Weed Between the Lines
Weed gets the votes; pot sales fall; edibles in confusion
It should be no surprise that the working group tasked with coming up with a recommendation to the legislature about how cannabis edibles should be marked ended after four sessions and no consensus...
Shaping growth
The color of light plants grow under makes an enormous difference in their physical properties, which is critical knowledge when you’re growing a specific...
Lessons from prohibition about treating marijuana like alcohol
On Dec. 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified and alcohol prohibition in America came to an end.
Although...
Green incentives for the green industry
Every morning as Boulder County wakes up, so do many of the county’s cannabis grows. Between the hours of 8 and 9 a.m., grow...
How one congressman could stop DC decriminalization
We should get some indication of how the new Republican Congress feels about cannabis when it convenes in January. The District of Columbia intends to offer Initiative 71, its recent law decriminalizing marijuana possession, to the new Congress as soon as it is ...
Street Legal
Drunk driving wasn’t illegal in all 50 states until 1988. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act not only set the age of consumption to...
Calming cows
Feeding hemp to cattle is safe for consumers, new research suggests, and it’s actually good for the cows too
Closing the loop
CDPHE pilot proves breweries’ carbon dioxide emissions can be used to grow cannabis—now businesses need to get on board
Why not use common sense with edibles?
After reading about all these horrible experiences visitors are having with edibles, I decided to find out what all the fuss was about. Everybody’s heard about Maureen Dowd’s eight hours of hotel terror by now, but even ace cannabis correspondent Jacob Sullum had a ...
You’ve got to concentrate
At the risk of sounding old, back in our day you just rolled a joint or packed a bowl when you wanted to enjoy...
The penguin at the tip of the iceberg
We moved from Phoenix to Washington when I was 15 years old where I watched the trees of Washington get lawn-mowed by the logging...
CBS slaps down Weedmaps’ Times Square ad
More good news about the end of cannabis prohibition. A new PEW poll indicates that 75 percent of voters say legalization is a foregone conclusion. Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer, who along with Rep. Jared Polis has been pushing legislation for cannabis ...
