An important development occurred last month without much attention: Washington state's Liquor and Cannabis Board awarded Verda Bio, a Seattle-based pharmaceutical company, with the state's first ever research license.
While we can bicker about the size and color of our respective Red or Blue "waves" after November's midterm elections, there is one political movement that has been consistently gaining traction since 2012: the Green Wave.
One of the benefits of writing about cannabis has been access to products that I may have never even considered trying. I never was a big fan of edibles, but finding the right dosage of an Uncle Roaner's taffy edible has made decompressing at home a literal and figurative treat.
Seeing as major beverage companies like Coca-Cola are preparing to get into the cannabis market, what better time to start looking for creative ways for pot enthusiasts to imbibe rather than simply toke?
As Canada's legalization remains in its honeymoon phase, the cannabis marketplace is apparently coming into focus enough for investors to begin accurately gauging the potential of the up-and-coming industry.
Tucked near the furnace in a small room in his basement, Bill Hunton handcrafts hundreds of clay pipes each year at a small work table, forming clay tubes around dowels and stamping geometric patterns and artistic animals into each one.
As with most consumer industries, the recreational cannabis world has often been dictated by large swaths of male demographics. Males in the 20-to-40 age range are often the most heavily targeted in ads, and weed sales are no different.
