Christopher Jones
Decoding the New and Veteran Cannabis Consumer to Increase Sales
For an industry that was born in backwoods and back rooms across the United States, it didn’t take long for cannabis to become a...
Akerna CEO Jessica Billingsley: the New Face of Big Data
Jessica Billingsley has charted an impressive career trajectory over the past ten years. First, as co-founder and chief executive officer, she steered cannabis compliance...
Bigger, Faster, Smarter: The Cannabis AgTech Revolution
Of all segments in the cannabis industry, cultivation may be the most competitive and complicated. There’s little room for error, and industrial-scale operations are...
Lowell Herb Co. CEO David Elias Builds a Bull Market Out West
For all the talk about vertically-integrated companies with deep pockets moving in to dominate the cannabis industry, leave it to a lean-and-mean upstart with...
Cannabis Takes the Capitol by Storm (Special Feature)
When cannabis was de facto outlawed in the United States in 1937 with the Marihuana Tax Act, reefer madness and racism were the primary...
Overcoming Stigma: Sun-Grown Farmers Are Spreading Their Wings
Ever visit a sushi restaurant and wonder whether the “red snapper” on the menu might be tilapia grown on a fish farm in parts...
SXSWeed: Cannabis Track Tackles Big Issues
AUSTIN, Texas – For a festival that has its origins in local bands playing gigs at small clubs around town, South by Southwest (SXSW)...
Boveda Is Perfecting Humidity, One Packet at a Time
Before the legal cannabis industry set up shop, buying weed was a hit-or-miss experience: One never could be sure about a strain’s identity, much...
The Cannabis Plant: an Unfolding Story in Genetics
For a plant humans have grown and transported around the world for thousands of years—utilizing its precious seeds, flowers, resin, and fibers in myriad...
Putting on the Glitz: Cannabis Retail Adds Bling and Smarts to the Menu
When the Jardin cannabis dispensary opened in Las Vegas in 2016, discerning customers might have noticed something different about the weed shopping experience. Maybe...
