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A Medical Marijuana Vending Machine, For When You Just Can't Wait To Get High

BY Ariel Schwartz | 04-27-2012 | 12:58 PM | POT

Interacting with a person at a dispensary can be so time consuming. Now you can buy your medical marijuana (for your glaucoma!) on the street corner. READ MORE›

The Insane Economics Of Not Legalizing Marijuana In One Handy Infographic

BY Morgan Clendaniel | 04-06-2012 | 11:00 AM | MARIJUANA

There’s a lot of green in green. This infographic shows just how much money is falling through the cracks, and how much we’re spending to keep it underground. READ MORE›

Sequencing The Marijuana Genome To Cure Disease, Get You Less High

BY Ariel Schwartz | 08-19-2011 | 12:44 PM | ETHONOMICS

Medicinal Genomics has just finished sequencing the cannabis genome. Not to make some truly righteous bud, but to find the parts of the plant that are medicinally valuable and make them into drugs that don't also get people stoned.READ MORE›

Clean Green Certified Is Like USDA Organic For Marijuana

BY Ariel Schwartz | 07-21-2011 | 4:56 PM | ETHONOMICS

Gone are the days when you had no idea where your pot--we mean, your friend's pot--came from or how it was grown. Now the organically conscious smoker can get the cleanest, greenest weed.READ MORE›

Buzzkill of the Day: U.S. Marijuana Industry Responsible for $5 Billion in Energy Consumption

BY Ariel Schwartz | 04-08-2011 | 3:45 PM | ETHONOMICS

It might be all-natural, but that joint you're smoking has a serious carbon footprint--it's responsible for 1% of all electricity use in the U.S.READ MORE›

Marijuana Business Potential Unearthed in Groundbreaking Study [Infographic]

BY Ted Rose | 03-16-2011 | 10:52 AM | INNOVATION

The first ever study of its kind by See Change Strategy takes a deep dive into medical pot, a growth industry. Here's a free sample of the data. If you want more, though, you'll have to buy it. READ MORE›

The Walmart of Weed May Come Soon to a Town Near You

BY Ariel Schwartz | 02-28-2011 | 7:46 PM | ETHONOMICS

The hydroponics chain weGrow just opened a 10,000-foot outlet store in Sacramento and has plans for other outlets in Arizona, Colorado, New Jersey, and Oregon. Can medical marijuana thrive in big-box stores?READ MORE›

WeedMaps Launches Groupon for Pot, Stoners Cheer

BY Ariel Schwartz | 02-16-2011 | 1:14 PM | ETHONOMICS

WeedMaps, a massive clearinghouse for medical marijuana information, is now offering daily pot deals in your inbox. READ MORE›

Four Loko Is So 2010: Introducing the Marijuana-Spiked Canna Cola

BY Ariel Schwartz | 01-28-2011 | 9:03 PM | ETHONOMICS

California commercial artist Clay Butler would like to offer you a tasty sip of Doc Weed. No? How about Orange Kush? They both come in bottles containing "12 mind blowing ounces."READ MORE›

Sign of the Times: Pot Sold in Eco-Friendly Packaging

BY Suzanne LaBarre | 11-23-2010 | 7:58 AM | ORGANICANN

Pot is going green(er). OrganiCann, a monster dispensary in Santa Rosa, California has developed compostable packaging designed to make your morning bong rip medical cannabis that much more guilt-free. Most weed comes in ... READ MORE›

How WeedMaps Makes More Than $400,000 a Month

BY Ariel Schwartz | 11-10-2010 | 1:27 PM | ETHONOMICS

Medical marijuana can be daunting for the uninitiated, with offerings like Blue Dream, Strawberry Cough, and Green Crack. How are patients supposed to navigate the world of dispensaries? That's where WeedMaps.com found its lucrative niche -- and why it's currently for sale.READ MORE›

What Prop 19? The Future of California's Marijuana Industry

BY Ariel Schwartz | 11-04-2010 | 5:02 PM | ETHONOMICS

Dreams of legalized marijuana in California went up in smoke this week as Proposition 19, the state's legalization measure, failed to pass. What happens now to the state's pot industry?READ MORE›

What Happens to Marijuana Growers if Prop. 19 Passes? [Updated]

BY Ariel Schwartz | 11-01-2010 | 10:27 PM | ETHONOMICS

Proposition 19, California's marijuana legalization proposition, is on the precipice of passing. Do growers have anything to worry about?READ MORE›

Moms for Pot: Marijuana Initiative Gets a Surprising New Ally

BY Ariel Schwartz | 10-20-2010 | 5:30 PM | ETHONOMICS

A majority of Californians now support marijuana legalization -- as does a group of mothers from A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Treatment and Healing), now campaigning for Proposition 19. But should the growers support it too?READ MORE›

Big Labor, Big Beer At War Over Big Pot

BY Ariel Schwartz | 09-22-2010 | 4:46 PM | ETHONOMICS

One of the most entertaining sideshows in the debate over Proposition 19, California's marijuana legalization initiative, has been watching various organizations take sides.READ MORE›

SPARC: The Apple Store of Marijuana Shops

BY Ariel Schwartz | 09-10-2010 | 1:23 PM | ETHONOMICS

Like your local Mac market, SPARC is slick, modern, and offers specialized instruction--in acupressure and self-healing, Ayurvedic cooking, art therapy, and calligraphy.READ MORE›

Meet the Personal Chef of Pot

BY Ariel Schwartz | 08-26-2010 | 3:36 PM | ETHONOMICS

Jonesing for some gourmet tri-tip and a solid buzz? Check out Cannabis Catering, a venture founded by a culinary wizard and chef to the stars.READ MORE›

With Banned Pot Leaf Image, Facebook Pushes U.S. Morals on World

BY Kit Eaton | 08-25-2010 | 5:46 AM | INNOVATION

What marijuana, breast-feeding, and Facebook have--or should have--in common.READ MORE›

Don't Bogart That Name: Medical Marijuana Trademarks

BY Laurel Sutton | 08-04-2010 | 2:47 PM | INNOVATION

With the possible legalization of marijuana in California, will we be inundated with branding, or will Acapulco Gold stay in the public domain?READ MORE›

How Oakland's Walmart-ization of Weed Could Choke Out Small-Time Growers

BY Ariel Schwartz | 07-28-2010 | 2:52 PM | ETHONOMICS

The closer marijuana comes to full legalization status in California, the more likely it is that the plant will be treated like any other crop--that is, as an industrial cash cow that often squeezes out small farmers. And the marijuana industrialization process is, in fact, already beginning. READ MORE›