Haute high: How did marijuana go from shadowy activity to style's next commodity?

Walking down Toronto’s Queen West strip, you’ll pass a few decades-old head shops, Shanti Baba and The Friendly Stranger perhaps the most notable among them. Their happy bud signage – melting swirls and mystical icons – and array of psychedelic products are quickly turning into relics in a world where an increasing acceptance toward marijuana usage means more desire (and ability) to spend on recreational habits. And as we all know, where there’s a need, there’s soon a surplus of product to satisfy it.

Today, the model and features of your vaporizer are dinner table conversation in the way we used to talk about swish German-engineered cars. Trial runs come after coffee, of course. A Pax, for example, is arguably the most innovative and user-friendly portable “plant agnostic” vaporizer on the market, and will run you around $350. With verbiage such as elegant, optimized and intelligent lauding the tool’s functions,...

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