Stories By Chris Roberts
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Economics
CBD Company Pivots to Hand Sanitizer
March 24, 2020Other cannabis companies with extraction and manufacturing capacity could follow Green Ridge Biosolutions’ example.
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Industry Events
Coronavirus Cancels 420
March 19, 2020Indefinite ban on large crowds during COVID-19 crisis means annual 420 events in San Francisco, Denver...
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Medical
SF Temporarily Closes Cannabis Stores Over Coronavirus Fears
March 17, 2020Order late Monday triggers weed-buying stampede in San Francisco. Oakland, LA, others wait.
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Economics
Coronavirus Triggers Run on Amsterdam Coffeeshops
March 17, 2020Panic and long queues Sunday transition to orderly business and to-go orders in European cannabis capital.
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Medical
Vape Illnesses Diminish
March 14, 2020The outbreak of lung injuries related to vaporizer use seems to have subsided. What did we...
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Economics
Fire Damages Cannabis Institution Oaksterdam University
March 13, 2020Arson singes downtown buildings of cannabis college and adjacent Patient ID center. Classes were going online...
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Legal
Feds Request Records From Weedmaps
March 5, 2020Weedmaps has been subpoenaed by the federal government.
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Legal
How Texas Accidentally Decriminalized Cannabis
March 5, 2020Differentiating hemp from cannabis causes law enforcement to back away from testing low-level busts.
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Legal
Amsterdam Is Trying to Kill Its Own Cannabis Tourism
March 2, 2020Dutch capital is sick of foreign visitors. One technique to halt the swarm of foreigners with...
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Economics
Canadian Cannabis Buyers Want Mids
February 29, 2020Banking futures on $100 super-premium grams hasn’t worked out well for Aurora or other publicly traded...
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Joint Opinions
Bloomberg Is the Worst Candidate in the Race on Marijuana
February 21, 2020Listen to @Fatjew: The former New York City mayor has an abysmal record on cannabis and...
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Legal
L.A. County Voids 66,000 Marijuana Convictions
February 20, 2020Expungements take place three years into legalization and show L.A.’s district attorney may be eyeing a...
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Politics
With Brexit Done, Why Won’t Boris Johnson Fix British Medical Cannabis?
February 12, 2020The Conservative prime minister’s party is still reserving medical cannabis access to only the richest of...
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Hemp
Kanye West Is Still Waiting on Donald Trump to Grow Hemp
February 6, 2020Wyoming, where Kanye West owns thousands of acres, is where the musician said he’d start cultivating...
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Culture
Is the Data You Give to Cannabis Dispensaries Safe?
February 3, 2020Personal data from 30,000 cannabis customers leaked from an Amazon Web Services bucket used by a...
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Politics
Austin Votes to Decriminalize Cannabis
February 1, 2020Vote to effectively decriminalize cannabis in Texas’s most progressive city is ignored by police, who won’t...
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Economics
Everyone Still Wants In on Cannabis Stocks
January 26, 2020Launches of two indices signals mainstream interest in publicly traded firms, just as their valuations hit...
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Politics
The Cannabis Lawyer at the Center of Giuliani Trump Ukraine Scandal
January 23, 2020Lawyer of indicted businessman Lev Parnas is James Bondy, a cannabis industry veteran.
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Culture
America’s Airline Traffic Is Now Full of Weed
January 19, 2020Chicago O’Hare Airport’s recent installation of cannabis “amnesty boxes” reveals the truth about American airline traffic...