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The Plight of the Pre-Legalization Marijuana Offender

What should happen to weed users and dealers busted before the stuff was legal?

Sam Kamin and Joel Warner
June 11 2014 8:51 AMDon’t Eat the Whole ThingHow edibles became the marijuana industry’s biggest headache.Sam Kamin and Joel Warner
Jan. 31 2014 12:04 PMYour Money StinksWhy banks won’t do business with the marijuana industry. (And why it’s a huge problem.)Sam Kamin and Joel Warner
Jan. 16 2014 11:34 PMDime StoreHow lucrative is it to be one of Colorado’s legal marijuana dealers? (Not as lucrative as being an illegal one.)Sam Kamin and Joel Warner
Jan. 6 2014 11:18 AMMap: Conservative Voters Who Supported Pot in ColoradoPot was twice as popular as Obama in some rural counties.Chris Kirk and Matt Mellema
Dec. 12 2013 10:33 AMBlazing a TrailColorado is about to become the first state in the modern world to legalize marijuana from seed to sale—is it ready?Sam Kamin and Joel Warner
Feb. 5 2014 11:47 PMBaking BadHow dabbing—smoking potent, highly processed hash oil—could blow up Colorado’s legalization experiment.Sam Kamin and Joel Warner
Jan. 22 2014 11:49 PM“Need Room to Grow?”Marijuana-friendly real estate agents and other enterprising businesspeople looking to make a bundle from Colorado’s weed industry.Sam Kamin and Joel Warner
Jan. 8 2014 11:47 PMNew AmsterdamIs Colorado—and its pot supply—ready for weed tourism?Sam Kamin and Joel Warner
Dec. 19 2013 11:28 AMWatched PotColorado has a wildly ambitious plan to track every legal marijuana plant from seed to sale. Will it work?Sam Kamin and Joel Warner