**Now with Part 10, "Political Implications," the most outrageous chapter yet! and Part 11, "Smile, You're on Cannabis Camera," a playful romp detailing regulators running amok and their deliciously fascist takes on controlling medical marijuana.** How much pot tax could be collected in a legal, regulated society? Lots, like $75 billion. At long last, six months in the making, after wading through white papers, interviewing experts, and turning over rocks in a compulsive crusade to determine the best MPMTR (maximum pot-tential marijuana taxation revenue) guesstimate possible, Cannabis Commerce presents Cannabis Commerce in the USA. This series reveals how we arrived at our 2010 figures, in language you don’t need a PhD to understand. More

When I began writing Cannabis Commerce in the USA back in February, free enterprise – cannabis style – was in full swing. And things were really swinging in my neighborhood, South Denver. Places like Santa Monica, CA, had a head start, but we were catching up, if not surpassing them in dispensaries per capita. I couldn’t wait to write about it. More

Been wondering how to break into the pot economy? Wonder no more. The Ripple Effect of Cannabis Commerce follows the path of someone very much like you and me, that is, someone alert for opportunity in the fertile field of cannabis commerce . . . who just happens to live in a marijuana-friendly community like mine. Am I living through my characters? More

MedicalCodingCertification.com has just named Cannabis Commerce one of its 30 Best Blogs to Learn About Medical Marijuana. Nice to be in such good company after only four months in existence. We're happy to share the love with the 29 other like-minded blogs/sites. View the list in its entirety by clicking "More." More

Recent Brown economics major Max Chaiken's senior thesis, The Other Green Economy, contributes vision, open-mindedness, and compulsion to the pastime of seeking MPMTR (maximum pot-ential marijuana taxation revenue). It predicts a whopping $212 billion, which ruffles the feathers of more experienced economists. More

Harvard professor Jeff Miron is the go-to guy for pot tax quotes. The Miron Report is the mother of all poteconomics papers. Curiously, the author remains detached from his subject. For Miron, weed is “just another boring agricultural thing.” He defends his conservative estimate like it’s the Alamo. Then why do we like him so much? More

A wise man once offered this valuable life advice: “Show up. Pay attention. Have no expectations.” Ignoring the last advice, I was definitely harboring expectations for Cannabis Commerce’s 04/05/2010 interview with Jon Gettman, past director of NORML, author of at least two all-time great studies, High Times columnist, and longstanding marijuana authority. That expectation was [...] More