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Porcine Ramblings: Cannabis Enforcement in WA
“You’re big and bad and scary — But people see through you” (Bruce Cockburn) As we approach the 25th Anniversary Celebration of Hempfest (North America’s Biggest and the World’s Best Protestival), I...
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420 and Trump – The Devil’s Work?
(Author’s Note: This is not meant to be a political posting, and I truly hope that readers do not take it as such. I make it a point not to engage in National Politics in this...
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Peak Potency — Lab Friendliness is back with a gusto!
I find myself becoming increasingly disgusted by a few of the obviously bad blatant things that are happening in Washington’s State-legal Cannabis industry under the watchful eye of it’s Regulators,...
View Article4/20 Washington Retail Sales – Actual Numbers
I’ve seen a number of estimates of what 4/20 would bring in Retail Cannabis sales in Washington recently and was successful in keeping my mouth (and keyboard) shut on the issue this year. After...
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Store Stenchyness – Don’t let the Friendlies Kill You
This is intended to be #7 in my series of PSAs (Patient Service Announcements). I hope you are all enjoying the medical market that our legislators created for you in SSB-5052. At least the CPC...
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PSA 7b – Know What is Testing your Cannabis
As a follow-on to my recent posts regarding the odd results being reported by lab 0015 (PEAK ANALYTICS) and the degree of lab-induced Stenchyness gracing the shelves of some of the stores around the...
View ArticleMayDay Anarchists Funding our Government
On Monday, the State of Washington saw $2,429,211 in pre-tax Cannabis sales reported by State-legal and duly regulated Cannabis Retail establishments. This is a rather large number for a Monday. I’m...
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Facts and Alt-Facts: How 2 Labs Report on Potency
In this post, I am going to spare you my interpretation. I’m just going to show you two graphs (and a morphed combination of the two). My expectation is that some of the readers of this post who take a...
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Potency – as it should be?
This follow-on of my recent post “Facts and Alt-Facts: How 2 labs Report on Potency” serves primarily as a response to those readers and interested parties that took the time to comment either on how...
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Enough on the Labs, Already! My Closing Words on a Filthy Issue.
It’s been a labor of love, these past two years putzing with the laboratory data and occasionally digesting (and deflecting) ad hominen feedback. (The above logo, of a baby Cannabis clone being...
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Oops! We Seem to Have Forgotten to Protect Patients in Washington
The closet numerologist and gregarious creature hidden deep within compels me to wish you a happy 7/17/17! In one of the many numerical quirks of the Universe, if one takes 7-17-17 and decomposes it,...
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Active Store Count & Average per-Store Cannabis Sales
I am one of those quants that is generally cautious of the tyranny of the mean. Averages are clearly useful for understanding how normative levels change (if at all) as a function of different inputs...
View ArticleIdentifying Patient-Killing Frankenstein Stores: First Steps
Based on the data from the first year of Washington’s Regulated Medical Cannabis System, my assumption that the Patient Protection Act (SSB-5052) of 2015 would actually protect those Washingtonians who...
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Where to Find Terpestival Winners – Top Retail Access Points
Last Saturday, CASP (The Cannabis & Social Policy Center) put on the 3rd annual Terpestival in Seattle down in SODO. – with the help of the wonderful Lara Kaminsky and a growing rank of helpers...
View ArticleNow that PEAK is gone, who will earn the Pointy-Headed Lab Crown?
PEAK Analytics up in Bellingham (aka Lab 0015) apparently just had their certification suspended for reasons known only to RJ-Lee, the WSLCB, God, Allah, Buddha and, presumably PEAK (and Confidence...
View ArticlePull PEAK-tested Product Now: A letter to the LCB
I just sent the following e-mail off to the LCB Board members and some key Staff. If any of you know Governor Inslee’s e-mail, would you mind either forwarding it to me or forwarding the following on...
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Consumer Alert: Potentially Dangerous Product
On Friday, I suggested in an e-mail to the LCB that all product that has been tested by PEAK Analytics should be pulled from the shelves of Washington’s State-legal Cannabis Retail Access Points....
View ArticleQuicky: Average Daily Excise Tax now over $1,000,000
Over the first 7 days of August, the Retail Excise tax on recreational and medical cannabis in Washington State averaged over $1,000,000 per day. That corresponds to average statewide Retail sales just...
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Consumer Alert: How to best find product properly tested for bad bugs.
“An ignorant consumer is a marketer’s dream” The continued availability of PEAK-tested product to those Washington consumers wishing to acquire their Cannabis from State-legal access points is not an...
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