Weed Between the Lines
The importance of icaros
Medicine songs like the Amazonian icaros are a standard tool used by shamans in ayahuasca-healing ceremonies. Often sung in Spanish, Quechua, or other Amazonian...
Punch the gas
Four years ago, the House passed Colorado’s Regulated Marijuana Delivery bill. The purpose was twofold: One, to make it possible for medical patients and...
The cannabis downturn
The last 14 months have been the longest sustained downturn for Colorado’s cannabis industry since state-licensed retail sales started in 2014.
According to numbers released...
Higher propagation
Mother plants are a staple in most commercial cannabis operations. Shoots from a mother plant are cut and their severed ends are dipped in...
‘An environmental crime’
The illegal grow operations John Nores with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (CDFW) Marijuana Enforcement Team would break up were all different....
Promises half delivered
Speaking at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast hosted by the National Action Network, President Joe Biden once again broached the subject of...
Training psychedelic therapists
On Sept. 30, 2024, Colorado’s Natural Medicine Advisory board will make its first recommendations (Weed Between the Lines, “Tip of the psychedelic spear,” Dec....
Climbing the learning curve
If there is one argument that opponents of legal cannabis like to fall back on, it’s that “there’s not enough research to know the effects.”
And...
Looking back, looking forward
The fight to end cannabis prohibition continues to be fought, and won, across the country. Every single year more states hop aboard the legalization...
Higher knowledge
The first time Josh Crossney organized the Cannabis Science Conference in Portland, Oregon, was in April of 2016. Without federal legalization, the science behind...
The Griner double standard
In mid-November, just months into Brittney Griner’s nine-year sentence for criminal drug charges in Russia, the WNBA star was transferred to a penal colony to...
Students of cannabis
Erin Johnson was enrolled in the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences when she took her first cannabis class. As...
