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Welcome to Straight Line Analytics

This website serves primarily to house my blog, HI-Blog (www.highintelligence.org), which captures much of the largely data-driven work I’ve done since 2015 focusing on the emerging “legal” cannabis market in Washington state.  HI-Blog does not contain much of the commercial work I have done, but instead focuses on issues related to product safety and consumer (and patient) protection.

I formed Straight Line Analytics as Washington state began to implement a regulated commercial cannabis market in the nation’s second state to “legalize it”.  The transparency laws of this state and the resulting wealth of relevant data provided a wonderful opportunity to apply analytics to questions holding significant commercial and social meaning.  

As of Aug, 2023, I will no longer be doing work on behalf of Washington State regulated cannabis businesses.  I might make exception for friends and/or if the project involves consumer protection, fixing or improving the broken medical cannabis system within the state, embracing the harm reduction potential of cannabis and/or something that truly interests me (or that a friend really needs to have done).

Otherwise, I’m done with the regulated system in this state and, more importantly, my professional support thereof.  My emphasis going forward, and in HI-Blog, will be on consumer protection, fixing medical cannabis in WA, and shedding light on weaknesses in the legislative and regulatory structures (and implementation) that largely define this state’s market.