Advocacy Newsflash: Weed still isn’t legal in California. It has been decriminalized for consumers aged 21 and up and a taxed and regulated commercial market
Social media is a blessing and a curse for any business, but more so for cannabis companies than perhaps any other. In theory, it gives
When Prop 64 was passed in California in 2016, it was done against the will of countless legacy operators who could see the writing on
We have come a long way since the days of poorly purged, crumbly, spark-shooting dabs of Butane Hash Oil (BHO), or at least, most of
In response to the so-called “War on Drugs”, the late, great Bill Hicks once said, “You know what that implies? There’s a war being fought,
Curbside cannabis sales are likely gaining in popularity for a lot of reasons, not the least of which being that most of us bought weed that way for a decade or more before we walked into our first dispensary. For every customer that is impressed with multiple digital flatscreen menus or wants or needs to be educated by a budtender, there are 10 more that just want what they want as quickly and as affordably as possible. The continued success of the “traditional” street market is a testament to that.
Maybe I have too much time on my hands for thinking these days, and maybe the writer in me has too much appreciation for vocabulary, but every time I read or hear the word “essential” being tacked onto cannabis, I’m reminded of the famous line from the film The Princess Bride – “You keep using that word… I do not think it means what you think it means.”
It goes without saying that anyone who has stepped up to the torch within the past ten years owes a massive amount of gratitude to the OGs who literally blazed the trail through those darker days but so do the rest of us in the cannabis culture who continue to marvel at, and smoke from, the most amazing functional art the world has ever seen.
