Weed Between the Lines
The importance of icaros
Medicine songs like the Amazonian icaros are a standard tool used by shamans in ayahuasca-healing ceremonies. Often sung in Spanish, Quechua, or other Amazonian...
The wrong labels
Indica, sativa, hybrid. Walk into any Colorado dispensary and the products on the shelves will be classified under one of those three familiar categories....
The cannabis downturn
The last 14 months have been the longest sustained downturn for Colorado’s cannabis industry since state-licensed retail sales started in 2014.
According to numbers released...
Recipe for success: Cooking up a legal cannabis market
Colorado and Washington were the first states in the country, and the world for that matter, to legalize cannabis for adult use, almost simultaneously...
Muddied waters
Hemp farmers everywhere sighed with relief when the Farm Bill was renewed in 2018. That renewal effectively decontrolled hemp, removing the plant from the...
Q&A with Vangst founder Karson Humiston
I’ve been working in the cannabis space for a year now, so I get a lot of questions about how to get involved. It’s...
A day in the life of Barrett Rogers
Barrett Rogers is a pretty normal guy. He lives with his wife in Big Elk Meadows, about 10 miles outside of Lyons. Every morning...
Smoke like a star
I pay attention to celebrity culture. I can name all the Kardashian sisters, and I have a favorite. I’ve spent hours researching the cultural references...
Keep your eye on the ball
How a vigilant hemp advocacy organization rallied against a special interest group's bastardized hemp regulation bill
Smelly business
Cannabis grow ops might stink like pollution, but state research suggests we’re just smelling things
How to survive Thanksgiving: A definitive guide
Real talk, Thanksgiving sucks. It’s embarrassing that white people made up a holiday to celebrate the European invasion of North America that resulted in...
Attack of the lobbyists: SAM
Colorado Democrats worked with anti-cannabis lobbying organizations to pass HB 1317, regulating concentrates and limiting patient access to medicine
