This week, Leland Rucker discusses what he sees as the hypocrisy between the acceptance of using gummy bears for children’s medicine and the outcry against gummy bears with THC for adult use. As Sports Authority goes out of business, the […]
Challenges in a Growing Marijuana Industry
“Standards need to be implemented. I think the yard stick has to be the same.” Brooke Wise, is the CEO of The Growing Kitchen, a medical and retail dispensary and grow facility in Boulder. In 2015, The Growing Kitchen was recognized […]
Industrial Hemp and Cannabidiol: Benefits and Barriers of Cannabis Research
“The current uses of CBD (cannabidiol) are in a variety of medical problems and issues.” Researchers in public universities in the US have long complained about the barriers facing them when it comes to researching the possible uses of the […]
Sensi: Marijuana Tax Benefits and Push Back
This week Leland Rucker takes a look at how cannabis tax money is being used to offer scholarships in Pueblo County and raise wages in other southern Colorado counties. Even as the taxes are benefiting these communities, there are groups […]
40 Years Stoned: A journalist’s romance
Tom Huth’s latest book is Forty Years Stoned, which chronicles his life long relationship and self described love affair with marijuana, but it also chronicles the last 20 years caring for his wife after her Parkinson’s diagnosis. Huth is a […]
Sensi: Marijuana news – using RICO laws against legal pot businesses
Several out of state organizations have tried to target Colorado’s legalization of recreational marijuana, citing violations of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) The plaintiff in several suits is anti-drug Safe Streets Alliance, which states on its […]
Weedgalized: True Tales From The High Country
“Legalizing pot in Colorado changed everything. Cultures were transformed, entrepreneurs descended on the state, and people couldn’t stop talking about it.” As a bartender in the heart of Colorado Ski Country, Johnny Welsh started to see major changes after marijuana […]
Sensi: Marijuana news – pot use and athletes
This week, sensi.com editor Leland Rucker takes a look at professional and college athletes changing attitudes to marijuana use. Several high profile NFL players are calling on the league to allow medical marijuana to be used for pain management, as […]