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The $3 ‘Cover Charge’ Cannabis Retailers Are Leaving on the Table
Imagine every customer who enters a dispensary paying the business an additional $3. No new entrance fee. No increase in cannabis prices. No additional foot traffic required. The retailer simply captures about $5 in accessory sales per customer, with an average gross margin of roughly 60%. That produces approximately $3 in additional gross profit from […]
It Smells Like Weed Everywhere – Cannabis Etiquette in 2027 and Beyond
Aryna Sabalenka, the two-time defending U.S. Open champion and the best women’s tennis player on the planet, had to stop mid-service game at Louis Armstrong Stadium a few days ago because someone in or around the crowd was smoking weed hard enough to reach the court. She flagged the umpire, said the smell was so […]
The Home Alchemist: Taking Your Cannabis Harvest Further Than You Thought Possible
So you grew the plant. Maybe it was in a greenhouse, maybe a closet, maybe a spare bedroom you told your mother-in-law is now a “storage room.” Doesn’t matter. You did it. You navigated the weeks of vegetative growth, managed the flip to flower, watched the trichomes go cloudy to amber, harvested, dried, and cured. […]
5 Warming and Cooling CBD Topicals to Compare in 2026
Some CBD topicals announce themselves the second they touch the skin. Menthol produces an immediate chill. Capsaicin and camphor can add warmth. Other formulas skip the temperature shift and feel more like an ordinary moisturizer or balm. That sensory experience has become one of the more useful ways to separate products in an increasingly crowded […]
Big Pharma’s Cannabis Takeover: The Hidden Dangers of Schedule III
Sell the Farm, Lose the Freedom: How Schedule III Could Hand Cannabis to Pharma and Ag I want you to picture the corner of your local farmers market twenty years from now. Same tents, same handwritten signs, same guy selling honey shaped like a bear. Except the produce stand that used to belong to a […]
3 Reasons the GOP’s Anti-Cannabis Strategy is Going to Backfire Wildly
The GOP’s Reefer Madness Revival Is Going to Backfire Spectacularly Somebody in the Republican party looked at twenty-plus years of polling, watched cannabis legalization win in state after state — red, blue, purple, doesn’t matter — and decided the winning move in 2026 was to relitigate 1985. I’m not exaggerating for effect. Slate’s Nitish Pahwa […]
Are Pharmacies the New Dispensary Model? Utah Thinks So
Georgia has captured national attention by allowing medical cannabis to be sold through independent pharmacies. Utah has spent the past six years developing another version of the pharmacy model, one designed specifically for cannabis. Utah’s medical cannabis pharmacies do not dispense conventional prescription drugs. They sell cannabis products exclusively, but each location must have a […]
What is Aura Farming? – The Stoners Grew up and Now Their Kids are Aura Farming around the World
The Stoners Grew Up, and Their Kids Are Doing Something Called “Aura Farming” Somewhere in America right now, a 42-year-old parent is packing a bowl in the garage after the kids go to bed, the same way they did in a dorm room twenty years ago. Meanwhile, upstairs, their teenager is standing perfectly still in […]
How a Simple 3-Email Sequence Drove ROI for This Dispensary
How do you win back customers who drifted away? You know the type: they used to come into your dispensary regularly, then just stopped. No complaint, no goodbye. They found a shorter line, a better deal, or a store closer to home. Competition is fierce, but you don’t need a massive ad budget to get […]
High Education – The Top 50 Colleges in America for a Great Education and Cannabis Culture on Campus
Each fall, a fresh new wave of students arrives on campuses throughout the United States. These freshmen arrive with a backpack, a laptop, various educational materials needed for college, and, of course, many also bring their favorite weed paraphernalia tucked into their bag. Weed has long been part of college life in schools all over […]