Cannabis Corner
Surprise! Ex-FDA head wants FDA to regulate pot
Scott Gottlieb wants you to know that marijuana legalization is behind the recent spike in the number of cases of lung damage and deaths...
Pot and the press: 100 years of fake news
Chris, a budtender in Steamboat Springs and an aspiring freelance writer, had a great post on The Weed Blog last week. It ought to...
Kicking Sessions’ can down the road
That mysterious object sailing majestically past the Justice Department high above Pennsylvania Avenue was the marijuana policy can being kicked down the road by...
Start-up nation is also stoner nation
What country has the highest per-capita number of marijuana users?
According to a recent story in U.S. News & World Report, that honor belongs to...
Drug-testing companies can’t find workers
Heh.
Other than the mass arrests (25 million and counting for pot alone since 1965), probably the ugliest thing that came out of the war...
New Jersey marijuana politics and ‘Murphy’s Law’ (in a good way)
I’ve argued before in this space that Republicans’ continued opposition to marijuana legalization could start costing the party’s candidates elections if it doesn’t change.
That...
Evolution in action on the right coast
Cynthia Nixon may have lost her primary, but she seems to have won her point.
Earlier this year, the Sex and the City actress mounted...
Three-dot journalism comes to Cannabis Corner
And then there were five. At midnight last Saturday (July 1) Nevada became the fifth state in which recreational marijuana could be sold and...
The legislature comes through for pot
The just-concluded session of the Colorado legislature passed a clutch of marijuana reform bills that ensure the state will continue to be in the...
What’s in a strain name? Results vary
What’s in a name? When it comes to marijuana strains, results vary — sometimes spectacularly. And according to a story in Marijuana Business Daily,...
Protecting cannabis farmers
From wildly unpredictable weather patterns to unwanted cross-pollination, there’s a lot to worry about when you’re an outdoor cannabis farmer.
So Colorado built a safety...
Michael Bloomberg’s awful record on pot
Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor who a few days ago slithered into the race for the Democrats’ presidential nomination, wants to ban...
