The alcohol industry has been wringing its hands as more states legalize recreational marijuana. It’s concerned that customers who a few years ago would have chosen to unwind with a six-pack will instead roll a joint at the end of a long day. And while there’s not conclusive evidence that legal weed is a big threat to…
Speaking as former servers and hotel employees, we Takeout writers completely understand why some Vermont hotel workers were stoked to find an uneaten box of fancy-looking chocolates in a recently vacated room. We’ve been there: Working long shifts, not making a ton of money, grateful for any little snack that comes…
About 70 percent of Colorado marijuana dispensaries suggested weed to aid women’s morning sickness, according to a new article published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology. Researchers used a “mystery caller approach,” meaning a woman would call a dispensary, she was eight weeks pregnant and experiencing morning…
Carpinteria, California is a lovely coastal community, surrounded by mountains, the ocean, and farmland. Once upon a time, this little corner of the world helped fuel the cut flower industry in the U.S. Now, it’s all about the weed, baby, and apparently, it stinks.
Kimberly Stuck would definitely have been welcome at my college’s career day. Not only does she have an interesting job as the marijuana specialist for the Denver Department Of Public Health And Environment, but she’s the first cannabis-focused specialist for a public health authority in the whole country. Her goal…
The beer industry has for years debated whether recreational marijuana cuts into beer sales. When the first states legalized recreational weed—Colorado and Washington, both in 2012—brewers, distributors, and bars wondered whether their customers wouldn’t start to allocate some of their vice budget toward weed instead…
Grab your burlap tote, your floppy hat, and some cash from the ATM, because weed farmers’ markets have arrived. All right, so far it’s just the one, but Las Vegas has welcomed Acres Cannabis, a dispensary that plays host to what the New York Post calls “the world’s first marijuana farmers’ market” for recreational pot…
Recreational marijuana use has been legal in Colorado since 2014, but a recent study marks the first time the state has examined which occupations are most likely to take advantage. NBC News reports the Colorado Department Of Health commissioned the survey of roughly 10,000 workers, which found that hotel and…
The growth of the legal cannabis industry is so explosive that even noted tastemaker John Boehner is getting in on the action. Given that, perhaps this piece of news from Comstock’s should come as no surprise: 12 years from now, the legal pot business will surpass the legal sugar-water business. That is, assuming…
Fast-food restaurant staff are painfully aware that potheads associate their product with an evening of bong rips. Such customers are fooling no one with their glassy eyes and stammering speech as they struggle to coherently order two cheeseburgers and a large milkshake. But a Sonic location in Gulfport, Mississippi…
Restaurants in expensive cities like New York and San Francisco have for years struggled to hire and retain kitchen staff. Not only is Denver experiencing a rise in its cost of living, but it faces a compounding challenge that’s unique to just a few states: the marijuana industry is stealing its employees.
It’s kind of surprising this doesn’t happen more often, as most marijuana-laced “edibles” resemble nothing as much as actual candy, like gummy bears and lollipops. Still, this story out of New Mexico is rather horrifying, as a fifth-grader found an edibles box and took it to school to share with her class, thinking it…
“Marijuana coffee?” I stare at the two words next to each other, imagining myself jittering while ordering too much Domino’s. Sounds terrible.
But the producers of new KickBack Cold Brew, a cannabinoid-infused, ready-to-drink cold brew coffee line, claim uppers and downers aren’t incompatible. They say the coffees,…
