#How I Hashtag: Meet Adé
The great Adé A. Cônnére is more than a multi-talented artist; she is a force of nature. She is an actress, a singer, a musician, and an activist. Her demure glamour is matched only by her playful sense of humor.
She’s equally at ease turning a jumbo-sized bingo wheel with a smart quip and a loud laugh as she is listening intently, even quietly, to a new friend over pizza.
We photographed Adé at Re-bar where she works as a bartender on March 3, 2020, just after Re-bar celebrated their 30th anniversary. Since 1990, Re-bar has been an icon for underground music, alternative theater, and the LGBTQIA/QTPOC communities of Seattle.
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#How I Hashtag: Meet Tyler
If you’ve visited our shop in Redmond, you’ve probably met Tyler.
His sublime descriptions of cannabis products are nothing short of captivating, informative, and always spot on. His mind is creative, and his demeanor friendly to all.
And after we finish a conversation about cannabis with Tyler, we always leave feeling happy and enlightened.
Check out Tyler’s favorite ways to consume cannabis, learn why he wanted to join the Hashtag team, and read what he predicts for the future of the cannabis industry in Washington and at large.
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Hashtag Cannabis and the Coronavirus in King County, Washington
The health, well-being, and safety of our guests, as well as our employees, is of the utmost importance to us.
In light of recent developments surrounding novel coronavirus (COVID-19), we wanted to take a moment to communicate the actions that we have taken at Hashtag to help protect you, your loved ones, and our employees.
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It’s a Hashtag Hash Bash!
Of all the cannabis concentrates and extracts we carry at Hashtag, hashish is the type of extract that we budtenders have personally consumed the least often. With so much popularity surrounding new methods of extracting concentrates and new ways to dab, old fashioned hash has simply taken the back seat.
That all changed last weekend after a few of us at Hashtag decided to get together and experience hash at our Hash Bash!
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Best Infused PreRolls of 2019 in Washington State
These stoney treats are not for newcomers to cannabis consumption. They pack a heavy punch of both mind and body, elevating you to the clouds.
Each of these pre rolls is infused with either kief, hash, oil, and sometimes all three concentrates! A dreamy layer of bud and oil mixes together to form a celebration of a joint.
After many smoke sessions, we've voted for our favorite infused pre rolls of 2019, and here are the top 5 we recommend the next time you’re ready to celebrate!
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Best Pre Rolls of 2019 in Washington State
Pre rolls are the best on the go treat and one of our favorite ways to consume cannabis. Whether you’re out and about around town, or unwinding after a long day, there’s no need to worry about packing a bowl, because your pre roll is wrapped up and ready to toke!
Pre rolled joints offer a wide selection of growers and strains with all different types of effects and ratios of CBD to THC. I like to think of them as a nice way to explore each strain, like a wine tasting!
After much exploration ourselves, we narrowed it down to our top 5 favorite pre rolls of 2019!
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Best Concentrates of 2019 in Washington State
From terp sauces to shatter to hash rosin, our budtenders have tried all the waxes we carry. Aroma, texture and effect were all taken into account when picking our favorites. Some of us use traditional dab rigs, and others use Nectar Collectors or E-Nails. All the methods are great, but my pick is the High Five E-Nail!
With no further ado, here are our favorite dabs of 2019!
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Best Tinctures of 2019 in Washington State
This is my favorite category of products that we sell at Hashtag! From high CBD, to equal parts of CBD and THC in a 1:1 ratio, and everything in between, tinctures are the way to go for relief any time of day. These easy-to-dose liquids come in a variety of different cannabinoid ratios to fit you and your everyday needs.
In my opinion, tinctures are the most accurate way to micro-dose and ease your way into cannabis consumption. We even have sublingual droppers and sprays for fast and lasting effects!
With such a vast array of tinctures available in the I-502 Washington state market, it can be a bit overwhelming to choose the tincture that’s right for you, but the staff at Hashtag has got you covered. We narrowed down a list of our favorite 5 tinctures of 2019 here in Washington, and here are the tinctures we consider the very best.
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Best Flower of 2019 in Washington State
Flower is my favorite form of cannabis, and our most popular. Our budtenders try all the new hotness that comes into the shop so that we can give honest reviews to customers. We've got folks who dig strong sativas, and others that go for heavy-bodied indicas. Some love it all! This year we smoked a lot of killer strains, but these are the ones that made our top five.
Read on!
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Best Vape Cartridges of 2019 in Washington State
Vape cartridges come in a variety of shapes and sizes, with an abundance of strains to choose from and unique extractors all doing it a little bit differently. From hardware like the Pax Era to the Veo auto-draw style battery, you can choose the type of convenience that suits you best. I personally love to keep a 1:1 ratio in my Pax Era while out and about running errands on my day off.
With such a wide variety of cartridge options, this was a tough category to narrow down to just our favorite 5 cartridges of 2019, but we managed to come up with our winners!
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Best Topicals of 2019 in Washington State
Not just for smoking or eating, cannabis-infused topical gels and creams can do wonders for the human body. Topicals include all cannabis-infused gels, lotions, and balms. When they are placed externally on the skin, topicals are absorbed through your skin over time. There’s a wide variety of topicals on the market today, and at Hashtag, we like to break them up into categories like lubricants, oils, gels, and lotions.
We have tried them ALL, far and wide, and when we voted on our favorite topicals of 2019, the results were clear! Below are our five favorite topicals of 2019 in Washington State.
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Best Edibles of 2019 in Washington State
For those of us that are patient, edibles can be the way to go when trying to get high. Though they can take an hour or two to kick in, you get a great body high that lasts much longer than your high had you have smoked. Plus, you get a snack in addition to getting high. For the best of both worlds, smoke a joint while you wait for your edibles to kick in!
Here are some of our most decadent and drool-worthy edibles from 2019 …
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Best Beverages of 2019 in Washington State
Our staff at Hashtag Cannabis has tasted every infused beverage we carry, and do we ever have our favorites. Our staff regularly reviews all the products we sell, and you can read those reviews below.
And now, the votes are in! With no further ado, let us present the results—here are Hashtag Cannabis’ staff picks for the top 5 best beverages of 2019 in Washington State.
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Please, Brown Bear Car Wash, save our jobs at Hashtag Redmond!
You may not be aware that Hashtag’s owners have been hard at work finding a new, bigger, and better location in Redmond for our store that will have triple the floor space, dedicated parking, and even a hemp-CBD shop next door. Although they have succeeded in securing a new location for us, after eight months of searching hundreds of properties, the lease for this new location does not permit us to move in before April 2020.
Meanwhile, the property we lease today was sold to Brown Bear Car Wash, who became our new landlords on Avondale Way NE and exercised their right to terminate our lease on January 31, 2020.
And with no retail space to operate Hashtag Redmond in the months of February and March, despite our best efforts, we may be forced to close for two months, and with extreme heartbreak, to lay off our beloved 13 employees.
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Hashtag and our Partners Share Statements on the Safety and Ingredients of Vape Cartridges
Updated November 19, 2019: Below, you’ll find the full ingredients list for every cartridge we carry, organized alphabetically by vendor.
At Hashtag, we take on the responsibility to shape a transparent and educational connection between the cannabis grower or processor, and you, the cannabis consumer. Beginning in 2015, we developed processes to ensure that our guests may choose between the safest, highest-quality cannabis products available in Washington state, and we only enter and maintain vendor partnerships that align with our vision and values. As of September 2019, we partner with 14 different Washington state vendors to provide our guests with a wide selection of vape cartridges, disposable vape pens, and Pax Era pods.
In the last week, we’ve heard many questions and concerns from our guests about the vape cartridges they’ve purchased from Hashtag. And we share your concerns with regard to the recent news surrounding vaping, lung injuries, and the possible link between the two.
Provided below are statements from our partners for you to review, to help you to determine your risk when using cannabis oil vape cartridges you’ve purchased from Hashtag.
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M.A.C. Attack! Hashtag’s Review of an Instant Classic
Cannabis is an incredibly diverse plant. Just like the hops we find in beer or the grapes we use to make wine, the very environment in which a cannabis plant is grown can (and often does) play a determining role in the traits that the plant ultimately displays.
When the same strain (also known as a cultivar, genotype, or chemovar) of a cannabis plant is grown under different conditions, different genes get expressed. As a result, different varieties of the exact same strain, known as phenotypes, emerge.
Take a strain like Miracle Alien Cookies (commonly known as M.A.C.), for example. When M.A.C. is grown in an indoor garden, the flavors, potency and effects of the flower that plant grows will be strikingly different than a M.A.C. grown in an outdoor garden, even though their genes are exactly the same.
But hold on. Just how big of a difference do growing conditions really make?
To answer that question, we took a deep dive into the world of cannabis cultivation. Our top-notch budtenders have sniffed, smoked and scribbled down their experiences with M.A.C. in pain-staking detail to share with you. And were we surprised with the results!
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Sneak Peek inside Sky High Gardens
You can imagine our stokedness when Sky High’s CEO Phil Seda invited us on a tour of his facility. An opportunity to see the legendary Pineapple Chunk in all its growing glory? There are few things that sound more appealing than a sneak peek at one of Hashtag’s most popular vendors.
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Remembering 50 Years of Pride
At Hashtag, all are welcome (if you’re over 21 and have the necessary ID), and all are loved, every day. We hang our Pride flags and our Trans Pride flags next to our Black Lives Matter signs in our Fremont and Redmond stores all year long. We welcome and celebrate our own queerness and your queerness all year long, too, and the day and weekend of Pride itself deserves special remembrance.
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Hashtag's Staff Choose the Best Strains of 2018
The results are in! After much deliberation and two rounds of voting, our staff has nominated and then ranked their favorite strains of 2018. Scroll down to view the five strains that garnered a honorable mention, and finally, our chosen favorites: the top 5 strains of over 200 sold by Hashtag in 2018.
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Cannabis Topicals 102: Which CBD:THC ratio is right for you?
In Cannabis Topicals 101, we touched briefly on some of the exciting details surrounding the variety of cannabis gels, lotions and oils that we carry at Hashtag.
We covered the key differences between topical gels, oils and lotions, their uses as well as their potential benefits for folks looking for relief from muscle, limb and joint discomfort.
But that was only the beginning!
If you’re one of the 100 million people in the United States that suffer regularly from chronic pain/discomfort, then you might have considered using a cannabis topical before.
If that sounds like you then you have come to the right place, friend: Topicals 102!
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