In Washington, placing an order for a pot delivery is now as easy as dialing up for a pizza. Only with marijuana orders, …
Cannabis Industry
Marijuana Movement Seizes Super Bowl Spotlight
This year’s Super Bowl seems to be perfect for the marketing of marijuana, and pot entrepreneurs and activists are seizing the moment.
Why ATMs in Legal Pot Shops Are Wreaking Havoc
Many of the Colorado shops that are licensed to sell marijuana have installed ATMs, for the convenience of their customers. What could possibly go wrong?
It’s High Times for High Times Magazine
Forty years ago a drug-smuggling, leftist radical who went by the alias Tom Forçade launched an underground magazine called High Times. The periodical tapped into a 1970s drug culture that was accepting of marijuana (among other …
Colorado’s Pot Shops Say They’ll Be Sold Out Any Day Now
A few days into the experiment, the new world of legal-recreational-marijuana sales in Colorado appears to be a big success — so much so that pot shops are finding it impossible to keep up with demand.
Colorado’s ‘High Country’ Takes on New Meaning
Some are saying that marijuana tourism could rival the state’s multi-billion dollar ski and snowboard industry.
Online Drug Markets Are Alive and Thriving
Silk Road is a black-market website on which buyers and sellers of illicit products, mostly drugs, could come together anonymously using software like Tor, which conceals web browsers’ identity. When the FBI announced this week …
A Starbucks for Pot? National Chain of Marijuana Stores in the Works
If one newly converted pot-smoking visionary has his way, the Washington-based company he created will become the Starbucks or Coca Cola of the cannabis industry.
Will High Marijuana Taxes Encourage Black Markets?
Correction appended on February 23rd at 11:40 a.m.
Opponents of marijuana prohibition had one heck of a year in 2012, as voters in both Washington and Colorado passed ballot initiatives legalizing recreational use of the drug. …