Defunct teledentistry firm SmileDirectClub urged a Houston bankruptcy judge Thursday to greenlight the company's bid to wind down its insolvency through the ongoing Chapter 11 process, rather than Chapter 7, despite calls from creditors and the U.S. Trustee's Office to convert the case and liquidate the business.
Before cannabis companies began commissioning work from artists for their packaging and other products, they hired them to create art on their stores. At first this was a way to announce the newly legal industry; later it became a way for stores to set themselves apart with increasingly intricate pieces.
As Colorado’s street-art scene continues to grow, more and more cannabis companies are splashing murals across dispensary buildings. Diego Pellicer, Silver Stem Fine Cannabis, Canna City, Berkeley Dispensary, Higher Grade and the Green Solution are just a few of the enterprises that have commissioned artists to paint unique and attention-grabbing murals on their dispensary locations.
The Rotherhams tasked Denver firm Studio K2 Architecture with designing a monumental building to host their dispensary something they call “the Taj Mahal of dispensaries.
“I want it to be awe. Everywhere you look, you’re in awe,” Alicia says. We wanted to make something that was a destination more than your average dispensary.”
A 3,500-square-foot retail area occupies the building s second floor, with a marijuana processing facility complete with an industrial kitchen and a butane extractor on the first floor. Sections of glass flooring allow visitors to watch edibles and concentrate production in the facility below, with signs explaining each step of the manufacturing process.
Robert Gray moved to Denver in 2017, in part for Colorado s weed. Growing up in the Midwest first Chicago and later Milwaukee he knew that being caught with cannabis in a state where the plant was illegal could come with legal consequences he didn t want to risk. He quickly found work in the cannabis industry here, first as a budtender at Starbuds, then as a sales representative and, later, a community engagement specialist at Craft Extracts, a position that introduced him to the world of marijuana marketing.
During his time in the notoriously un-diverse cannabis industry, Gray, who is Black, encountered racist behavior. He was called the N-word during his first week as a budtender, and although the incident was addressed, Gray recognized that this state s marijuana industry has a long way to go when it comes to inclusion and social equity.
As the legal marijuana market continues to expand, our four-legged companions have unwittingly gotten caught up in the cannabis craze. While there are plenty of CBD products for dogs and cats on the market, an unintended and negative consequence of the expanding business has been animal ingestion of psychoactive THC products.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (known for its Sarah McLachlan-assisted ugly-cry commercial) reports that its 24-hour Animal Poison Control Hotline saw a 765 percent increase in marijuana-related calls between 2008 and 2018. THC products are usually dosed for much larger humans; when they re accidentally ingested by pets, they can cause problems, sometimes major ones. A study of 125 cannabis-related veterinary hospital admissions in Colorado found that two small dogs died after getting into medical-grade THC edibles.