Weed Between the Lines
Finding the right marijuana spokesperson
The first recreational marijuana shops opened in Massachusetts this week, after the state voted to legalize cannabis in 2016.
It’s been a long time...
The omnibus stowaway
Among the many provisions, amendments, compromises and acts strapped aboard the omnibus spending bill, buried down on page 5,136, is a provision aimed at...
Out of prison, into the biz
When Coss Marte first got into New York City’s cannabis industry in the ’90s he was just 11 years old. But he was a...
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...
Drug policy is a race issue and also a human issue
When I was a student at the University of Colorado I sat on the steps of Libby Hall with all my white friends with...
It’s not easy being green. Or is it?
Let’s level with each other: There’s a lot of one-time-use plastic involved in the cannabis industry. There. We said it. The elephant has been...
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....
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...
I want you! (to vote for me)
As in any industry, cannabis retailers are eager to catch the attention of shoppers, hoping to sway eyes and dollars toward their products and...
Smelly business
Cannabis grow ops might stink like pollution, but state research suggests we’re just smelling things
A last ditch effort
In the 1970s and ’80s, Robert J. Riley was a Deadhead, following the Grateful Dead around the country in pursuit of the music and...
