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...
Risky Business, Part 1: Banking in the marijuana industry
For a bank, analyzing the risk of onboarding a cannabis business as a client is complicated. The legal marijuana industry is emerging and comes...
Ohio cannabis ballot initiative might defeat itself
The state of Ohio announced recently that enough voters had been certified to put Marijuana Legalization Initiative Issue 3 on the 2015 ballot. If passed, it would allow citizens over 21 to buy recreational and medical marijuana much as we do here...
The history of hemp
Under current U.S. drug policy, all cannabis varieties, including hemp, are considered Schedule I controlled substances and are regulated by the Drug Enforcement Administration....
The Obama drug war budget and the definition of insanity
The words were encouraging, especially coming from the surgeon general of the United States. “We have some preliminary data showing that for certain medical conditions and symptoms that marijuana can be helpful. So I think we have to use that data to drive policy ...
Dankward dog
When a person takes psychoactive drugs, the experience is heavily influenced by their surroundings and frame of mind. Sage advice often repeated to first-time...
Grey matter
Many who suffer from chronic HIV use cannabis to control their symptoms. Anecdotally, patients say it helps reduce nausea, eases anxiety, lifts depression and...
Deconstructing stereotypes with David Schmader
I was taught that the two things that I love the most, homosexuality and weed, were completely evil,” says David Schmader, speaker, essayist and author...
Top cannabis moments of 2018
I think we can all agree that this year was disappointing for everything (mostly democracy), so we’re more than happy to throw it out...
Tip of the psychedelic spear
In November 2022, Colorado took a progressive leap forward when the state passed Proposition 122 to legalize the use of natural psychedelic medicines. Now,...
THC tolerance break: Week two/conclusion
When I was 16, my friends and I were arrested after a police officer caught us hot-boxing my grandmother’s Camry in what we thought...
Tokeativity brings cannabis-friendly women’s space to Denver
A lot of people are surprised to learn this because nothing about my personality suggests this, but I was a sorority girl in college. We...
