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About Marcus Chen & Cannabis Daily Guide

Important notice: This site provides information for adults 21+ in legal states. Always check your local laws. We do not sell cannabis products.

I’m Marcus Chen, a journalist based in Denver, Colorado, and Cannabis Daily Guide is where I’ve parked my obsession with one of the most chaotic, consequential, and misunderstood industries in modern America.

From Tech Desk to Cannabis Desk

For roughly a decade, I covered consumer technology — product launches, antitrust filings, the long boom and occasional busts of Silicon Valley. In 2019, a friend working in Colorado’s regulated cannabis market asked me why no one with a reporter’s skepticism was covering what was happening on the ground. The answer was that most cannabis writing at the time sat somewhere between marketing copy and counter-culture nostalgia. So I packed up, moved east of the Rockies, and started learning the beat from scratch: METRC compliance, seed-to-sale tracking, the difference between hemp-derived and marijuana-derived cannabinoids, the politics of the 280E tax code. Six years later, I’m still learning.

What This Site Covers

Cannabis Daily Guide publishes reporting and analysis across four core areas: industry news (M&A, regulation, enforcement actions), strain reviews written by experienced consumers rather than marketing teams, CBD and wellness coverage grounded in the latest peer-reviewed literature, and legal updates tracking rescheduling, state-by-state adult-use developments, and the slow grind toward federal coherence.

Editorial Values

Three principles anchor our editorial approach. First, compliance first — we do not promote consumption in states where it remains illegal, we respect age-gating, and we never present cannabis as a cure. Second, evidence over anecdote — wellness claims, whenever possible, are tied to primary research and flagged as preliminary where the science is still thin. Third, independence — sponsored content exists on this site, but it is clearly labelled and it never bleeds into our news reporting. If a brand pays for placement, the reader sees the tag.

Who Reads Us

Our audience is split roughly between consumers who want good information before they walk into a dispensary and industry professionals — growers, lab staff, compliance officers, dispensary buyers, investors — who need a daily signal sorted out of the noise. We’re read in all 24 adult-use states and a surprising number of places where cannabis remains illegal but curiosity is high.

A Final Word

Cannabis is a real plant with real effects, used by real people for reasons that range from medical necessity to weekend unwinding. It deserves coverage that is neither breathless nor sneering. That’s what I’m trying to deliver here, one article at a time. If you spot an error or disagree with a take, the contact page is always open.

Publisher

This site is a publication of Greenwood Editorial Group. We produce editorially independent, high-quality content for cannabis readers.