The Colorado medical marijuana patient registry saw the largest increase in active patient numbers in months this summer, growing by 2,475 patients to 109,292 people from June to July. The Department of Revenue received a total of 3,514 applications during that time period and hasn’t reported any denials. That means…
Editor’s note: William Breathes is on assignment — which gives us the perfect excuse to flash back to his very first Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule. By the 1930s, cannabis was considered a growing menace in Denver society. The drug of choice for minorities (mostly Hispanic natives and immigrants who worked…
This dispensary has closed. Some medical dispensaries (and soon-to-be recreational dispensaries) are just begging for a change in laws. What kind of change? One that would allow people to hang out and puff herb with other patients. So far, nobody has really stepped up to take that on. If it…
Dear Stoner: I found a few seeds in a bag last winter and planted them in my back yard earlier this spring. I know enough to know I lucked out in getting a female plant, but when exactly do I harvest this thing? I can’t find any definitive answers. Green…
The Colorado Department of Revenue has released its set of rules for the soon-to-be recreational marijuana industry. And there are a lot of them. The document is 144 pages long; see it below. Much of the language in the doc is taken from existing medical marijuana rules in Colorado (which…
We aren’t exactly sure who the clandestine growers in this September 2, 1948 story about marijuana growing in a Routt County canyon were, but hippies and mountain towns go together like organic hummus on vegan bread. Like peanut butter and jelly sourced from local farms. Like marijuana and, well, hippies…
Naming a Denver medical marijuana dispensary “Denver Dispensary” probably seemed like a good idea at the time: any random toker searching search for “Denver dispensary” will see their website first and likely click on it. But the generic name has had the opposite effect for me. I hadn’t heard of…
Dear Stoner: I know that smoking marijuana openly isn’t legal anywhere, but what if I’m parked in my RV at a campsite with the windows rolled up and nobody can see me? Would that be legal? Pot Smokey the Bear Dear Bear: I like where your head is at, but…
Boulder City Council members gave initial approval to newly created medical and recreational marijuana rules at last night’s meeting, picking up where they left off months ago after voting to delay rule-making until after statewide regulations had been laid out. According to the draft posted in the council agenda, most…
It’s a holiday weekend and you’re (hopefully) already out smoking spliffs and forgetting about the Internet for three days. So we’ll keep today’s Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule brief. This blurb from Castle Rock’s Record-Journal newspaper, dated October 1931, is about a brief encounter with a man who briefly lost his…
Standing Akimbo’s products aren’t new to me at all. We’ve featured SA’s potent, award-winning edibles in numerous articles over the years. But we’ve never actually made it over to the oddball little building the shop calls home, a place just on the edge of Jason Street, overhanging the dip in…
Dear Stoner: Do Americans smoke way more herb than the rest of the world, or is there somewhere else I should be living? Smoke Two Joints Dear Two Joints: A staggering amount of Americans have smoked cannabis — we consume more than 18 million pounds of it annually, by some…
With more than two dozen cities and as many as fifty counties deciding against allowing recreational marijuana sales in one way or another, it seems that finding a legal bag of herb for sale come January 1 will be limited to a handful of locales. Some places are seeing this…
Did you know that if you close your eyes you can make pictures like photographs on the back of your eyelids? Yes. You probably did know that, as does anyone who had a childhood. Which is what makes this 1904 borderline stream-of-conscious editorial about the fantastic images laying in wait…
The word “lush” can describe the thick foliage of a plant, something lavishly productive, or an object or experience that is sensational. The term has also taken on the slang meaning for a sloppy drunk, though that connotation doesn’t really come to mind after visiting Lush, which has been around…
Dear Stoner: Can this hippie medicine really cure cancer, or are all of these activists just getting too high off their own supply?Key Mo Dear Key: Yes, some parts of the cannabis plant have been shown to kill cancer cells in certain cases — though to say outright that marijuana…
While its stance isn’t surprising, the National Institute on Drug Abuse defied all common knowledge, logic and science earlier this week by contending that alcohol and marijuana are equally toxic. The NIDA position is an indirect response to the Marijuana Policy Project’s message that marijuana is a much safer recreational…
Denver City Council has marijuana on the brain, though sadly not in the way we would like to see. Council spent most of yesterday dealing with marijuana issues, starting with a three-hour committee meeting focused largely on zoning and ending with a lengthy council meeting spent debating marijuana tax proposals…
The rulemaking surrounding Amendment 64 is in full swing at the state level. The Department of Revenue has released a set of draft rule changes and clarifications for a huge chunk of medical marijuana law, as well as draft regs regarding the recreational cannabis industry. The 100-plus page document is…
Egyptians? Yeah, they smoke the herb. Same with Persians, Turks, English, Austrians, French and Italians. But especially Egyptians. They love their hash. Oh, and as for Greeks? They don’t smoke it at all. At least, that was the case in 1908 according to the then-Greek consulate Edward I. Nathan in…
All right now. Won’t you listen? Or read, as the case may be? Black Sabbath may be one of my earliest musical obsessions — something that had a lot to do with the theatrics of Ozzy Osbourne and his slaying guitarists. The most memorable to me is Tony Iommi. Specifically,…
Dear Stoner: I just moved to Colorado, and I want to learn about the different types of weed. But looking in the back of Westword can be a little overwhelming. What do you think is a good starting point for finding the info? E3K Dear E3K: We’ve been over this…
