Weed Between the Lines
The cannabis industry and the golden rule
Every week in the world of cannabis there are timely happenings — new legislation, new businesses, new dimensions of social justice implications — but...
Why edibles may affect you differently than smokables
Here’s something you’ve probably already figured out for yourself: eating weed has a very different effect on you than smoking it. Not that we...
Cannabis taxes a vexing decision
Denver lawyer/activist Robert Corry has become the public face of a campaign to overturn the marijuana taxes proposed by the state legislature for adoption on the November ballot. Amendment AA would place a 15 percent excise tax and a 10 percent sales tax on retail ...
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...
Let’s talk about sex, baby
A Stanford University survey analysis recently found that people who smoke cannabis regularly have more sex than people who don’t. Twenty percent more to be...
Minor cannabinoids could be a major deal
Did you know that cannabis doesn’t actually make THC or CBD? More accurately, it doesn’t make those compounds directly. Heat or light applied to...
Colorado readies retail regulations while feds dither
When retail cannabis shops open in Colorado, most likely in 2014, adults will be able to buy it over-the-counter in Nederland, which recently approved an ordinance governing the sales of retail marijuana within its borders. “We passed what we feel is a solid piece of...
Puerto Rico governor approves medical marijuana
Another U.S. territory will allow medical marijuana for patients. Puerto Rican Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla signed an executive order this week that authorizes marijuana for certain medical uses under the control of the health department...
Getting high goes high-tech
You still smoke weed? That’s adorable. How quaint...
Embracing crypto-cannabis
Digital currencies and tangible chronic are coming together in a variety of ways, but what’s the benefit?
Wholesale cannabis price drops 40 percent
According to Tradiv, a cannabis trading platform based in Boulder, wholesale cannabis prices have fallen from approximately $2,500 per pound in October of 2015...
Let’s talk about CBG
With more than 120 identified cannabinoid compounds found in cannabis, you can bet your bottom dollar you’re going to keep seeing new cannabis products...