Cannabis

Now They Run a Thriving Cannabis Brand  Inside the creative minds behind Houseplant, a weed-focused lifestyle brand aiming to class-up cannabis. I wrote this profile of Michael Mohr , Seth Rogen's accomplished business partner and friend, for Inc.'s package on Celebrity Counterparts.    In 2018, the year  Canada legalized recreational weed , the cannabis company known as Houseplant joined forces with the Ontario-based corporation Canopy Growth and went on to scoop up more th

I wrote this for Conde Nast Traveler back in April.  This is part of a collection of stories on the intersection of weed and travel,...

Two California women—Eleanor Kuntz and Kerin Law—have created the world's first archive of preserved cannabis specimens.  I wrote about...

The American cannabis boom goes far beyond the vast ranks of stoners who can finally roll their joints legally. Hannah Wallace looks at...

Back in July, I reported on the Phylos Bioscience saga for Wired .  When Mowgli Holmes and his childhood friend Nishan Karassik founded...

It seems to me that many of the most creative cannabis ventures in my home town of Portland are run by women. I was pleased, then, to be...

I wrote an insider's guide to Denver's start-up scene for the March/April issue of Inc.   See here for the online version .  Many are...

The guy from K9 and Red Heat now sells the strain smoked on Saturday Night Live back in the 1970s in Portland. The first time Jim Belushi smoked cannabis, he was a teenager in Wheaton, Illinois. “It must’ve been really good pot because I don’t remember,” he says. He does remember being busted twice for marijuana by Wheaton cops. “One time, it was marijuana. One time it was what we called Indiana ragweed. It wasn’t even weed. It was  weeds!” What a difference 45 years makes. B

Turns out, there's lots of money to be made by servicing the companies that are growing and selling legal weed.  I wrote this piece for...

Now that cannabis is legal recreationally in Oregon, I thought I'd give it a try for my occasional insomnia. Here's what happened, in the December issue of Vogue.  Along the way, I dig into the science and find out how terpenes influence your high (more than indica vs. sativa), which conditions cannabis actually helps, and why it can cause anxiety, paranoia, and even hallucinations in some people but not others.  You can download the article here or read the uncut version, be

If you’ve wandered into a cannabis dispensary any time since last October, when the advent of recreational sales made those visits possible, you’ve marveled at a galaxy of goodies: salted caramel chews made with organic cannabis oil, small-batch GMO-free ice cream from local milk, rosemary-and-cumin-spiced nuts, even marionberry coffee cake.  Sour Bhotz gummies, Drip ice-cream, and Laurie & MaryJane's nut mix.  But unless a doctor has issued you a medical marijuana card, you

{This story was published on Civil Eats on July 27th.} Sofresh Farms , in Canby, Oregon, is not what I expect. When I finally find it, on...