rescind the Cole Memo. This 2013 Justice Department document outlined law enforcement…
Happy Birthday, Splimm: One Year into the Experiment
One year ago today, we published our first piece on Splimm.com. This was an idea years in development and rushed into existence by a new sense of urgency – the realization that we had to DO SOMETHING, even if it wasn’t…
Community Comes Together to Help California Cannabis Farms
California wildfires have burned over 220,000 acres, and they’re responsible for at least 40 deaths. Cannabis farms have been hit especially hard, with estimates ranging from 3,000-9,000 farms damaged by the blaze. Like most other kinds of farms, cannabis…
Splimm’s Children’s Book is #LilMamaApproved!
We’ve always admired companies that take parents seriously. Companies that aren’t just trying to sell us crap we don’t need, but that are working to make our complicated lives a little easier, a little better, or a little more fun.…
Answering Kids’ Cannabis Questions for PDX Parent
Raising kids in a state that recently legalized cannabis for adult use means answering a new set of questions. Portland writer Beth Slovic figured this out when her four-year-old wanted to know what the green cross that she saw on…
