“So you want a strain with less potency,” says the woman in the driver’s seat next to me. It’s a statement that feels dangerously close to an accusation. She’s a marijuana delivery driver I know only as “The Hairdresser,” because nearly every time we meet, she indicates that she’s just come from a hair salon. […]
The cannabis industry just nailed another high-water mark this week, as licensed marijuana producer and cultivator of oils Cronos Group obtained permission from the US Securities and Exchange Commission to begin trading on the coveted Nasdaq Stock Market. The Canadian company is the first pot producer ever to be approved for public trading on the […]
“I have to laugh when I hear people going on about pot names like Cherry Kush this and Green Crack that,” says Carolina dairy farmer Grover D. “You know, those terms are right out of the moonshiner playbook.” Grover’s considerable heft in a pair of worn-out overalls and his towering height at 6’6” creates a […]
Veronica Buisson says lately she gets a particular kind of phone call. The Bay Area property manager describes the general profile of the caller: “They’re a person willing to put down half to a full year of rent upfront — in cash — to lock down a lease.” She notes, the lump-sum cash payers are […]
Marijuana has officially broken through another cultural barrier with the episodic series High Maintenance, now screening on HBO. On the surface, this comedy-drama is a series of vignettes about getting high and maintaining said high. But more so, the show is about human beings and their odd proclivities, social structures, and the things that both […]
Nearly 10 years ago, Paul Krantz recalls smoking a blunt under the bleachers at his high school, blissfully unaware that the financial markets were crumbling all around the globe. “My parents were talking about how their 401(k)’s had just taken a big dive, but really I had no clue what that meant at the time,” […]
Lately, says cannabis farmer Barry T., the harassing phone calls are coming more frequently — an increasing bass beat of angry creditors looking to get paid. “Some days I’ll get several calls from multiple irate people,” laments the Northern California grower. “I feel bad about not being able to pay them. They did great work […]
Less than an hour’s drive outside Los Angeles, the scenery transforms from rolling urban sprawl into parched desert moonscape, blending into an endless movie-set backdrop of sun, rock and sand. You can easily imagine a peyote-soaked Jim Morrison writhing on a slice of the jagged horizon, or a desperate Humphrey Bogart panning for pay dirt […]
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