Most of what you read here is written in-house and published under the Stoner Singles name rather than an individual byline. One article, our guide to 420 dating, was commissioned from Macey Wolfer, a Seattle cannabis journalist whose work appears in VICE, mg Magazine and Cannabis & Tech Today. This page sets out how any of it gets checked.
Plenty of dating sites publish advice with no indication of where it came from or how anyone checked it. That is the part that actually matters, so it is the part this page is about: who wrote what, what we will put a number next to, what we refuse to guess at, and what happens when we get something wrong.
Macey Wolfer, cannabis journalist
Macey is a journalist and writer based in Seattle, covering cannabis and wellness. Her work has appeared in VICE, mg Magazine, Cannabis & Tech Today, Mezcalistas, Betches, Medical Marijuana 411 and MJBI. Her published archive is collected on Muck Rack and on her own site.
She is currently content director for Fireweed Cannabis, a tribal-led dispensary in Snoqualmie, Washington. Before that she was a public relations specialist at the cannabis PR firm Proven Media, and assistant editor of the trade journal MJBI. Social equity in cannabis and the position of Indigenous growers are the subjects she returns to most often.
We commissioned her to write one piece for us: What is 420 dating?, the guide to what cannabis-friendly dating actually involves. That is the only article on this site with her name on it, and it will stay that way unless we commission her again. Borrowing a journalist's byline for work she did not do would defeat the point of having it.
Everything else is written in-house
The dating guides, the platform comparisons and the review of this site are written in-house and published under the Stoner Singles name. There is no individual byline on them, and that is deliberate. A personal name on an article is a claim about a person, and it is only worth something if you can go and check that person for yourself. Where we cannot offer you that, we would rather carry the site's name and be accountable as a business.
It does mean you are taking the writing on its own merits rather than on someone's reputation, so the fairest test is the articles themselves. Start with the comparison of the best 420 dating apps, where several competitors beat us on specific points.
How we check what goes on the page
Anything we say about another dating platform, its price, its free tier, its verification tools, comes from that platform's own website, app store listing or help pages. Review sites and affiliate roundups are not a source. When a platform does not publish its price, our comparison table says so, and we do not fill the gap with a number from a review site.
When a claim rests on research, we name the organisation behind it and describe what it actually measured. General statistics about dating, cannabis use or relationships get attributed or they get cut.
We do not publish statistics about our own members that we cannot evidence. If we run a survey, we will say how many people answered, when it ran, and that the sample was self-selecting, because members who choose to answer a survey are not a random sample of anybody.
What happens when we get it wrong
Our first-date poll page used to carry a full set of percentages, vote counts and a country-by-country split. None of it was real. It was sample content generated when the site was built, and it should never have been presented as member research.
We took the figures down and rewrote the page to say what had happened, instead of deleting it and hoping nobody noticed. The correction is still there. You can still read it.
If you spot something on this site that looks wrong, tell the support team and we will check it. Where it is wrong, we will fix it on the page.
Who writes the articles on Stoner Singles?
Most of them are written in-house and published under the Stoner Singles name rather than an individual byline. One article, the guide to 420 dating, was commissioned from Macey Wolfer, a Seattle cannabis journalist whose work appears in VICE, mg Magazine and Cannabis & Tech Today.
Why do most articles not carry an individual author's name?
Because a personal byline is only useful if you can check the person behind it. Where we cannot offer you a verifiable individual, we publish under the site's name and take responsibility as a business instead. Commissioned work from a named journalist carries that journalist's name, and only on what they actually wrote.
Does Stoner Singles publish corrections?
Yes, and we leave them up. Our first-date poll page previously carried percentages and vote counts presented as member research. They were sample content produced when the site was built, not the results of a real poll. The figures were removed and the page now explains what went wrong rather than quietly deleting the evidence.
How do you check facts about other dating apps?
Prices, free tiers and features are checked against each platform's own website, app store listing or help pages, not against review sites. Where a platform does not publish its price, our comparison says exactly that instead of quoting a figure we cannot stand behind.
How do I contact the Stoner Singles editorial team?
Use the 24/7 support team, reachable by chat, phone and message. If you think something on this site is wrong, tell us and we will check it. If it is wrong we will correct it on the page rather than take the page down.