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Apr 20, 2022
Growth Spurt: Family run CoCo Farms eyes California expansion
Brothers Andrew and Martin Wesley spent 25 years working in different startups in Silicon Valley prior to entering the cannabis industry. I spoke with Martin last Thursday, and he credits their experience in the startup industry as...
Apr 20, 2022
Weed Work: Oaksterdam University is still a driving force for equity in cannabis
During the last two years of Covid, as well as the tumultuous, oh let’s say four years, before that, there has been a great rethink in what is really worth doing with our time. Many of us...
Apr 13, 2022
Coast to Coast: Oakland, New York loves your weed
To see the impact of Oakland cannabis culture, look no further than NYC. That’s right, my first entry as I take over Oakland’s premier cannabis column is about New York City.
Just last week, I was on holiday...
Mar 9, 2022
Same Same: The distinction between indica and sativa may sound good, but it’s total...
On its website, San Francisco-based Pax Labs, a pioneer of cannabis vaping products, has devoted a page to explaining the differences between the indica and sativa types of cannabis. Indicas, it says, “are typically relaxing and calming...
Mar 2, 2022
Lazy Potheads?: According to a new study, weed can be a great motivator
In 2010, I launched a cannabis blog for Slate’s business-news site, unfortunately called The Big Money. It was named after a 1936 novel by the then-socialist writer John Dos Passos, but nobody got the reference and the...
Feb 23, 2022
Sin Tax: Overtaxation is stifling the legal cannabis industry
In fighting for the passage of Proposition 64 in 2016, advocates of legal cannabis issued no warnings about how overtaxation could stifle the legal industry’s prospects. In fact, they did the precise opposite, telling voters and government...
Feb 16, 2022
An Odd Space: These Democrats oppose legalization
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer last week unveiled his timeline for debating a bill to legalize cannabis. His efforts, along with those of Democrat co-sponsors Sen. Cory Booker, of N.J., and Sen. Ron Wyden, of Ore., appear...
