The Waldos: The California Teens Who Accidentally Invented 420 What Is the Real Origin of 420? The origin of 420 is one of pop culture’s best-kept secrets. 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. Related: Is It A Smart Idea to Use Marijuana In The Mountains? Every […] Brains Steven Agar | April 20, 2026 0 Comments
Is Marijuana Skiing Safety a Myth? What Search and Rescue Teams Want You to Know When Canada legalized marijuana in October 2018, pushback came from an unexpected place–search and rescue. Marijuana skiing safety became a genuine concern for mountain rescue teams, and it’s easy to see why. 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 […] Mike Lavery | April 20, 2024 3 Comments
A Look at Cannabis Consumption at American Ski Areas When visiting ski resorts in places like California and Colorado, the obvious, skunky aroma of cannabis can be smelled nearly anywhere around the mountain, and just about anytime (okay, maybe a slight exaggeration). From parking lots and lift-lines on the west coast, to the middle of nowhere while cruising through the glades in Vermont or Michigan, cannabis around the United […] Brains John Cunningham | August 7, 2023 3 Comments
Buy Weed and Ski Free at This Michigan Resort Mount Bohemia and Lume Cannabis Company are rolling out some big news. Way up in the Keweenaw (Kee-wuh-naw) Peninsula of Michigan sits Mount Bohemia, a small ski area with a big personality. The ski area has plenty of steep, challenging terrain and no beginner runs. It now has an exciting offer to announce. If you show a receipt with purchases totaling […] Industry News Luke Guilford | January 27, 2023 1 Comment
Recreational Marijuana Sales Have Already Surpassed $5 Million in First Week in New Mexico If you’re driving through Taos, NM any time soon, expect to see some new stores opening up with some… let’s call them relaxing products. Recreational marijuana sales were recently legalized in New Mexico, and businesses were given the OK by state officials to sell and distribute their products starting last week. On Friday, April 1st, New Mexico officially allowed […] Haleigh Hafner | April 15, 2022 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
Analyzing the Effects of Legal Cannabis in Colorado On November 6, 2012, Colorado citizens voted to legalize recreational marijuana. Since the first recreational dispensaries began opening in 2014, more than $10,940,865,212 worth of cannabis sales have been reported. Colorado was one of the first states to legalize medical and recreational marijuana and has served as an effective template for states that want to follow suit. Overall, public opinion […] Brains Jesse | July 26, 2021 0 Comments
Soaring Unemployment Rates Among Drug-Sniffing Police Dogs The legalization of marijuana has been a trending topic in the United States for decades now. 18 states have legalized marijuana since 2012 and, according to the PEW Research Center, 90% of Americans support the legalization of Marijuana. As the legislation surrounding cannabis relaxes, and the plant becomes more socially acceptable throughout society, there is a decreasing demand for weed-sniffing […] Brains Jesse | July 14, 2021 1 Comment
How Mushrooms Can Eliminate Plastic Waste, Save the Bees, and Benefit Humanity Nature is unfathomably mysterious. The Earth is a living organism, and there’s so much we still don’t even know about it. Poetically, however, it may die that way, too. That is unless we put differences aside and assume the courage to actually do something about it. I know you’ve heard something along these lines before, and that last sentence probably […] Brains Martin Kuprianowicz | April 15, 2021 1 Comment
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
California Officials Destroy 11 Fields Illegally Growing Marijuana Worth $1-Billion The Kern County Sheriff’s Office received information about several hemp cultivation sites that were actively cultivating marijuana. The Kern County Sheriff’s Office, with the assistance of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), initiated a joint investigation. Related: Colorado Snowstorm Destroys Millions of Dollars of Marijuana Plants, Affecting the State’s Legal Supply On […] SnowBrains | November 4, 2019 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
Corona Owner Invests $4-Billion in Marijuana Company Constellation Brands Inc., which for seven decades has made its money off beer, wine and whiskey, sees its future in a marijuana leaf. The owner of Corona, Kim Crawford Wines, and Ballast Point is to increase its stake in Canadian cannabis company Canopy Growth, investing US$4 billion to acquire a 38% share of the business. The drinks giant said that […] Steven Agar | August 17, 2018 0 Comments
Bargain Bud in California as Dispensaries Need to Offload Inventory before New Standards Apply from 1st July Bargain basement bud is on the menu in California, but you need to act fast to cash in on the cheap weed, reports ABC. Regulations being phased in six months after the state broadly legalized marijuana require that pot sold after this Saturday 30th June meet strict quality standards, so retailers unloading untested inventory are offering blowout prices. Deep discounts on […] SnowBrains | June 27, 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
Marijuana Sales Are Forecasted To Surpass Soda Sales By 2030 According to The Cannabist, marijuana sales are expected to surpass soda sales by the year 2030. In 2017, North American soda sales were $76.4 billion, which was lower than the $78.3 billion that was generated from them in 2016. A recent study that was done by Cowen & Co. forecasted that cannabis sales will reach $75 billion by 2030, which would be […] Industry News SnowBrains | April 6, 2018 0 Comments
Tanner Hall Partners With Black Rock Originals and Releases Full Smoke Kit [iframe id=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/154089730″ align=”center” mode=”normal” autoplay=”yes”] If the video doesn’t speak for itself….The time has come: cannabis and high level athletics are finally realizing the inherent connection. Tanner Hall has been destroying stereotypes for years, and it looks like this is another myth debunked. Tanner has been openly using cannabis for years, loves the Rasta lifestyle, and is constantly rocking out […] Keenan Grady | February 17, 2016 2 Comments
Recreational Marijuana is Now Legal in Oregon Recreational Marijuana is now legal in the state of Oregon as of yesterday. Oregon happens to have great skiing, great skiers, and year round glacier skiing on Mt. Hood. The funny thing is, recreational marijuana has kinda been legal in Oregon for a long time: “In populous parts of the state that have long been tolerant of marijuana, police don’t generally bust people using it in private. Most important, though, is that under the new law it’s still illegal to sell recreational marijuana. When Oregon […] Industry News SnowBrains | July 2, 2015 1 Comment
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