pot

The business of selling legal weed is big and getting bigger. North Americans spent $6.7 billion on legal cannabis last year, and some analysts think that with California set to open recreational dispensaries on Jan. 1 and Massachusetts and Canada soon to follow, the market could expand to more...

California adults not content to ring in the New Year with the traditional fizz of champagne can look forward to celebrating with the buzz of marijuana, purchased for the first time from state-licensed retailers of recreational pot. Dozens of newly authorized marijuana stores are due to open...

It's not the promise of prompt delivery that has residents of Washington, D.C., spending fifty bucks for nondescript glass jars, nor is it the small jars themselves, which resemble something found on the bottom shelf of a Dollar Tree. It is the unmentioned "gift" which a local online upstart...

When Elias Zaldivar was an 18-year-old college freshman and decided he was in the market for marijuana, he knew just how to get it, and it didn't involve canvassing the corridors of his campus in search of that stoned-out dude who sold pot from his dorm room. Instead, he went straight to a...

The sauvignon blanc boasts brassy, citrus notes, but with one whiff, it's apparent this is no normal Sonoma County wine. It's infused with THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana that provides the high. Move over, pot brownies. The world's largest legal recreational marijuana market...

Cannabis entrepreneurs are working to find a place in the Massachusetts market, sometimes treading on legally dubious ground. From a meet-up website that connects pot smokers with home growers to a startup that delivers $55 bottles of fruit juice with a "free gift" of marijuana, some are...

Peter Bernard's Yuletide plans include dressing up in a tuxedo emblazoned with marijuana leaves, donning a green Santa hat and doling out cookie bars made with marijuana to his friends from a big pillowcase. "That's me exercising my right to give marijuana this Christmas," said Bernard, a...

A pair of central Massachusetts men hailed by High Times magazine as some of "New England's Patriot Pot Growers" were arrested for their large-scale home grow operations and are facing federal drug charges. The homes of Peter Molle, a 35-year-old from Holland, and Eric Vallee, a 38-year-old...

The city won't begin accepting applications to sell legal recreational pot until Jan. 3, officials say. California kicks off recreational sales on New Year's Day, becoming the largest state in the nation with legal marijuana. But Los Angeles officials announced Friday that dispensaries in...

California is on the brink of legalizing the sale of recreational pot, with the first round of state licenses for marijuana businesses kicking into effect in January. But Los Angeles pot shops won't be able to immediately start selling marijuana for recreational use on New Year's Day, city...

Peter Bernard's Yuletide plans include dressing up in a tuxedo emblazoned with marijuana leaves, donning a green Santa hat and doling out cookie bars made with marijuana to his friends from a big pillowcase. "That's me exercising my right to give marijuana this Christmas," said Bernard, a...

Grow Space: 2.5ft x 2.5ft Light: 400w Vipaspectra Medium: 20% perlite - 40% coco coir - 20% compost - 20% regular soil Pot size: 3gal Nutrients: 50% regular grow (seriously, don't be a hero with the nutes) Problems: Humidity (tranistioning seasons) & Gnats (take them serious in the seedling...

I would love to hear of your aromatic experience when using pot. What aromas are present to tell you of its quality? What do you look for? Similar to wine, do you prepare your palate by smelling it? What other rituals are there to preparing to enjoy and appreciating pot? We are experts in...

At the two malls in town you can buy key chains and Christmas ornaments shaped like marijuana leaves. Along a downtown shopping corridor, paintings of cannabis plants grace storefront windows. Even Kmart stocks its shelves with T-shirts and mugs decorated with the signature green leaf and...

California's legal marijuana market is finally, fitfully, taking shape. The state on Thursday issued the first batch of business licenses to sell and transport recreational-use pot, just 18 days before legal sales will begin on Jan. 1, 2018. The 20 temporary licenses – some of which were...

Los Angeles lawmakers backed a host of new regulations for the marijuana industry last week, paving the way for the hotly anticipated business of recreational pot. The unanimous vote Wednesday was a landmark step for the biggest city in California as the state prepares to start issuing...

Legislation giving Ontario's government a monopoly on recreational marijuana sales in the province passed at Queen's Park on Tuesday. MPPs passed the Cannabis Act 63 to 27, with support from the Liberals and the NDP, while the PC party voted no. The bill creates a provincial agency that...

Living in Portland in 2017 you could be forgiven for supposing marijuana has an assured future as a legal good. Dispensaries seem almost as ubiquitous as coffee shops. Vending exquisitely modulated highs they appear as an adjunct to the city's epicurean scene. And no one's blowing smoke about...

New Jersey did quite well last week in oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in its challenge to a 1992 federal law that bans sports betting. This was in keeping with our state's long and proud tradition when it comes to fighting federal laws that impinge on the rights of the...

On the eve of California's big new experiment with legal cannabis sales, cities and counties are becoming a kaleidoscopic landscape as they race to enact laws by the start of the new year that reflect their hopes and fears. Will there be a flood of tax revenue from cannabis to fix potholes...