Here's a big question that's still on my mind. Sure, books have been written that give lots of ways cannabis can fulfill its great promise as medicine for both people and planet. And of course when you pose this big question to a cannabis-friendly audience you'll get a lot of heads nodding yes, and mine would be one of them. But...
I must wonder if we're doing enough beyond the business end of things to help cannabis fulfill its great promise. In our pioneering state of Colorado for instance, there are of course many areas where legalized cannabis is obviously helping us, medically to economically. And yet the resulting growth (directly and indirectly due to cannabis) may be killing us. Sprawl, congestion, traffic, litter, homelessness, cost of living, all the stresses that come with this...these and other problems are only getting worse. Indeed, even with all this healing herb now legally and easily infused into our consciousness, there still appears a great imbalance, as the next slide suggests...