Dear Stoner: I really love live reggae, but lately I’m afraid that I’ll get high from all the smoke in the air. I work for the federal government and am subject to random drug screening at work. I’ll get fired if THC is found in my system. Is it possible…

Rebecca Maez, the woman accused of killing cannabis advocate Jenny “Kush” Friede and seriously injuring her boyfriend, Jeremy DePinto, in a Labor Day drunk-driving incident will stand trial next month. Denver judge James B. Race made that decision yesterday at an emotionally raw and moving 45-minute preliminary hearing to determine…

Yesterday, Melanie Asmar wrote about the first legal hemp crop in Colorado (and the U.S.) in more than fifty years. It’s a big step forward for advocates, who would like to see hemp return to the legal, useful status it once enjoyed. Like, for example, as a way to rid…

I could probably hit the Mile High Green Cross sign from the front door of Westword’s 10th and Broadway offices using a slingshot. I point that out because, despite being the closest medical marijuana dispensary to my desk, I’ve only been there a handful of times. But a fellow Westword…

The number of people signing up for their state medical marijuana cards just barely outpaced the thousands of people dropping off the list from July to August. While the total number of new applications for the medical marijuana registry increased by 3,640 from June through August, to 230,847, the total…

Venerable pot magazine High Times has been focusing on Colorado quite a bit over the last few years, including naming Colorado strains as the most potent staffers have seen and bringing their annual Cannabis Cup events to the Mile High City. This month’s High Times feature keeps up that trend,…

Dear Stoner: My grower said his greenhouse in Weld County got flooded, and he offered to let me take some plants home if I help him clean up. He said the place smells like manure from the floodwaters. My question: Is the stuff safe to smoke? Because I sure don’t…

We’ve run a few articles about pot and soldiers so far in Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule, and most have the same theme: Marijuana makes you crazy and unfit for duty. But this 1914 article from the Akron Weekly Pioneer Press brings the anti-Hispanic, racial undertones of the early anti-marijuana movement…

It didn’t hit me until I drove into the cracked-concrete parking lot of the squat, brick building on Kipling that I’d been there before. Two years ago, actually, when what is now Infinite Wellness was Green Meadows Wellness — a dumpy shop with a skimpy selection, green kief and mid-grade…

Dear Stoner: So last week you said Denver was a pretty tolerant place to light up outside of sporting events, and then pot lawyer Rob Corry gets arrested at Coors Field. What’s up with that? Para Noid Dear Noid: Rob Corry’s arrest on September 25 is a good example of…

Creative commons/Matt Wright.Yesterday marked the deadline for Colorado’s 271 cities and towns and 64 counties to decide whether they want to ban recreational cannabis businesses and sales — and it is starting to look like Denver will be ganja ground zero. Already, four of the ten largest cities in Colorado…

Westword cover story subject Jenny Kush’s favorite color was purple. So it was only fitting that her friends and family — draped in purple T-shirts — gathered last night to remember Kush, a cannabis activist killed by a drunk driver, by the purple flowers on the west steps of the…

Every now and then on our searches for Cannabis Time Capsule artifacts, we find news briefs too short to post about on their own. But they are too good to go unread, so we’ve compiled a handful of our favorites below. Read on to find out the explanation for psychedelic…

The recent floods in Boulder had one positive effect: The University of Colorado football game was canceled last weekend. I know it’s selfish of me, but Boulder is much, much easier to get around without thousands of people masquerading as fans for a subpar college football team and using it…

Dear Stoner: We’re flying in for the Eagles game next weekend, and I want to get stoned before I go in. What’s my over-under on that? Green & Black Dear Fans of a Lesser Team: This question has come up a few times, actually. Yes, you can get stoned before…

Last week, Telluride officially approved sales of recreational cannabis, joining a majority of other tourism-reliant ski towns around the state that have given an okay to the ganja. Telluride took one of the easiest routes to retail-weed approval possible, with the city council voting in an application and regulatory system…

In reporting “The life and tragic death of cannabis advocate Jenny Kush,” our feature article about a cannabis activist and Internet radio host killed by a drunk driver, we heard a lot of good stories and kind words that we just couldn’t quite squeeze in. Thankfully, there’s always room on…

Last week’s feature on Jenny Kush, a cannabis activist killed by a drunk driver, brought to light just one of the 1,342 impaired-driving arrests in Colorado made over a nineteen-day period around Labor Day weekend. Figuring out how many people are caught driving stoned is especially important here, since doing…

In researching this week’s feature article about the life and death of cannabis activist Jenny Kush, a lot of people we spoke with emphasized that she was also quite the artist in addition to the long list of other hats she wore — including the host of SexPot Radio. iCannabisRadio…

This dispensary has closed. If there were ever businesses open to the public even though the public clearly didn’t want them to be, they’d have to be the few remaining Blockbuster Video stores that have limped along through the past five or six years. With a selection of ten DVDs…

This week’s feature article about the life and death of cannabis activist Jenny Kush tells the story of a woman who connected with hundreds thousands of people in part through a no-holds-barred weekly radio show covering two of her favorite topics: sex and marijuana. Kush may have been taken away…