Most scholars believe the Hashashin’s love for their namesake substance is an exaggeration, if not an outright fabrication. When the Italian merchant Marco Polotraveled through the Middle East on his way to China, he was told a story about a group of assassins known as the Hashashin, who lived in a hilltop fortress ruled by…
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Dr. Tod Mikuriya was a critical force in the successful and ground-breaking effort to legalize medical marijuana in California in the 1990s. Now his papers are available to researchers through a newly archived collection at the National Library of Medicine. The Berkeley psychiatrist, who died in 2007, was hailed as the grandfather of the medical…
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If there have been two burning topics in Barcelona this summer, they’re tourism and the future of cannabis clubs. Two issues where the city council plays a key role—both by action, with the crackdown on clubs that began earlier this year, and by omission, through the lack of policies to regulate the city’s ever-growing gentrification,…
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Post-harvest can often feel like a bottleneck. But for JJ Fabian, Director of Business Development and Sales at Eteros, it’s where true innovation begins. “When we started in 2016,” said Fabian, “the cannabis automation space was new, and early machines didn’t seem to match the needs of processors demanding both high quality and high volume…
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There is a particular kind of clarity that comes only from packing everything you own into a small Ford Focus and heading west. It was a move born not of a grand plan, but of a singular, powerful purpose: to find my place and grow in the cannabis industry, an industry that had always felt…
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I still keep, in my phone’s notepad, the list of strains I smoked and the coffeeshops where I scored them—a personal archive of Amsterdam’s green bounty. I made that pilgrimage in April 2015, spending fifteen days on my own with one simple mission: hit as many coffeeshops as I could and, of course, do what…
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As the Founder and CEO of RollPros, Loucks brought his background in medical devices, optics engineering, and VR hardware to cannabis manufacturing, challenging the long-held assumption that pre-roll automation required pre-made cones or would result in inconsistent, low-grade products. The result of that challenge? The Blackbird. RollPros’ flagship system uses proprietary TruRoll technology to replicate…
RollPros’ Kyle Loucks on Scaling Pre-Roll Production – Cannabis & Read More »
“We looked hard for that common ground and just never could find it. We just don’t see that we can get anything off the House floor.” By Alex Nguyen and Kayla Guo, The Texas Tribune The Texas Legislature ended another legislative overtime round without banning or further regulating most THC products after a months-long fight…
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RFK talks psychedelics with CO gov; Poll: 2/3 of voters back legalizing marijuana; NE legalization initiative; DE’s “strong” 1st month cannabis sales Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible……
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Original publication: November 2004. 30 YEARS OF HIGH TIMES Joint Communiqué In the early 1970s, before the advent of High Times, I was living on a horse farm in Maine, supporting my writing habit by smuggling pot, when Rolling Stone assigned me to do a story on Rochdale College in Toronto. Rochdale had been conceived…
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