Pueblo, Colorado, is a great destination for cannabis tourism. They get a lot of customers from Colorado Springs (which prohibits recreational dispensaries) as well as tourists from Oklahoma and Texas. Just forty miles south of Colorado Springs, dispensaries in Pueblo offer a better selection and lower prices than those in Manitou Springs, which is actually […]
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How TerraVida Scaled Up Upwards of 110,000 patients have registered to use medical marijuana in Pennsylvania, and nearly one-third of them are served by the three TerraVida dispensaries in the Philadelphia region. ‘We’re hiring for long-term expansion. Since we opened in February 2018, our staff turnover rate has been zero.’ Chris Visco, Founder, TerraVida dispensaries […]
It’s been less than four months since the first legal adult-use cannabis sale in Massachusetts. Since the initial two stores opened in November, seven more adult-use shops have opened across the state, with five more slated to open in the coming few months. Even the Boston area is expected to see its first shop open […]
Traveling to Hawaii just got a whole lot easier for out-of-state medical marijuana patients. The state Department of Health announced this week that Hawaii will now allow visitors who are qualified to receive medical marijuana elsewhere in the US to register and buy it while visiting the islands. For a $49.50 application fee, out-of-state patients […]
Thanks to legalization, women who couldn’t see themselves reflected in the prohibition-era cannabis marketplace are opening up about their use, and the opportunity for brands to connect with them has never been greater. But with the explosion of brands trying to cater to half the population, it’s tough to discern which are genuinely keen to […]
Last week, almost out of nowhere, the CEO of Whole Foods Market indicated he’s keeping a close eye on cannabis regulation—and suggested cannabis products could one day show up on the grocery chain’s shelves. “If cannabis is ever passed in Texas,” he said at a Texas Tribune–hosted event, “chances are good that grocery stores will […]
When the World Health Organization recommended earlier this year that cannabis be rescheduled under international law, advocates cheered the news. Kenzi Riboulet Zemouli, the head of research at Paris-based drug policy nonprofit FAAAT, called it “the best outcome that WHO could’ve possibly come up with.” RELATED STORY World Health Organization Calls for Cannabis Rescheduling But […]
As of 2019, Legal Cannabis Has Created 211,000 Full-Time Jobs in America How many jobs are there in the legal cannabis industry? It’s a common question—and one the government refuses to answer. Because cannabis remains federally illegal, employment data agencies such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics ignore all jobs related to the industry. Legal […]
Hemp might be federally legal in the 2018 US farm bill and in states like Oregon—but hemp remains illegal in Idaho and other conservative states. That legal schism is making for quite the mess across the US. Despite new national law, hemp’s held up just like its psychoactive cousin, cannabis. The US hemp market is […]
Grace DeNoya is used to getting snickers when people learn she’s majoring in marijuana. “My friends make good-natured jokes about getting a degree in weed,” said DeNoya, one of the first students in a new four-year degree program in medicinal plant chemistry at Northern Michigan University. “I say, ‘No, it’s a serious degree, a chemistry […]
