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Cracking the chemical code
When a plant has a medicinal property, chemists rush to create derivatives and analogs of it. It’s a pattern in Western medicine: Opium poppies...
South Dakota likely to vote on recreational, medical pot initiatives
It looks like one of the most socially conservative states in the country will be voting on not one but two marijuana legalization proposals...
Cheating extinction
When a huge space-rock fell from the sky 66 million years ago, it quickly brought an end to the age of the dinosaurs. Rat-like...
A Deadhead Cyclist pandemic
It’s often said that “every cloud has a silver lining.” This ubiquitous expression is typically rolled out in the spirit of putting a positive...
The cannabis chef
It was New Years Eve 2015. The ball hadn’t dropped yet in New York, but in Colorado it was going down at Chef Jarod “Roilty”...
With little drama, New Mexico moves toward legal marijuana
Ever since Colorado voters legalized recreational marijuana in 2012, the state has been a little like West Berlin during the Cold War — an...
Coming of age in an altered world
In March of 2020 I was studying abroad in Barcelona, Spain with a group of friends, enjoying Europe in the way only a careless...
Legal pot comes to California – thank Jack
On Monday, California became the sixth state in which recreational marijuana is sold legally — with the same absence of fanfare that marked the...
Facebook’s advertising policy interferes with documentary film
Two years after embarking on her latest film project, Mary Janes: The Women of Weed, Windy Borman’s movie was finally and officially done, set...
Hanging up the K-9 harness
Cannabis legalization has made many drug dogs “obsolete,” bringing about early retirement for K-9 police officers everywhere
Hitching a ride to orbit
On April 23, SpaceX launched another crew of astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), the third successful mission of the commercial crew transport...
Just how big a thing will the (legal) pot business be?
Marijuana is becoming big business, but just how big is the marijuana business? New Frontier Data, a consultancy, produced some stats that were turned...
