Across New York City, brazen pot dealers hock everything from pre-rolls to gummies on folding tables in parks, off gaudy trucks on major streets, and in storefronts painted purple, green, and gray. These illicit vendors have impressed upon a confused public that they’re operating above board by taking advantage of …
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Colorado and Washington legalized adult-use cannabis a decade ago, marking an opportunity to re-examine the intentions of this burgeoning market. Human-rights-focused entrepreneurs are asking themselves myriad questions for the upcoming decade: While states increasingly legalized medical and/or adult-use cannabis, have social equity goals kept pace? Has market competition distanced us …
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David Bunevacz, a former decathlete and competitor for the Philippines national team in the Southeast Asian Games, has pleaded guilty to two charges related to a scheme to defraud cannabis-industry investors. Bunevacz was arrested in April, accused of setting up fake cannabis vaping businesses and deceiving investors into giving him …
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As she sits cross legged on a blush throw rug in her Brooklyn apartment, Victoria ‘Vic’ Styles recounts the first time she ever felt connected to true creativity. The then-24-year-old had just moved to Los Angeles from Alabama after dropping out of university, mere months before graduation, with dreams of …
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When your business operates in a niche that can sometimes experience controversy or deals with controversial subjects, such as cannabis or art, you’re bound to come across a few naysayers along the way. While you can’t prevent this situation from happening, you can control the way you respond. In a …
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The dust is settling on the 2020 election, and all eyes are understandably focused on the presidential result — which at last check had President-Elect Joe Biden beating Donald Trump by more than 5 million votes and on track to record a 306-232 victory in the electoral college. But some …
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Six weeks ago, an 18-year-old male patient showed up to NYU Winthrop Hospital in Long Island complaining about chest pain, nausea, fever, and shortness of breath. Initially, doctors thought he had pneumonia, due to his X-rays showing “haziness” in the lungs. Within 48 hours, says Melodi Pirzada, chief of pediatric …
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A majority of the United States has legalized cannabis in some way, and it’s very exciting, I get it. Fewer people are being arrested, more people are getting off opioids, and accurately dosed pot chocolates might be the best thing to happen to weekends since the invention of television. But …
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Nestled among thick Redwood trees nearly 300 miles north of San Francisco is one of the most prolific cannabis producing regions in the United States: Humboldt County. Long known for its cultivation of the plant, Humboldt is one-third of the famed “Emerald Triangle” of Northern California (Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity …
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