Weed Between the Lines
Creating a national cannabis brand might be harder than you think
I ran across several stories about Bethenny Frankel, a reality show personality, who, after apparently being spotted coming out of an Aspen dispensary and tweeting her delight at the experience, is rumored to be wanting to cash in on the cannabis business. Frankel ...
The cannabis industry and the golden rule
Every week in the world of cannabis there are timely happenings — new legislation, new businesses, new dimensions of social justice implications — but...
One toke over the bubble machine: Lawrence Welk scores!
Finding out that contemporary Nashville musicians are including cannabis in their songwriting got me to thinking about how cannabis made its way into popular songs and culture...
Pharmaceutical considerations of marijuana edibles
One of the most difficult issues in Colorado’s legal marijuana industry is the regulation of marijuana edibles. There is a risk that unpracticed (or...
The state can’t protect us from ourselves
While the Colorado legislature struggles with ways to make marijuana look different from other food products, another tragic death has been blamed on edibles by the family of an Oklahoma man who shot himself March 21 while on a skiing vacation in Keystone...
Council rethinks its approach to marijuana
Boulder City Council is considering broad changes to its marijuana rules and regulations. The first reading was Sept. 30, with a second reading scheduled for later this month or early November. And this time around, it appears that Council wants to help rather than ...
The 4/20 Special
What does April 20 even mean and why is it associated with cannabis at all?
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...
Dangers of dirty bongs
There are a lot of things I did in college that I would turn my nose up at today, like going to frat parties...
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...
That which shall not be named
On March 25, some Twitter users found that many marijuana-related search terms were being blocked by the platform’s search engine. In addition to marijuana,...
The recreational holdout
Activists in Colorado Springs are still fighting cannabis prohibition 10 years after Colorado ended it—and gaining momentum
