There is certainly no wrong way to cultivate cannabis, as anyone growing cannabis plants in their basement can attest. But, there’s definitely a right way to cost-effectively grow high-quality plants. Expert cultivators optimize key performance indicators like pounds per light, grams per watt, or grams per square foot of flower canopy, since utilities and labor tend to…

DENVER – Minutes after a group of New Jersey lawmakers entered the stark industrial Medicine Man marijuana cultivation center, an employee in blue scrubs rushed between them, pushing a plastic cart filled with pots containing a dozen leafy, two-foot-tall cannabis plants. There was a scramble by the legislators and their aides to clear a path,…

DENVER — Colorado marijuana operations are serving as a cannabis classroom for lawmakers across the country. This week, a delegation of Democrats and Republicans from the New Jersey legislature are spending time in Colorado hoping to learn the successes and challenges facing the industry.  Medical marijuana sales are currently legal in the Garden State.  Lawmakers…

Doug Ducey received free tickets to the second annual Southwest Cannabis Conference, but event organizer Demitri Downing isn’t holding his breath for the Arizona governor to attend. Downing says he also sent complimentary passes to Attorney General Mark Brnovich and Secretary of State Michele Reagan, but they wouldn’t be shocking no-shows either. All three oppose…