In HIGH COUNTRY, Motherboard heads to Denver–ground zero for cannabis legalization, and home to a booming tech sector in what could be called the Silicon Valley of weed–to inhale the newest high-tech highs. We visit the key players scaling up this new green tech, wrap our heads around all the money to be made, crack open the confusing science of America’s No. 1 cash crop, and smoke dabs.
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