Chris Roberts

Strains

Gassy Strains Revive with East Coast Legalization

Strains heavy on fuel notes – NYC Sour Diesel, Chem Dog, and their progeny – powered...

Current Events

4/20 Exclusive: Legal Cannabis in New York City

Happy Munkey, New York’s pre-legalization cannabis speakeasy, stepped out on the state's first legal 4/20.

Strains

Candyland is the Daytime-Friendly Child of Granddaddy Purple

From legendary cultivator Ken Estes, creator of the mythical GDP, comes this lighter, more cerebral Cookies...

Medical

Does Cannabis Keep You Young?

An Australian biomed company hopes so! The company is banking on CBD for an anti-aging miracle...

Economics

CBD Company Pivots to Hand Sanitizer

Other cannabis companies with extraction and manufacturing capacity could follow Green Ridge Biosolutions’ example.

CBD

Let Them Eat CBD

The CBD craze comes to the continent.

Industry Events

Coronavirus Cancels 420

Indefinite ban on large crowds during COVID-19 crisis means annual 420 events in San Francisco, Denver...

Medical

SF Temporarily Closes Cannabis Stores Over Coronavirus Fears

Order late Monday triggers weed-buying stampede in San Francisco. Oakland, LA, others wait.

Economics

Coronavirus Triggers Run on Amsterdam Coffeeshops

Panic and long queues Sunday transition to orderly business and to-go orders in European cannabis capital.

Medical

Vape Illnesses Diminish

The outbreak of lung injuries related to vaporizer use seems to have subsided. What did we...

Economics

Fire Damages Cannabis Institution Oaksterdam University

Arson singes downtown buildings of cannabis college and adjacent Patient ID center. Classes were going online...

Legal

Feds Request Records From Weedmaps

Weedmaps has been subpoenaed by the federal government.

Legal

How Texas Accidentally Decriminalized Cannabis

Differentiating hemp from cannabis causes law enforcement to back away from testing low-level busts.

Legal

Amsterdam Is Trying to Kill Its Own Cannabis Tourism

Dutch capital is sick of foreign visitors. One technique to halt the swarm of foreigners with...

Economics

Canadian Cannabis Buyers Want Mids

Banking futures on $100 super-premium grams hasn’t worked out well for Aurora or other publicly traded...

Joint Opinions

Bloomberg Is the Worst Candidate in the Race on Marijuana

Listen to @Fatjew: The former New York City mayor has an abysmal record on cannabis and...

Legal

L.A. County Voids 66,000 Marijuana Convictions

Expungements take place three years into legalization and show L.A.’s district attorney may be eyeing a...

Politics

With Brexit Done, Why Won’t Boris Johnson Fix British Medical Cannabis?

The Conservative prime minister’s party is still reserving medical cannabis access to only the richest of...

Hemp

Kanye West Is Still Waiting on Donald Trump to Grow Hemp

Wyoming, where Kanye West owns thousands of acres, is where the musician said he’d start cultivating...

Culture

Is the Data You Give to Cannabis Dispensaries Safe?

Personal data from 30,000 cannabis customers leaked from an Amazon Web Services bucket used by a...