Moms on the Porch

This week, we take the porch to Elmwood Park. Honestly? Best field trip we’ve ever taken. 🌿 We sat down with Sarah Nodes , a freelance cannabis marketing consultant who works with cannabis brands and dispensaries across the country as a fractional CMO and marketing director — the woman behind the strategy, the brand, and the story. And the story she brought us to? Linda Solana , owner of Cannavib...

We're back. It's been all of August, both vacations happened, and we have been waiting all summer for a moment like this. This week on the porch we're smoking Dogwalker and easing back into the rhythm with a white tin, a re-up, and a lot of ground to cover. We open with Amanda's casino story — the full emotional rollercoaster of losing a phone, losing a $300 ticket to a strange...

This week on the porch we're smoking Cap Junkie by Garden Greens — an evenly balanced hybrid that hits fast, hard, and somewhere between the eyes — and we have a very special guest. Grandma Deb is back, and she brought sour straws, a blanket, and absolutely no filter. But before she makes her entrance, Amanda has stories. Her mom spent approximately one hour at a softball game and somehow fou...

This week on the porch, Hailey's husband has her on a timer, the kids are orbiting like satellites, and we have exactly 30 minutes before someone turns into a pumpkin. We open with the Canadian wildfire smoke settling over New Jersey and the skunk situation — Hailey's stash had been sitting at Amanda's overnight, shifted during cleaning, and at 8am Amanda genuinely thought an actual...

This week on the porch we're smoking Untitled Ice Cream Cake — an indica that promised to have us falling deeper and deeper into a couch-locked state of sedation, and delivered on every word. We read the description out loud and still said yes. We have no regrets. We open on the week from hell: a birthday party that turned into a family confrontation in front of the entire yard, a freshly hig...

Episode 10. Double digits. We're smoking Granddaddy Purple — allegedly the grandfather of all weed strains — and it took approximately two hits for us to fully endorse that claim. Before we get there, Amanda went to the casino womped and came back with two stories: one involving a flash mob of nine-foot-tall strangers, and one involving a Backstreet Boys song, a casino bathroom, and a despera...

This week on the porch we're smoking Super Boof — Leafly Strain of the Year 2024, which we absolutely did not know until right now — and processing a week that had absolutely no chill. Both sets of girls had their last day of school. Hailey cried six times. She did the secret handshake at the kindergarten door one last time and did not hold it together. The teachers noticed. Then we get into...

This week on the porch we’re smoking Kaizen by Garden Greens — sativa leaning, social high, clear euphoric head. Perfect for a conversation that was supposed to be normal and was not even a little bit normal. We open with exploding sour Warheads candy that genuinely feel like doing drugs, debate whether smoking alone officially crosses the line (Deb’s ruling: that’s drugs), and somehow end up with...

This week on the porch we're smoking Unicorn Milk by Munchies — sweet notes of sherbet and, yes, Girl Scout Cookies — and picking up where we left off on the question that won't leave us alone: when does cannabis become drugs? Tonight's verdict: it might be the accessories. Once you've got a bubbler, a bowl, a bong that's described as "really cute" — have you cro...

This week on the porch it's a Friday daylight womp — kids upstairs, moms outside, Munchies Marshmallow Pie in the bowl and porch tax cookies to match. We spend three attempts trying to have a PTA conversation, and land firmly on the conclusion that you cannot be a womp mom and PTA president at the same time. We don't make the rules. Also: Hailey woke up at 2am convinced there was a taran...

This week on the porch Left Coast's Monster Cookies is in the rotation, and Cookie Monster cookies are on the table — because if we're smoking it, we're eating it. We open with a Reddit deep dive on Left Coast flower, debate whether we've officially escalated past normal human consumption, and somewhere in the middle of it all Hailey can no longer feel her legs. Also: Amanda&ap...

This week on the porch we welcome our first official guest — Matteo, Hailey's husband's best friend of 40-something years and a man who has never once smoked with us until right now. We break him in properly with American Pie indica, Powder Donut for the re-up, and a round of porch tax that somehow involves actual Girl Scout cookies baked into the cookies. We cover a lot of ground: Matte...

This week on the porch we're smoking Tropicana Cookies, debating whether everything in the cannabis world is secretly just Girl Scout Cookies in a trenchcoat, and getting fully womped before anyone was ready. We also get into it — the real stuff. PMS-fueled orthodontist rage, the paperwork that pushed Amanda over the edge, and the moment at the dentist that almost made her cry. Then we talk a...

This week on the porch we find out Grandma has been living her best life — and honestly we're not even surprised. We're talking cannabis across generations, what happens when your whole family turns out to be on the porch, and why Spirit Airlines ceasing to exist mid-trip led to a 13-hour drive home, a flying tooth, and a set of dentures in a parking lot. Plus: a mysterious woman appears...

It's day one, episode one, and we did it — we actually sat down, hit record, and brought you into our end-of-night tradition. In this first episode we get into the stigma of being a cannabis mom, why the language around it still feels so loaded, and what we'd even tell our kids. Plus: a stranger touches Amanda's car in the school pickup line and returns an item that raises more ques...

Welcome to Moms on the Porch — the pot-cast for moms who get it. We're Hailey and Amanda, two New Jersey neighbor besties who finally stopped talking about starting a podcast and actually did it. Every week we're on the porch getting honest about cannabis culture, mom life, adult friendship, and everything in between. No guilt, no gatekeeping, just good conversation and zero apologies. E...