In sports, the super team is usually disliked by the masses. We want our best athletes to put a team of role players on their backs, and we’ll poop on any collection of superstars who’d rather win faster and easier by joining forces. If we felt that way about cannabis breeding, we’d never have Durban…

All photos by Pat Blashill, courtesy of Bazillion Points In 1978, the Sex Pistols played a legendarily apocalyptic gig in the great state of Texas. From the ash-heaps they left behind, up sprung a fearless, ferocious, hallucinogen-fueled punk scene that produced much of the most adventurous music — and characters — of the ensuing decade.…

There’s a reason that Texas’s state motto is “Friendship.” In a move that effectively extends an olive (or a weed?) branch from the Lone Star State’s government to its people, Texas’s crime labs will no longer test cannabis seized for mere low-level possession cases. Essentially, the state is letting anyone caught with weed (or hemp)…

Image via With the advent of dabbing, the cannabis lexicon has grown tremendously. For starters, there’s the act of dabbing itself. As a reminder, “dabbing” essentially means smoking vapors generated by heating cannabis concentrates. The act of dabbing has introduced consumers to things like torches, rigs (devices used to heat concentrates), and nails (what you…

A Massachusetts community college is now accepting applications for CultivatED, a new “jail-to-jobs” pilot program that will help former cannabis convicts gain employment in the legal weed industry. The CultivatED program will offer scholarships, workforce training, job placement, and pro-bono legal services to individuals who have been disproportionately affected by the War on Drugs. This…

So far, Massachusetts’ foray into legal adult-use sales has been a solid success, but like other adult-use states and countries, the legal weed industry still faces strong competition from the black market. While other states rely on law enforcement to eradicate illicit weed growers and sellers, Massachusetts officials are trying to brainstorm a more effective…

Medical cannabis dispensaries and recreational retail pot shops have been targets for robberies since the first ones opened in the US. But now thieves are breaking into dispensary dumpsters in search of easy weed, and they’re turning up empty-handed.  On Wednesday, several dispensary owners in Tulsa, Oklahoma reported that dumpster divers were trying to crack…

It’s been six years since Colorado’s Mile High City flipped the switch on legalization and welcomed adult-use cannabis sales, and despite frequent fears, Denver’s teenage population still hasn’t gone to pot. According to concurrent reports from The Denver Post and Westword, a newly published survey from the Denver Department of Excise and Licensing dropped on…