No Longer the ‘Devil’s Lettuce’: How the Town of Weed Embraced Weed May 18, 2021 AggregatedNews California 0 Comments For decades, a rural California city winced at the puns. Now it’s cashing in. WEED, Calif. — When they see the signs for Weed, carloads of curious travelers veer off the freeway to stop and gawk. They file into gift… Read More→
Marijuana, Reefer, Weed: How Language Keeps Evolving for the Devil’s Lettuce July 8, 2019 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments Kush. Bud. Herb. Who knows what to call marijuana these days? Born of the need for secrecy, slang has long dominated pot culture. But as entrepreneurs seek to capitalize on new laws legalizing recreational and medical marijuana, they too are… Read More→
Marijuana Industry Gets Blunt: Stop Using The Word ‘Pot’ January 18, 2018 AggregatedNews On the Move 0 Comments He was dressed in a three-piece suit. But Chris Coggan nearly went unnoticed when he dropped by a San Diego city councilor’s office last year to do some lobbying on marijuana laws. “An aide came to reception and asked, ‘Where’s… Read More→
The First White Collar Crime of the Cannabis Industry Just Happened September 23, 2016 AggregatedNews Packaging, Policy & Legal 0 Comments The weed industry is getting to know a time-honored tradition of the American business world: corporate fraud. Federal prosecutors in Colorado last week charged the men behind FusionPharm, a publicly traded hydroponic marijuana farming company, with securities fraud over an… Read More→