Weed Between the Lines
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...
Keep your eye on the ball
How a vigilant hemp advocacy organization rallied against a special interest group's bastardized hemp regulation bill
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...
Is the DEA moving toward real change, or is it just...
When the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced on August 11 that they would not reschedule marijuana, which would have been an acknowledgement of its...
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...
New study suggests stoners work out longer and harder than sober...
For as long as literally anyone can remember, there have been rumors that smoking weed every day turns you into a sedentary loser. Before...
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....
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...
The magic of mushrooms
When Gov. Jared Polis signed Colorado’s SB23-290, the Natural Medicine Regulation and Legalization bill, it decriminalized five natural psychedelic compounds: DMT, ibogaine, mescaline, psilocybin...
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...
Happy ‘Danksgiving’
Food prices are higher than ever, and the holidays are here. The supply chain is snarled and kinked, severe droughts desiccated Europe all summer,...
Partaking in public
Colorado has a lot of cannabis dispensaries. As of 2018 there were just over 14 dispensaries for every 100,000 residents, according to Verilife. There...
