Weed Between the Lines
A sane, sensible approach to public cannabis consumption
One of the conundrums surrounding the implementation of Amendment 64 is that while you can buy marijuana in Colorado, there aren’t many places where you can legally use it in a social setting. Citizens are pretty much limited to their homes or a friend’s house or ...
A progressive wish-list
The cannabis world was abuzz last week after Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Corey Booker (D-N.J.) proposed a new cannabis reform...
Growing pot
The legal cannabis industry has gone through a lot these last few years — from prohibition into the light; from nascent industry to startup...
A day in the life of Barrett Rogers
Barrett Rogers is a pretty normal guy. He lives with his wife in Big Elk Meadows, about 10 miles outside of Lyons. Every morning...
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 ...
Canada take one: Weed is legal there so I’m moving
It’s a time-honored tradition that whenever some political drama is going down, thousands of Americans will literally threaten to move to Canada, a country...
The Griner double standard
In mid-November, just months into Brittney Griner’s nine-year sentence for criminal drug charges in Russia, the WNBA star was transferred to a penal colony to...
Emergency rule keeps cannabis magazines on the shelves
Probably the strangest paragraph in Colorado’s first attempt to regulate marijuana was the one that stipulated that “magazines whose primary focus is marijuana or marijuana businesses are only sold in retail marijuana stores or behind the counter in establishments ...
Promises, promises
Election season is upon us. Candidates are campaigning, the company formerly known as Twitter (now X) is bubbling with political activity, and, of course,...
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...
Seeing the light
Since the days of prohibition, the light source of choice for indoor cannabis grows has been high pressure sodium (HPS) light bulbs.
HPS bulbs have...
The power of a platform
The physical menu is a dying tradition. Even prior to COVID-19, many businesses were starting to switch over to a digital means of communicating...