If ever you happened to score a bag of weed in the US during the 1970s or 1980s, there’s a decent chance that herb came from somewhere south of the border in Latin America. Before Humboldt County — and Northern California in general — became synonymous with high-grade pot, farmers in countries like Mexico and […]
If you’ve enjoyed legal cannabis in the US over the past couple of decades, you can thank a medical marijuana advocate for that. For more than 40 years, pro-cannabis activists from California to Washington, DC have rallied and lobbied on behalf of patients afflicted with ailments ranging from AIDS to epilepsy. California is the undeniable […]
“I think you either love the smell of weed or you hate it,” says Portland native Linda Hoffman. While some people might agree with that assessment, it’s not 100 percent accurate. Humans — particularly American humans — have been conditioned over the past half century or so to associate the skunky smell of cannabis with […]
While Canada’s move to legalize cannabis in 2018 was a massive leap forward for the pot industry, it hasn’t come without significant growing pains. Moving from a medical cannabis system serving roughly 200,000 Canadian patients in 2017 to a recreational market with now many millions of consumers has meant a steep learning curve. Problems have […]
“I just really love taking photos of marijuana,” says photographer Jenny Molloy. “It’s the perfect subject that’s forever changing and developing, particularly right now with marijuana legalization and acceptance of it in so much of America. Cannabis photography is becoming more stylish.” In the past, capturing images of cannabis often meant complicated arrangements with reticent […]
Last week saw a major victory for cannabis as the 2018 Farm Bill overwhelmingly passed the House and Senate, a move that would lead to the removal of hemp from the Controlled Substances Act. The bill, which is also known as the Agriculture and Nutrition Act, will end hemp’s confounding Schedule I classification alongside heroin, […]
From Thai Stick to Blue Dream to Lemon Haze, cannabis cultivators have always known the selling power behind a good name. There was a period — during the nascent years of pot smuggling into the United States, circa 1970 — when geography played a vital role in creating a kind of brand awareness around the […]
There was a stretch of time in the late 2000s that Deborah T. says were the salad days of her medical cannabis delivery business. “That was really a heyday,” she recalls of that period, when profits were fat and her biggest concern was having an attorney on hand in the event of a run-in with […]
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