
Lauren Yoshiko
Writer at Freelance
Contributing Editor and Writer at Broccoli Magazine
Co-Host at Broccoli Talk Podcast
Writer at The Broccoli Report
reporting on weeds from the city of the roses since 2014 🌹 cannabis news & 🎙 @broccolimag
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2 weeks ago |
stickybits.news | Lauren Yoshiko
Sunday, May 18, 2025Time to read: About 8 minutes. Contains 1,890 words. It started back in October 2024, when Broccoli magazine published its final issue. The first inkling that a greater shift in the cannabis scene was upon us. Change is a constant in this industry, of course. But the recent closures of Sackville & Co. and Canadian retail chain Superette—two brands I considered, along with Broccoli, tastemaking leaders in New Weed—felt more meaningful than the usual turnover.
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1 month ago |
stickybits.news | Lauren Yoshiko
Friday, April 11, 2025Time to read: About 4 minutes. Contains 5,165 words. Hello, dear subscribers!I hope everyone’s spring season is budding nicely. If you’ve been here a while, you may be wondering: Wtf is going on with Sticky Bits? Will she ever get back to the twice-weekly schedule? The answer to that is: sometimes, maybe? The reality is, I’ve been working on this for almost five years.
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Feb 14, 2025 |
stickybits.news | Lauren Yoshiko
Friday, February 14, 2025Time to read: About 15 minutes. Contains 3,600 words. After 11 years in the weed scene, the lines between subjects and friends have blurred. My community includes my sources. My cat is referenced by name in PR sends. So, when I spotted a paid ad for what looked almost exactly like Another Room’s Jointlocker, but under the name JointKeeper by a brand called Funky Forms, I felt personally offended.
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Feb 12, 2025 |
stickybits.news | Lauren Yoshiko
Wednesday, February 12, 2025Time to read: About 7 minutes. Contains 1,523 words. Hiiiiiii, dear readers!How are you? I missed y’all. A lot of the time since my last dispatch was dominated by a 2,000-word commission turned 4,068-word opus on Portland’s Old Town/Chinatown/formerly Japantown neighborhood. The lengthy historical research was ultimately a welcome reprieve while processing horrific disasters, natural and manmade.
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Dec 10, 2024 |
wweek.com | Lauren Yoshiko
Chess holds a unique allure. The tension between strategy and impulse, risk and loss, all set to the beat of a ticking clock. It’s universally hypnotic to watch a chess match unfold, and a bit profound considering how the game transcends human notions of language and luck. That artistic interpretation is at the core of Chess Club, a one-of-a-kind magazine shop and mineral water bar recently opened in the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood by co-founders Andrew Simon and Christy Lai.
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I'll be having the worst day ever and then realize I just need to wash my bangs

I've wanted to write this since I went to college and learned this is so not a national phenomenon. super proud of this pnw storytelling!!!! and it was really fun to be on the ground again, off of my computer, talking to so many people in diff neighborhoods for a story.

Another banger from @LaurenYTerry exploring the employee-owned bikini barista kiosks across Portland. This is a story I've wanted to see on Eater Portland since I started, and I'm so glad Lauren nailed it. https://t.co/P3pG6TVhPu

RT @eclair_fm: he doesnt know his food cost more than an oz of ouid but he does know i love him :3 https://t.co/9gCP0XHMPM