Weed Between the Lines
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,...
The frying pan and the egg
In 1996, my fifth grade class at Mesa Elementary and I earned our sheriff’s badge from Darren the D.A.R.E. lion. We walked across a...
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...
It’s not your grandfather’s marijuana any more
Assuming some of those 148 stores that were granted state licenses have been able to jump through all the other legislative hoops and actually have their doors open, and the state has been able to get its vaunted “seed-tosale” tracking system up and running (still ...
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,...
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 ...
Opioids, cannabis, scientists and money, lots of it
The numbers are compelling. As Americans seek more relief from pain and companies come up with ever-stronger drugs to ease discomfort, so do mortality rates rise for the growing number of patients who use opioid pain relievers. The Centers for Disease Control and ...
A rose by any other name
File this one in the “academics have way too much time on their hands” folder.
My guess is you didn’t wake up this morning wondering...
A warrior lost
We are lucky to live in Colorado.
Sure the mountains and recreation are great but that’s not what I’m talking about.
We are lucky to live...
Honoring Colorado’s early cannabis entrepreneurs
There’s a lot of talk these days about cannabis and big business. Corporate entities, cigarette companies and other greedy, moneyed interests, the reasoning goes, are poised to swoop in and kill off the local folks who built the cannabis industry and turn it into ...
A rose by any other name…
Would weed by any other scent still work like weed? What if the weed had no scent indeed?
Perhaps the days of the doob tube...
Mythbusting
At the end of his life, the great mythologist and storyteller Joseph Campbell said, “Go on, live your life, it’s a good life —...


















