Washington state officials will accept applications for new pot shops starting next month. On Wednesday, the state’s Liquor and Cannabis Board voted to begin aligning the state’s recreational and medical marijuana systems, a necessary

With the sun rising and roosters crowing, Josh Miller rolls out of a bed tucked in a greenhouse full of lush marijuana plants and lights up a joint. That’s how the Seattle attorney starts his

It’s a big weekend for Tom Lauerman, one of Clark County’s most fascinating and prominent marijuana advocates. Not only is Farmer Tom the subject of a Sunday Business section centerpiece on marijuana tourism (stay tuned

Farmer Tom Lauerman, one of Southwest Washington’s most interesting cannabis characters, is in the limelight again. Yesterday, Farmer Tom was featured in a Q&A by CULTURE Magazine profiling his life and times with marijuana, both before

Happy Friday, folks! Some friends of Vancouver’s Farmer Tom (Lauerman) have been busy putting together a new database of interesting stats all about marijuana strains. It’s called the Cannabis Transparency Project, and if you haven’t

With just about six weeks left to the one-year anniversary of recreational cannabis in Washington, a new sign of the normalization of that industry has appeared. Under the leadership of the labor union United Food

I asked Tom Lauerman, a Vancouver medical marijuana grower and activist, if he could give us his take on the changes to medical marijuana in 5052 (which merges the medical and recreational marijuana systems in

Paula Lauerman, wife of Farmer Tom Lauerman, a Vancouver medical marijuana grower, has some comments to share as the state looks at combining the medical marijuana system with the recreational system. The farm was recently

Our video guru, Ariane Kunze, is working on a new series that will follow Vancouver’s Farmer Tom Lauerman through the season as he plants, grows and harvests his medical marijuana crop. She just finished up

I went out to Tom Lauerman’s farm this morning to chat with him about the harvesting phase of farming. Most outdoor growers – both I-502 and medical – are entering their big harvest season right