Published: Feb 5, 2018, 11:56 am • Updated: Feb 5, 2018, 11:57 am By Lisa M. Krieger, Bay Area News Group BIG SUR — For decades, hidden in creases of the wild and rugged Santa Lucia Mountains, farmers have eked out a living growing some of the nation’s most esteemed cannabis, hanging onto the hope […]
Published: Feb 24, 2017, 2:14 pm • Updated: Feb 24, 2017, 6:19 pm By The Cannabist Staff Featured guests: Sprig co-founder Michael Lewis and Resolution ResCaps innovator Dakota Wesley. LOTS TO TALK ABOUT • Millennials in marijuana. • With a cannabis cocktail, a splash of soda can be enough. • The future of interstate cannabis […]
Published: Oct 13, 2017, 4:20 pm • Updated: Oct 13, 2017, 5:54 pm By Ian Gassman, Special to The Cannabist It’s Friday the 13th and Halloween is just around the corner, so the first installment of The Cannabist’s SmokeSongs is channeling your deepest fears. If the idea of kids (and, sometimes, drunken adults) knocking on […]
Weed – legal weed, that is — has come to midtown Manhattan.Cannabis retailer MedMen opened its first dispensary in the city Friday as part of a bold bet on growth in the state. MedMen, based in Los Angeles, paid $26 million last year to acquire a firm that held one of two licenses for a […]
Published: Mar 3, 2018, 6:00 am • Updated: Mar 2, 2018, 2:47 pm By The Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin farmers who want to grow industrial hemp can now apply for a state license. The Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection began accepting applications Friday. The deadline to apply for the upcoming […]
Published: Nov 27, 2017, 5:36 pm • Updated: Dec 9, 2017, 9:15 am By The Cannabist Staff Getting the perfect gift for somebody is a bit of an art. It’s all about thinking about what a person needs or secretly wants, and in the cannabis sphere, there are so many options. As you work through […]
Published: Sep 22, 2017, 9:45 am • Updated: Sep 22, 2017, 9:45 am By Jack Encarnacao, Boston Herald Cities and towns that avoided a ban on pot shops are now looking at ways to extract revenue from the burgeoning industry. The city manager in Worcester — which, when medicinal weed was legalized in 2012, signed […]
Published: Sep 29, 2017, 9:24 am • Updated: Sep 29, 2017, 6:46 pm By The Cannabist Staff To celebrate National Coffee Day, we’re trying out the about-to-be-released instant Clockwork coffee from Colorado’s own Stillwater. Sort of like Starbuck’s Via, but infused with 5 to 10 milligrams of THC. Stand by for our review. In the […]
Published: Oct 16, 2017, 11:46 am • Updated: Oct 16, 2017, 11:58 am By Ed O’Keefe and Scott Higham and Lenny Bernstein, The Washington Post WASHINGTON – Congressional Democrats on Monday reacted sharply to reports that President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the nation’s drug czar helped steer legislation that made it harder for […]
Published: Mar 11, 2018, 2:06 pm • Updated: Mar 11, 2018, 2:07 pm By Kristie Cattafi, The Record of Woodland Park CLIFTON, N.J. — Edward “Lefty” Grimes was in pain. It had been an hour since he’d arrived at the Clifton police station with what should have been a straightforward question: Where could he legally […]