Is It A Smart Idea to Use Marijuana In The Mountains? When Canada legalized marijuana in October 2018, pushback came from an unexpected place––search and rescue. Not long ago, marijuana was still considered a bad drug mostly used by hippies and stoners. These days it’s becoming legal, socially accepted, and even used for its medicinal purposes. Legal or illegal, the odors wafting off the chairlift don’t lie – people like to smoke […] Mike Lavery | April 20, 2024 3 Comments
420: The Legend Behind the Californian High-Schoolers and How 420 Became Globally Recognized Amongst Stoners Each year on this day, 4/20, 20 April, marijuana enthusiasts all around the world, from Amsterdam to London to California, congregate to celebrate cannabis culture, whether it’s legal or not. Every year, more than a thousand people gather in London’s Hyde Park to mark 4/20, smoking joints together at the designated time while calling for cannabis to be legalized, and tens […] Steven Agar | April 20, 2024 0 Comments
Recreational Marijuana Has Arrived in Taos, NM This is no April Fool’s joke—recreational cannabis will be available for purchase at dispensaries in New Mexico on Friday, April 1st. Locals in Taos are preparing for the inception of a brand new, very lucrative industry. There are currently multiple cannabis retailers filing for licenses to sell recreational pot in the state of New Mexico. Although many of these licenses […] Haleigh Hafner | March 31, 2022 2 Comments
Colorado’s Marijuana Sales Surpass $10-Billion In 2012, Colorado passed Amendment 64, making recreational marijuana legal for adults 21 years of age or older. Amendment 64 allowed adults to possess up to an ounce of marijuana, and also required the state to set up a regulatory structure for the retail marijuana industry. Since marijuana first started being sold recreationally in 2014, according to the Colorado Department […] Miles Wong | February 12, 2021 0 Comments
Mike Tyson Admits He Smokes 10-TONS of Marijuana Costing $40,000 Every Month Boxing legend Mike Tyson admitted on his Hotboxin’ podcast that he smokes around ten TONS of weed every month, at a cost of $40,000. “What do we smoke a month? Is it $40,000 a month? It’s $40, yeah, $40,000 a month,” said Tyson. “We smoke 10 tons of weed at the ranch a month,” added his co-host former NFL player […] SnowBrains | August 15, 2019 1 Comment
Colorado Just Exceeded $1-Billion Tax Revenue Since Marijuana Was Legalized The state of Colorado has now generated in excess of $1-billion in total state revenue from the legal marijuana industry. The state’s legal pot sales revenue doubled from the $500 million mark to $1 billion took less than two years. Achieving that first $500 million took almost three and a half years. Related: Colorado’s Marijuana Industry Continues to Grow | […] SnowBrains | June 13, 2019 0 Comments
Canada Now World’s Largest Legal Marijuana Marketplace Today, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, after 95-years of prohibition, Canada is set to become only the second country in the world and the first G7 country and major economy to legalize marijuana for all uses. Uruguay was the first country. Last night, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, hundreds of customers had lined up around the block at a private store by the […] Steven Agar | October 17, 2018 0 Comments
Record Marijuana Sales in March for Nevada | Sales are Surpassing Projections Every Month Nevada marijuana sales continue to outpace projections, reaching the highest monthly total in March since recreational sales became legal last July, reports the Tahoe Daily Tribune. The Nevada Department of Taxation said Wednesday taxable sales of adult-use marijuana topped $41 million in March, a 16 percent increase from February and 14.5 percent more than the previous monthly record of $35.8 […] Steven Agar | May 24, 2018 0 Comments
Colorado Marijuana Sales hit new High | $1.5 billion in 2017 Colorado marijuana shops raked in a record $1.51 billion sales of medical and recreational cannabis, edibles and concentrate products during 2017, according to Colorado Department of Revenue data released Friday. Adult-use sales topped $1.09 billion, with the remaining $416.52 million coming from medical marijuana. Colorado collected upward of $247 million in taxes and fees revenue from pot sales, according to […] Steven Agar | February 13, 2018 1 Comment
Marijuana Sales Exceeded Liquor Sales in Aspen, CO Last Year Legal-pot purveyors generated $11.3 million in revenue last year compared with $10.5 million for liquor stores, marking the first time marijuana sales outpaced booze for the year in Aspen, reports The Aspen Times. Cannabis revenue last year also marked a 16 percent increase over 2016, which produced $9.7 million in sales. Of Aspen’s 12 retail sectors, the marijuana industry also […] Steven Agar | February 9, 2018 1 Comment
Happy 420: “Tanner Hall and the Athlete’s Case for Cannabis” – by The New Yorker Is this for real? Our beloved stoner athlete Tanner Hall has been making unprecedented moves in the action sport community. He is one of the first high level athletes to endorse pot as helpful substance to his training and his success. Tanner said “[I] used it when I competed at the X Games,” he mentioned, “It helps with the stress, with […] Keenan Grady | April 19, 2016 12 Comments
Telluride, CO = Pot Paradise? Telluride, Colorado is a paradise by any standard. Unreal skiing, great ice climbing, stunning scenery, good people, clean air, and legal marijuana. Starting this month, you’ll be able to buy marijuana for recreational use in Colorado and Telluride is leading the ski town charge. Telluride (population 2,300) has 4 marijuana dispensaries with all of them downtown. Other ski towns aren’t quite so into it. Some of them banned marijuana […] SnowBrains | January 7, 2014 0 Comments
