Being in a landlocked state, anything here that is beach-themed automatically feels campy and corny. Tiki bars, snow-cone stands, Hawaiian shirts, windsurfing — all of it. So needless to say, the tropical-themed Medicinal Oasis, with its Jimmy Buffet/yacht club decor, was not winning style points with me from the get-go…

Dear Stoner: I enjoy smoking herb at concerts, but I’m a germophobe and hate sharing bowls with strangers nearby who ask for a hit. Is it totally un-stoner to puff and not pass? Rolling Stoned Dear RS: While classic stoner etiquette would tell you otherwise, I think it’s totally fine…

Despite nearly 10,000 new-patient applications in the first quarter of 2013, the number of active medical marijuana patients in Colorado hasn’t changed much since January 1. Between December 31 and the end of March, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the MMJ registry received 9,557 new…

This week we’re traveling back to July of 1893, just as cannabis started to become demonized in the media. This article from the Colorado Transcript in Golden, is based on a British report on hash regulations in Egypt, Greece and Turkey. The story talks about the “general ignorance which prevails…

It’s been almost three years since I checked out Pure’s original location, on Bannock just south of the Denver Art Museum. Since then, the shop has expanded to two other locations quietly selling cannabis with what seems like little to no media presence. No cannabis cups and no obnoxious Internet…

Dear Stoner: I recently read some quote from Thomas Jefferson about smoking bowls on his patio. Did our Founding Fathers actually smoke the hemp they were growing? History Buff Dear Buff: The quote that is falsely attributed to T.J. — “Some of my finest hours have been spent on my…

Reverend Brandon Baker, leader of Colorado’s Greenfaith Ministries — a cannabis-centric congregation out of Nunn, just east of Fort Collins — thinks that not only is the new pot-driving law unnecessary, but that it also unfairly targets medical and religious users of cannabis. In fact, he sees it as such…

This week’s Cannabis Time Capsule, which stems from Ouray and goes all the way back to 1910, shows what might be the modern origins of stoner lore that the word “assassin” stems from hashish. According to legend, hash-stoned mercenaries carried out murders for their blood-thirsty ruler in exchange for more…

Green Cross of Cherry Creek is in an old three-story office building; Green Cross is on the second floor, along with a nail salon that I’m sure at least a few stoners have absentmindedly walked into before getting a whiff of acrylic nail polish instead of skunk. I say that…

Dear Stoner: With the recent passing of the five-nanogram driving limit for THC, I’m worried that even while sober, as a regular smoker I’ll technically be over the limit. Should I sell my car and resign myself to public transportation? 16L4Life Dear Sixteen: The new five-nanogram law is unscientific bullshit…

By the 1920s, newspapers were no stranger to salacious stories about the evil scourge of drugs and their corrupting force. (Not much has changed, actually). This particular entry in our Cannabis Time Capsule series isn’t so much a story, but a photo — from the Wet Mountain Tribune out of…

As strip malls go, the one Emerald City calls home is about as run-down as it gets. I’m sure that the surrounding small businesses — at least four Hispanic-centric Westernwear and boot stores, two sports bars, a liquor store and some taco joints — all have positives behind their doors…

Dear Stoner: I recently started using medical marijuana to control the nausea that comes with Crohn’s disease. It works better than any of the old drugs I used to use; is it doing something different? J.H. Dear JH: Not different, just better. According to researchers, high amounts of THC in…

If state lawmakers don’t iron out rules for this state’s recreational marijuana industry by the close of the legislative session tonight, the good folks of Nederland just might do it for themselves. Back in February, activists with the Amendment 64 Shadow Task Force told the Nederland Board of Trustees they…

Here’s a great example of people trying to making cannabis sound foreign and scary through news reports, when the reality of the situation is much more benign — just a few people getting stoned and enjoying a laugh. This 1901 story, published in the Glenwood (Springs) Post, talks about a…

The Healing House menu is freaking huge, and that alone makes it seem like another warehouse crap shack in the boonies getting by on a (somewhat) isolated location to sell bud. The isolated-location part is true, with the shop pretty much at the western end of Alameda just a few…

Dear Stoner: What are these “clones” I see advertised? Are people really cloning marijuana plants like that sheep in Scotland? Dolly Lama Dear Dolly: We’re actually amassing an army of tiny clone warriors, not unlike in Star Wars — only we’re doing it with cannabis plants. The whole peaceful-revolution thing…

Could Alaska be the next state to legalize and regulate small amounts of cannabis for personal use? Supporters in Juneau think so. The process has begun to gather signatures for a ballot measure that would legalize up to an ounce of marijuana for personal use, allow for home cultivation and…

Here’s a pretty interesting and surprising positive story about cannabis being used as a medicine from the Colorado Banner out of Boulder County from July 1876 — making this the oldest Cannabis Time Capsule piece we’ve run. And though the mention of marijuana is brief, it illustrates how cannabis might…

I like sticky buds — like when you’re in the mood to roll and you start picking one apart, and it leaves your fingers feeling like they’ve been super-glued. The kind of sticky that you have to wipe your hands off before you reach for the paper or you’ll rip…

Dear Stoner: My bong is pretty gnarly after this past weekend. What’s the easiest way to clean my glass, and how often should I do it? Dirty Pete Dear Pete: There are tons of products you can buy at head shops these days, but why spend $5 on a tiny…

A bill that would have used $10 million in medical marijuana patient registration fees for drug-treatment programs has been gutted for the second year in a row. The Representative Beth McCann-sponsored House Bill 1238, would have transferred $10 million over the next four years from the medical marijuana program cash…