Weed Between the Lines
After a year, it appears that legalization might just work
It’s hard to believe that it’s been one full year since retail cannabis shops opened, and two full years that cannabis has been legal in Colorado. So much has happened, but the best news of all is that, all things considered, the experiment seems to be working...
Organic cannabis
If eating organic is important to you, smoking it should be, too. The difference between organic cannabis and conventionally grown cannabis is similar to...
Council needs to clarify the ‘incidental advertising’ issue
What a long, strange trip it’s become, even though it’s just been a little more than a month...
Embracing crypto-cannabis
Digital currencies and tangible chronic are coming together in a variety of ways, but what’s the benefit?
Medically validating pot: Canada’s first medical cannabis clinical trial
Across the U.S., thousands of medical patients use cannabis to treat their anxiety, chronic pain, sleeplessness, arthritis and even epilepsy every day, as medical...
Pandemic of the unregulated
In 2019 there was a different pandemic sweeping the nation, wreaking havoc on people’s lungs, putting some in the hospital and others in early...
Could Boulder price itself out of the pot market?
I support taxes on sales of marijuana, but I’m scratching my head a little over the latest proposal before the Boulder City Council to place a 15 percent city excise tax on grow and infusion facilities and a 10 percent city sales tax on marijuana on the November ...
How one congressman could stop DC decriminalization
We should get some indication of how the new Republican Congress feels about cannabis when it convenes in January. The District of Columbia intends to offer Initiative 71, its recent law decriminalizing marijuana possession, to the new Congress as soon as it is ...
The sound of hemp
Hemp is truly a super-plant: It can be turned into CBD to treat a spectrum of health ailments; it can be turned into textiles...
Commercial cannabis at six months: The sky hasn’t fallen
We are just past the six-month point in the state’s roll-out of commercial sales of cannabis, and from all indications, it’s been an unspectacular but successful half a year, especially for a state whose social experiment has been under local and international media ...
Defining craft cannabis
Skywalker OG. Sour Diesel. LA Confidential. With dozens of different strains available to choose from, each emitting a different aroma and promising a different...
Growing through a labor shortage
It isn’t news at this point so much as common knowledge: Businesses are struggling to hire the help they need. Restaurants, bars, cafes, grocery...
