Weed Between the Lines
A New Leaf chronicles the demise of prohibition
If A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition sometimes reads as if it were being written as history was unfolding, that’s because it was. Journalists Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian began working on A New Leaf as the cannabis reform movement was gaining momentum...
The penguin at the tip of the iceberg, part II
Some days I am hopeful and some days I am not,” says Rob Jungmann, hemp activist and owner of Portland-based hemp clothing company, Jungmaven....
Hemp and the woolly mammoth’s hair piece
It’s no secret that hemp is one of the most misunderstood plants in history. For centuries, it has been used by all kinds of people for all kinds of things — clothing to car construction, bioplastics to building supplies, food to fuel...
The perfect storm
The announcement that Trump plans to nominate Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions to Attorney General startled many with a stake in marijuana and drug law...
Nugs and nuptials
We’re about halfway through wedding season, which is arguably the most arduous part of being 27, right after trying to justify why you don’t...
Criminal
As soon as the wheels touched the tarmac at St. Louis’s Lambert airport, everyone on the plane scrambled for their phones, eager to find...
Sacrament
Daniel McQueen makes a bold statement: Cannabis sativa can produce an experience as deep and profound as those induced by psychedelics.
As the proprietor...
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...
Better living through automation
As the marijuana industry scales up across the globe, technology is rising to meet the occasion.
That’s right, friends: Robots are going to be harvesting...
Risky Business, Part II: Credit cards no longer accepted
"I get asked five times a week by people who want to run Visa and Mastercard through Jane,” says David Ellerstein, CEO of Jane, a...
Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3
Experiences with edibles can vary wildly, even when following instructions on the box. Sure, some strains are headier than others, but researchers in Oakland,...
Commercial cannabis at six months: The sky hasn’t fallen
We are just past the six-month point in the state’s roll-out of commercial sales of cannabis, and from all indications, it’s been an unspectacular but successful half a year, especially for a state whose social experiment has been under local and international media ...
