Weed Between the Lines
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...
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,...
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...
Getting legalization ‘right’
Years ago, when Andrew Freedman was the acting director of cannabis coordination for the state of Colorado, he was having conversations with businesses and...
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...
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...
Concentrated regulation
After months of contentious debate, close to 30 amendments in the Colorado legislative session, and a veto request letter from over 100 medical marijuana...
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...
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...
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 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....
