Earlier this month, the world received more indicators that the “Green Rush,” once merely on the horizon, is advancing into view with increasing velocity. It really wasn’t long ago that most portrayals of legal cannabis consumers reflected long-held clichés,...

While cannabis has been used medicinally for centuries, it was only at the beginning of the 20th century that it became a target for regulation and thus a topic in the media. Not coincidentally, cannabis prohibition followed the emancipation of African Americans from...