Hello everyone and welcome to our April Members Update.
This monthly post is to keep you informed about what's been going on behind the scenes at 420 Magazine during the last few weeks, highlighting any changes to the website which may effect you and spotlighting new articles of interest, new sponsors and our monthly contest winners.
4/20/23 is a significant day in our calendar. 420 Magazine is 30 years old!
We are the oldest and most established cannabis and hemp website in the world. Many others have fallen by the wayside, either at the hands of the law or by their own, slack and sloppy practices. 420 Magazine, with our strict adherence to federal law and our firm but we hope kindly enforcement of our Guidelines, stands proud, continuing to further our Mission and provide news, information and help and support to all those who recognize the positive and healing properties of our beloved herb.
There will be more announcements regarding our birthday in the coming weeks.
A special "Welcome!" to all the new members who have joined over the last month - Welcome New Members – Please Read Before Posting and do Introduce Yourself. Many thanks also to all those who warmly welcome new members.
We always say that we wouldn't be here without our Sponsors, however it's equally true that 420 Magazine wouldn't be such a great mission without you, our members. We are always grateful for your presence, contributions, positive energy and spirit of helping others.
Software News & Website Updates
We are continually working to resolve any software problems and make your on-line experience better.
For anyone who missed it, here are the revised and new features that we introduced in December.
Blogs Are Back!
After much work and testing, we are pleased to announce that the 420 Magazine blog function is back.
A blog is really whatever you want to use it for - as long as it is cannabis or hemp related.
Some people do grow journals for support and attention in the forum threads, some do them for themselves in blogs. Some people use them for tutorials they create and want to share, sometimes to copy/paste something from someone’s thread, like a grow notes or nutrient system. Some people use them for creative writing.
It's completely up to you! Just please keep them on-topic. And of course our Posting Guidelines still apply to blogs.
There's a new tutorial to help you get started here - How To Create A Blog & Blog Entries
Emojis Fixed
Some emojis were not showing correctly: they were interfering with ratio and other miscellaneous calculations. This software issue has been resolved.
420 Magazine SEO: Search Engine Optimization Project
If members could please remember to descriptively label photos before posting and be explicit when describing content in thread tiles, that really will boost our SEO, helping those seeking advice, news and information to find us.
1. Threads
Titles such as "WTF is this?" or "Bud Porn" negatively affect our rankings, whereas "My plant has gone crazy - is this foxtail?" or "Black Domina 72 Days Into Flower - Huge Colas" are descriptive and will positively help our mission.
2. Photos
Photos should describe their content so please re-name something like "image DSC_3928174rtt.jpg" to "jack-herer-hempy-bucket.jpg" for example, before posting.
This will help users to find your images and better understand your post.
Please also use the Gallery instead of attaching photos. This not only benefits our SEO, it also creates your own, personal library of photos to browse, which isn't possible with attachments.
3. Tags
These are important, so please be sure to add them when you start a new thread by using the Add Tags option .
Use words you expect to use in your thread or grow, e.g. soil, organic, outdoor, coco, LED, organic, hydro, scrog etc.
We understand this is extra work and not always possible, but please try to help us to remain the biggest and best cannabis community on the internet.
4. The International Forum
As part of our continuing project to improve 420 Magazine's SEO, we removed the International forum from the Forums page so that it was only accessible by link.
However we received some cries of anguish from many in our international community! We heard you and 420 International is now back on the Forums page. Thank you all for your feedback, and sorry for the temporary inconvenience.
420 Magazine Store
It's up and running here - 420 Magazine Store. Currently in stock, we have some very cool 420 Magazine mugs, stickers and those sought-after 420 Magazine T Shirts. It's all tip-top quality. No cheapo, foreign manufactured goods here. Unfortunately, PayPal continue being a problem in not allowing payments. Despite medical cannabis being legal in 38 Sates, recreational use legal in 18 States and a further 13 States having decriminalized cannabis use, PayPal have not yet caught up. We've all still got much work to do. Help support our Mission and pick up some awesome 420 goodies.
Your Experiences At 420 Magazine
We've got a new thread for our members to share how much they have learned, gained, grown and/or experienced from their membership at 420 Magazine. We hope that patients, activists, growers, fans of the flower, friends of 420 Magazine, or even reformed LEO will post their experiences here for others to learn from and celebrate.
Please Tell Us About Your Experiences At 420 Magazine
Sponsors
We would like to thank the following sponsors for joining or renewing their support for our mission. We are truly grateful.
CCELL
Rocket Seeds
MagicStone
Vivosun
Royal Queen Seeds
MJ Wholesale
Dynomyco
Plagron
Please check out their websites and support those who support us.
Also, don't forget to check out the Sponsors Forum, where our sponsors post information and offers exclusive to 420 Magazine members.
To make it easy for you to find sponsors accounts and their profiles, we've now added them to the Members Page.
Sponsor of the Month: Original Sensible Seeds
We are delighted to announce that Original Sensible Seeds are 420 Magazine's Sponsor of the Month.
Original Sensible Seeds breed the strongest and highest yielding cannabis seeds in the world. They were heavily involved in the development and distribution of the modern Skunk cannabis strains and are bang up to date with high THC USA West Coast cannabis strains as well as significantly superior cannabis genetics for medical applications rich in CBD and CBG cannabinoids.
For 420 Magazine to continue offering our free service we rely on like-minded sponsors such as Original Sensible Seeds, to whom we are truly grateful. Please support our Mission by supporting them. Our sponsors make 420 Magazine possible.
Our Home Page
Don't get stuck in the growing forums. Do remember to check out our Home Page regularly. It's updated daily, full of interesting stories, sponsor profiles, staff reviews, and some great articles written by our sponsors.
From the last month, you'll find new official 420 Magazine reviews of Dynomyco Mycorrhizal Inoculants and the Nova All-In-One ePipe From Cipher, both great reads and both written and photographed by our very own, Krissi Carbone.
New sponsor, MJ Wholesale, have also submitted an article all about their comprehensive packaging services - MJ Wholesale: Custom Printing Services For Cannabis Packaging.
March Contest Winners
Congratulations to all of the monthly winners, who, thanks to our sponsors, will be receiving some great prize packages.
420 Magazine's Member of the Month: March 2023 - Tokin Roll
420 Magazine's Grow Journal of the Month: March 2023 - NickHardy
420 Magazine's Nug of the Month: March 2023 - Braddah Waiheesohai
420 Magazine's Plant of the Month: March 2023 - Tokin Roll
420 Magazine's Photo of the Month: March 2023 - Evergreen89
You don't have to be an experienced grower to enter the contests - any member with a minimum of 50 posts may enter and vote in those with polls. There are some great prizes to win - including exclusive 420 Magazine merchandise and some high value products from our generous, contest-supporting sponsors.
So if you fancy picking up a garden-full of great prizes, or just enjoy looking at some of the most beautiful plants and nugs produced on the planet, do check out our contests. They are fun and inspirational.
That's the lot for this month. Thank you for being a valuable part of our Mission, we are truly grateful for you.
Sending you all lots of love and positive energy through the universe.
Teddy Edwards
420 Support
This monthly post is to keep you informed about what's been going on behind the scenes at 420 Magazine during the last few weeks, highlighting any changes to the website which may effect you and spotlighting new articles of interest, new sponsors and our monthly contest winners.
4/20/23 is a significant day in our calendar. 420 Magazine is 30 years old!
We are the oldest and most established cannabis and hemp website in the world. Many others have fallen by the wayside, either at the hands of the law or by their own, slack and sloppy practices. 420 Magazine, with our strict adherence to federal law and our firm but we hope kindly enforcement of our Guidelines, stands proud, continuing to further our Mission and provide news, information and help and support to all those who recognize the positive and healing properties of our beloved herb.
There will be more announcements regarding our birthday in the coming weeks.
A special "Welcome!" to all the new members who have joined over the last month - Welcome New Members – Please Read Before Posting and do Introduce Yourself. Many thanks also to all those who warmly welcome new members.
We always say that we wouldn't be here without our Sponsors, however it's equally true that 420 Magazine wouldn't be such a great mission without you, our members. We are always grateful for your presence, contributions, positive energy and spirit of helping others.
Software News & Website Updates
We are continually working to resolve any software problems and make your on-line experience better.
For anyone who missed it, here are the revised and new features that we introduced in December.
- We have collapsed the forums hamburger menu mobile text link so it would bring the gallery link closer to the top and make it more convenient. So if you want to check watched threads for example, just tap the down arrow to the right of the 420 Forums link and you’ll see it and other features in the drop down menu. Just one extra click for you. Our Contests link has also been added as a left side hamburger menu link above Reviews for mobile.
- We have tidied up the multiple copies of our Posting Guidelines. This is partly to help us when guidelines are updated, to ensure that no copies are missed. All will now forward you to Forum Guidelines - Please Read Before Posting
- The Photo Gallery & Photo Gallery Tutorial have been updated to be much more stoner friendly. We apologize for the confusing mess this has been in. You can find more details here - Photo Gallery Updates - where we also will welcome your comments and feedback.
Blogs Are Back!
After much work and testing, we are pleased to announce that the 420 Magazine blog function is back.
A blog is really whatever you want to use it for - as long as it is cannabis or hemp related.
Some people do grow journals for support and attention in the forum threads, some do them for themselves in blogs. Some people use them for tutorials they create and want to share, sometimes to copy/paste something from someone’s thread, like a grow notes or nutrient system. Some people use them for creative writing.
It's completely up to you! Just please keep them on-topic. And of course our Posting Guidelines still apply to blogs.
There's a new tutorial to help you get started here - How To Create A Blog & Blog Entries
Emojis Fixed
Some emojis were not showing correctly: they were interfering with ratio and other miscellaneous calculations. This software issue has been resolved.
420 Magazine SEO: Search Engine Optimization Project
If members could please remember to descriptively label photos before posting and be explicit when describing content in thread tiles, that really will boost our SEO, helping those seeking advice, news and information to find us.
1. Threads
Titles such as "WTF is this?" or "Bud Porn" negatively affect our rankings, whereas "My plant has gone crazy - is this foxtail?" or "Black Domina 72 Days Into Flower - Huge Colas" are descriptive and will positively help our mission.
2. Photos
Photos should describe their content so please re-name something like "image DSC_3928174rtt.jpg" to "jack-herer-hempy-bucket.jpg" for example, before posting.
This will help users to find your images and better understand your post.
Please also use the Gallery instead of attaching photos. This not only benefits our SEO, it also creates your own, personal library of photos to browse, which isn't possible with attachments.
3. Tags
These are important, so please be sure to add them when you start a new thread by using the Add Tags option .
Use words you expect to use in your thread or grow, e.g. soil, organic, outdoor, coco, LED, organic, hydro, scrog etc.
We understand this is extra work and not always possible, but please try to help us to remain the biggest and best cannabis community on the internet.
4. The International Forum
As part of our continuing project to improve 420 Magazine's SEO, we removed the International forum from the Forums page so that it was only accessible by link.
However we received some cries of anguish from many in our international community! We heard you and 420 International is now back on the Forums page. Thank you all for your feedback, and sorry for the temporary inconvenience.
420 Magazine Store
It's up and running here - 420 Magazine Store. Currently in stock, we have some very cool 420 Magazine mugs, stickers and those sought-after 420 Magazine T Shirts. It's all tip-top quality. No cheapo, foreign manufactured goods here. Unfortunately, PayPal continue being a problem in not allowing payments. Despite medical cannabis being legal in 38 Sates, recreational use legal in 18 States and a further 13 States having decriminalized cannabis use, PayPal have not yet caught up. We've all still got much work to do. Help support our Mission and pick up some awesome 420 goodies.
Your Experiences At 420 Magazine
We've got a new thread for our members to share how much they have learned, gained, grown and/or experienced from their membership at 420 Magazine. We hope that patients, activists, growers, fans of the flower, friends of 420 Magazine, or even reformed LEO will post their experiences here for others to learn from and celebrate.
Please Tell Us About Your Experiences At 420 Magazine
Sponsors
We would like to thank the following sponsors for joining or renewing their support for our mission. We are truly grateful.
CCELL
Rocket Seeds
MagicStone
Vivosun
Royal Queen Seeds
MJ Wholesale
Dynomyco
Plagron
Please check out their websites and support those who support us.
Also, don't forget to check out the Sponsors Forum, where our sponsors post information and offers exclusive to 420 Magazine members.
To make it easy for you to find sponsors accounts and their profiles, we've now added them to the Members Page.
Sponsor of the Month: Original Sensible Seeds
We are delighted to announce that Original Sensible Seeds are 420 Magazine's Sponsor of the Month.
Original Sensible Seeds breed the strongest and highest yielding cannabis seeds in the world. They were heavily involved in the development and distribution of the modern Skunk cannabis strains and are bang up to date with high THC USA West Coast cannabis strains as well as significantly superior cannabis genetics for medical applications rich in CBD and CBG cannabinoids.
For 420 Magazine to continue offering our free service we rely on like-minded sponsors such as Original Sensible Seeds, to whom we are truly grateful. Please support our Mission by supporting them. Our sponsors make 420 Magazine possible.
Our Home Page
Don't get stuck in the growing forums. Do remember to check out our Home Page regularly. It's updated daily, full of interesting stories, sponsor profiles, staff reviews, and some great articles written by our sponsors.
From the last month, you'll find new official 420 Magazine reviews of Dynomyco Mycorrhizal Inoculants and the Nova All-In-One ePipe From Cipher, both great reads and both written and photographed by our very own, Krissi Carbone.
New sponsor, MJ Wholesale, have also submitted an article all about their comprehensive packaging services - MJ Wholesale: Custom Printing Services For Cannabis Packaging.
March Contest Winners
Congratulations to all of the monthly winners, who, thanks to our sponsors, will be receiving some great prize packages.
420 Magazine's Member of the Month: March 2023 - Tokin Roll
420 Magazine's Grow Journal of the Month: March 2023 - NickHardy
420 Magazine's Nug of the Month: March 2023 - Braddah Waiheesohai
420 Magazine's Plant of the Month: March 2023 - Tokin Roll
420 Magazine's Photo of the Month: March 2023 - Evergreen89
You don't have to be an experienced grower to enter the contests - any member with a minimum of 50 posts may enter and vote in those with polls. There are some great prizes to win - including exclusive 420 Magazine merchandise and some high value products from our generous, contest-supporting sponsors.
So if you fancy picking up a garden-full of great prizes, or just enjoy looking at some of the most beautiful plants and nugs produced on the planet, do check out our contests. They are fun and inspirational.
That's the lot for this month. Thank you for being a valuable part of our Mission, we are truly grateful for you.
Sending you all lots of love and positive energy through the universe.
Teddy Edwards
420 Support
