Posts by Shelby Pierce

19 Nov

Featured, Marijuana News

FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE SHOWS VALUE OF WEED CONTROL

• November 19, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

If you want customers to place their trust in you, you have to know what you’re talking about. For Scott Brockelsby, a district manager...

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19 Nov

Featured, Marijuana News

Bennett: Expect bill on recreational pot ‘fairly early on in the next session’

• November 19, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Tom's Mailbag publishes at 2 p.m. Friday. There's time to submit questions. "I know Gov.-elect (J.B.) Pritzker has said that he hope...

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19 Nov

Cannabis, Featured

Weed and Pregnancy: How Cannabis Laws Are Hurting Mothers

• November 19, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Shakira Kennedy was 27 years old and living in Brooklyn when she found out she was going to have twins. While many women experience mor...

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19 Nov

Featured, Weed

Can Weed Get Old? The Science Behind Your Dankness’s Diminishing Returns

• November 19, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

If you discover a present from your past self in the form of some green goddess (we’re not talking salad dressing), should you light up...

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19 Nov

Featured, International News

Massachusetts’s first recreational marijuana sales will begin Tuesday

• November 19, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Better get in line. More than two years after Massachusetts voted to legalize marijuana for all adults over the age of 21, the state...

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19 Nov

Cannabis, Featured

W. MI communities saying ‘no’ to legal weed sales

• November 19, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Election officials say recreational marijuana should become legal by Dec. 6 after the votes are certified ...

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19 Nov

Featured, Law and Politics

Marijuana in Michigan: Doctors must be front line against dangers of pot

• November 19, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Michigan voters have spoken, and Proposal 1 has passed. Recreational marijuana use will soon be legal in the state of Michigan. As a p...

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19 Nov

Featured, Marijuana News

Tech is coming for the weed industry

• November 19, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Now that cannabis is big business, entrepreneurs are eager to bring tech to the weed industry, which means that cannabis is on the bloc...

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17 Nov

Featured, People

WEED AND LUXURY IN LAS VEGAS

• November 17, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

At the very end of my tour of the world’s largest cannabis dispensary, CEO Bob Groesbeck takes me outside to see the lotuses. Sticking ...

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17 Nov

Featured, Marijuana Growing

Can artisanal weed compete with ‘Big Marijuana’?

• November 17, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

You’ve heard of Big Pharma and Big Tobacco. How about Big Marijuana? The drug’s growing legalization is raising concerns among small...

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