JUST STEPS FROM THE STRIP, Oasis Medical Cannabis in Las Vegas is a sleek wink to a downtown art gallery. Also offering yoga, meditation, and wellness classes, the business has emerged as the imaginative gemstone of Las Vegas dispensaries. In one of cannabis’s hottest retail markets, Las Vegas’s dispensaries are innovative, design-rich, and offer reciprocity (i,e, accept medical marijuana recommendations from out-of-state doctors)....

Named best cannabis soda of 2015 by Edibles List, Sprig is gaining attention from the cannabis industry. Sprig’s mission is to deliver a consistent beverage that tastes good and will not overpower patients. Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Michael Lewis said, “We made our product so people didn’t have to choke it down to get their milligrams in. We wanted...

The Los Angeles cannabis community is in chaos and, if the powers that be have their way, it’s about to get a whole lot worse. Under proposed legislation—legislation that flies in the face of both state law and widespread industry standards like those employed in Oakland—at least 95 percent of the medical cannabis businesses that currently comply with state...

An increase in supply due to legalization seems to decrease prices for marijuana. Marijuana has existed mostly on the black market for the past century. This has contributed to higher prices, as growers and dealers have to risk breaking the law to distribute. Additionally, direct competition is reduced without publicly known pricing. There is good news for those who are hoping...

Imagine what your friendly neighborhood Republicans would say if they knew that government seizure of private property occurred without due process. They would be outraged. They would call talk-radio shows, light up social media, and make comparisons to storm troopers in brown shirts and black boots. Yet, conservatives across California and the nation have been largely silent when civil asset seizures...

Nancy Whiteman, Co-owner of Wana Brands on the good news and bad news for the edibles marketplace. The edible market has matured considerably over the past six years. When we first founded the company, many edibles in the marketplace could be politely described as looking “homemade.” The packaging, the dosing, and the attention to actual taste were all quite amateurish....

The star-making, brand-building, storytelling team at PROHBTD are creating and curating the past, present, and future brands of the cannabis industry. LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE having to do with cannabis, there is no shortage of people who would be the Poet of Pot, the Storyteller of Sativa, the Minstrel of Marijuana, and why not? As cannabis continues to fulfill its progressive...

When choosing to cultivate, there are so many things to take into consideration. For me, I look at cannabis as medicine. It is serving me either physically, psychologically, spiritually, or “recreationally.” Recreational use just helps me to relax and ease up, so every time I partake it is medical in one way or another. I feel Cannabis, as a photosynthesizing plant,...

With so many new options to consume cannabis, Dank Tank is leading the way with their clean quality oils. As the appeal of cannabis increases, so does the number of consumable forms. Lighting up a joint may have been the norm for decades, but as Dank Tank’s website states, “technology has advanced to the point where a user of cannabis...

SACRAMENTO – The California Cannabis Industry Association’s first annual policy conference, held March 29 at the Sacramento Sheraton Grand Hotel on J Street, was a sold out affair that offered the well-dressed and well-behaved crowd an efficiently run program that provided valuable information about the state of industry politics, insight into the regulatory progress being made by the state,...