Your unbiased source for in-depth coverage of cannajobs, cannatax, and cannabiz. We feel heavily consticted state-by-state amendments represent grovelization, not legalization. Sorry, one ounce limits and opt-out provisions don't float our boat. Toppling federal prohibition is the resolution we care about. Keep an eye out for our epic report, Cannajobs 2014.

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DC Flashback

DC Flashback

When you’re a 17-year-old sophomore at American University and it’s the Fall of 1969, you figure a series of antiwar rallies that attract crowds of 500,000 fellow students, “peaceniks,” and “outside agitators” to DC is all just part of college life. How would you know any better?

Is the Grass Really Greener in The Netherlands?

Is the Grass Really Greener in The Netherlands?

As the 767 carrying your faithful correspondent streaks across Greenland’s vast, desolate expanse, I’m wondering if the vibrant, decadent scene that dazzled me and everybody else back in the 70’s is still going strong under the heel of the cannabis-averse Christian Democratic Party.

The Joy of Pot

The Joy of Pot

MMJ causes a lot of collateral damage— the LA City Council’s recent decision to obliterate every last dispensary in Tinseltown is Exhibit A. We called that in the Ball and Chain series. For now, enough is enough. To balance things out, we rhapsodize about the joy of pot.

Ten Reasons Why MMJ Is Cannabis Commerce's Ball And Chain

Ten Reasons Why MMJ Is Cannabis Commerce’s Ball And Chain

“Winning” limited medical marijuana initiatives — as opposed to repealing prohibition — invites legislators into a vicious cycle of creating, editing, and deleting whatever proposition or referendum you voted for after the fact. That insures endless regulatory skirmishes until the end of days.

Cannabis Commerce in the USA

Cannabis Commerce in the USA

How much cannatax could be collected in a legal, regulated society? Lots, like $75 billion. And that’s just the USA’s share, in the the overground poteconomy’s infancy. Harvard’s enigmatic Dr. Jeffrey Miron, oft-quoted pot pontificator, greatly doubts it. Other poteconomists doubt him. Finally, the real lowdown.