Nightclub & Bar Show in Vegas to feature panel on cannabis
“Monetizing Cannabis” will be a featured panel discussion at the 2017 Nightclub & Bar convention, running March 27-29 in Las Vegas.
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Summit County, ski resort central, has highest rate of marijuana-related ER visits in Colorado
“You have people coming to Colorado and they’re at high altitude and they use marijuana and they’re not sure what to expect and they end up in the emergency room.”
Colorado cannabis: $1.3 billion worth of marijuana sold in 2016
In 2016, Colorado’s dispensaries bagged $1.3 billion in recreational and medical cannabis sales. To compare, Year One of the recreational era totaled $699.2 million and Year Two jumped up to $996.2 million. The trend should continue in Year Four, but beyond that? It’s a murkier proposition.
Alaska marijuana board rejects onsite use at retail shops
Alaska marijuana regulators have rejected a proposal to allow authorized retail pot shops to have areas where customers could consume marijuana products.
Could you soon be able to light up in Alaska marijuana shops? Regulators to begin deliberating
Regulators could decide soon whether to make that happen. At a meeting Thursday in Juneau, they will consider allowing marijuana retail stores statewide to provide separate areas of their businesses for onsite consumption.
Are ganjapreneurs going after healthy living as a new marijuana marketing tactic?
New marijuana marketing tactic? Weed is no longer just for getting high. It’s to help you through your stress, help with sleep and get you in romantic moods.
Has the novelty of visiting Colorado for legal weed worn off?
Fewer tourists visited Colorado in 2016, and the number of travelers saying a visit to a dispensary was a top reason for their visit dropped.
What to believe – and not believe – about North Korea being a stoner’s paradise
North Korea has been getting some pretty high praise lately from the stoner world. Here’s why we wouldn’t recommend lighting up there.
‘A paradigm shift’ in Texas marijuana: These state legislators want to decriminalize weed
These Texas state legislators want to decriminalize marijuana in the Lone Star State. And they aren’t alone.
How soon could Denver businesses open the first social pot use areas? Well, about that…
Denver city officials have a lot of questions to sort through as they prepare to issue new social marijuana use permits mandated by the passage of Initiative 300.
Just say whoa: We’re a more educated public about marijuana than we were in the 1980s
The public’s knowledge and education about marijuana has come a long way from the days of “Just Say No” and D.A.R.E. in the 1980s.
High-CBD products are gaining traction in pot shops and reaching beyond typical consumers, new report shows
High-CBD products are a small segment of Washington’s marijuana market, but sales of the typically medicinal-focused products are growing.
There’s now a cannabis-themed shopping center in Colorado
Another Colorado marijuana first: There’s now a cannabis-themed shopping center in Aurora with a head shop, a dispensary and a hydroponics supply center.
Brothels. Gambling. Expensive cocktails. Will voters add legal weed to Las Vegas’ list of vices?
Nevada already has legal brothels, round-the-clock casinos and a coy catchphrase declaring that “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” If voters approve, the state could soon add another vice in the form of recreational marijuana.
Denver marijuana use ballot measure could capture attention beyond city — if voters say yes
Initiative 300, which is spurring strange bedfellows among opponents, could be ‘shot across the bow’.
Travel TV host Rick Steves: Massachusetts can learn from Europe on marijuana
PBS travel show host Rick Steves says the U.S. can learn from Europe when comes to easing restrictions on marijuana and legalization.
Study finds U.S. marijuana arrests outpace those for violent crime, urges drug decriminalization
New report by prominent human-rights groups notes marijuana arrests outnumber those for violent crimes, highlights the human toll of America’s arrest-first drug policy and urges decriminalization of drug use.
California marijuana legalization might have its greatest impact elsewhere
Would teen use of marijuana drop and roads become safer with California marijuana legalization, as Rep. Ted Lieu has claimed? Or would pot shops begin luring kids with clever TV commercials that push drug-infused candy, as Sen. Dianne Feinstein has argued? In August, those wildly divergent claims landed before Sacramento…
How to smoke weed for maximum enjoyment: Tips for first-timers
Smoking weed for the first time can be a transformative experience that will forever change your life. Or nothing can happen. Our pot critic has a few tips.
S 02, Ep. 25: He’s Colorado’s chief medical officer; He oversees the state’s Marijuana Enforcement Division
Guests: Dr. Larry Wolk, Colorado’s top medical official, and Ron Kammerzell, who oversees the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division. Talking legalization.
Cannabist Show: He’s Colorado’s chief medical officer; He oversees the state’s Marijuana Enforcement Division
Guests: Dr. Larry Wolk, Colorado’s top medical official, and Ron Kammerzell, who oversees the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division. Talking about the rules of legalization, underage stings on shops, teen use and more.
If you build it, they will come: Two locals hope to start the Humboldt County Cannabis Museum
Detailing Humboldt County’s cannabis history — everything from the first harvests in the 1960s up to the potential legalization in California this year — is no small feat.
PBS travel guru Rick Steves touring Massachusetts in support of marijuana legalization
Travel guru Rick Steves is set to tour Massachusetts in support of a pro-marijuana ballot question. Steves is a long-time advocate of easing marijuana laws.
Whispers of sexual abuse and trafficking in the Emerald Triangle’s secretive pot gardens
For decades, the ancient forests of the Emerald Triangle have provided cover for the nation’s largest marijuana-growing industry. But the forests also hide secrets, among them women with stories of sexual abuse and exploitation.
