Opinions & Editorials

Lately, CBD brands have started adding adaptogens—plants and mushrooms with healing properties—into their products. Unfortunately, they rarely attribute these ancient medicines to their historical and cultural context.

Colleges in the South are launching cannabis/hemp research programs and partnering with southern cannabis cultivators to grow legal, medicinal cannabis.

Comments made this week by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki hint that the Biden Administration is continuing in its failure to recognize the need for significant cannabis reforms.

With the firing of multiple White House staffers for cannabis use, the Biden Administration demonstrated that — even with federal cannabis legislation positioned for a big win this year — it will continue to stigmatize cannabis consumers.

Between multiple state legalization wins and the election of a hesitantly pro-reform presidential candidate, the 2020 election solidified a stronger future for the US cannabis industry.

After its inception this year despite delays from the coronavirus, the Washington Social Equity in Cannabis Task Force has opted to center on anti-Black racism in the cannabis industry.

The drug war is a long-documented instrument of institutional racism — but it’s also symptomatic of a much larger system that has worked to maintain the status quo for generations. This editorial explores the lessons learned and correlations to our future as we experience the crumbling of cannabis prohibition.

Following a spate of EVALI cases in 2019, the vaping-related lung disease has received little attention in the months since COVID-19. One year later, we’re left wondering: what happened, how did it happen, and what could have been done differently?

With the legalization and regulation of cannabis, numerous states have attempted to address the lasting harms of the drug war by creating social equity grants for entrepreneurs from impacted communities. In Massachusetts, a bill is being considered that would offer loans instead.

Throughout the last month, the entire world has been focused on the Black Lives Matter movement; simultaneously, the cannabis industry has remained largely silent on an influencer’s use of the N-word and photos of a dispensary owner in full blackface.

Michael Thompson was arrested for selling cannabis in 1994; he was given a de-facto life sentence in prison and now COVID-19 is poised to upgrade that to a death sentence unless Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer does the right thing.

COVID-19 is spreading through the U.S. prison system like wildfire and people who remain locked up on cannabis and nonviolent drug charges are being forced to face their mortality.

A recent marketing stunt from the California Milk Advisory Board aims to ride the coattails of cannabis business in a tone-deaf attempt to bolster their struggling industry.

The vaping-related pulmonary illness crisis sweeping the nation is a perfect example of how cannabis prohibition directly hurts Americans, and why legalization and regulation is the safest way forward.

Cannabis mergers and acquisitions have made for some big stories this year — here’s an in-depth look at the strategies behind these moves, and an explanation of how you might use M&A to grow your own cannabis enterprise.

It’s one thing to plant some seeds and grow some hemp — but how do you take that very basic business model and scale for a successful future? Check out the following guide for tips on finding success in this new and exciting industry.

Quebec is going one step further than “Just Say No” and has embraced “Just Say Huh?” with its latest awareness campaign, which features some of the weirdest cannabis propaganda messaging, ever.