How Can We Destigmatize Cannabis?

I’ve gone to so many meetings with high-powered executives who say, usually near the end of the meeting, that they’ve never actually tried cannabis. Imagine that in other industries: If Steve Jobs never used a Mac. If Elon Musk never once tried driving a Tesla…

Retrospective Part Two: Rolling the Dice at MJBizCon

I just arrived in Las Vegas for MJBizCon 2018. It’s an event that touts itself as the marijuana industry’s biggest trade show (not sure how you measure that when the world seems awash in marijuana conferences and expos). Getting ready, I keep thinking about my experiences at the first MJBizCon in November 2014, when the event was much smaller, but the stakes for me were much, much higher…

Consuming the Green on St. Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick’s Day is a big deal in my town. Denver hosts the biggest Irish pride parade west of the Mississippi, with horses, stagecoaches, and 10,000 marchers entertaining 200,000 spectators along Blake Street. This year the Riverdance World Tour is playing sold-out shows at the Buell Theatre. Forget about finding a table at Scruffy Murphy’s, the Irish pub on Larimer; you’ll be lucky to make it through the front door...

Trump Transition & Legalization: Your Talking Points

This past election season promted the coining of a new phrase; post-truth politics. Our current political culture is framed largely by appeals to emotion, disconnected from the details of policy and it's relative real-world impact. 

Considering this landscape, it's important to arm yourself with facts that will be helpful in conversations within our community this month, and in our homes this holiday season...

Cannabis, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

I’ve been thinking about liberty and the pursuit of happiness lately.  

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” It’s our birthright as Americans, written into the Declaration of Independence. Over the past several decades, we have increasingly pursued happiness in prescription pill bottles. With more than 70 percent of adults taking at least one prescription drug, Americans are now the most medicated people on earth. Thirteen percent of all Americans, including one in four adult women, now take some form of antidepressant or anti-anxiety drug.