As we reported yesterday, the River North-area site of the High Times Cannabis Cup was left trashed after the event throughout Earth Day, irritating neighbors and putting a black mark on the cannabis community. A group of volunteers and a cleaning crew from the Exdo Center, where the event took…
Update below: The High Times Cannabis Cup left a cloud of haze in the air that had all but disappeared by Sunday night, after the event closed. Unfortunately, the trash didn’t dissipate as easily, and by Monday afternoon — Earth Day — hundreds of pounds of junk was still sitting…
Sean Azzariti (who we’ve featured in this space in the past) is a veteran of the Iraq War, medical marijuana patient, an advocate for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress who want to be able to use cannabis to help them cope, and a cannabis enthusiast. Azzariti also happens to be…
High Times Magazine threw arguable the biggest private pot parties in the nation over the weekend, drawing thousands of people over two days to the Exdo Events Center for the mag’s third cannabis contest in as many years. The past two years, only medical marijuana patients were allowed to puff…
This week’s multi-part cover story about the state of the state of marijuana takes a look at Amendment 64 and how legislators will address implementing the legalization of small amounts of cannabis and the shops that will sell it. Our print edition also features a Q&A with Amendment 64 proponent…
It’s not so much that Artisanal Medicinals looks sketchy from the outside. It’s…ummm…okay, the place looks sketchy from the outside. It’s in a forgotten corner of Denver that you probably only visited back in the day if you were buying paint, having a car repaired or spray painting murals at…
This week’s multi-part cover story about the state of the state of marijuana takes a look at Amendment 64 and how legislators will address implementing the legalization of small amounts of cannabis and the shops that will sell it. Our print edition also features a Q&A with Amendment 64 proponent…
Amendment 64 may have legalized recreational marijuana in Colorado, but it also raised many new questions. We created Ask a Stoner to try to provide some answers. Here’s our special 4/20 edition. Dear Stoner: Who is in charge here? What’s going on? Why can’t I buy joints at 7-Eleven yet?…
Though he doesn’t like to admit it, 31-year-old Mason Tvert has changed the way cannabis is viewed in Colorado — and the way Colorado is viewed by the rest of the country. Tvert, a native of Arizona and graduate of the University of Richmond, has been stirring the pot in…
This year’s 4/20 celebration could be the largest cannabis event in the history of the state — which is fitting, since Colorado made history by legalizing marijuana last year. Thousands are expected to show up for the annual rally in Civic Center Park, which will go for two days this…
Dear Stoner: Saw you on CNN and in Rolling Stone. You’ve been getting around the national media lately, but it seems like the same questions over and over. What are you the most sick of being asked? News Junkie Dear NJ: While it’s fun doing these interviews with other news…
The current incarnation of Colorado House Bill 1114, the THC driving bill gained House approval earlier this month and is headed for the Senate Judiciary Committee next Monday, April 22, after the 4/20 weekend. Given that timing, several activists — including Cannabis University founder Michelle LaMay — are urging 4/20…
This week’s multi-part cover story about the state of the state of marijuana takes a look at Amendment 64 and how legislators will address implementing the legalization of small amounts of cannabis and the shops that will sell it. Our print edition also features a Q&A with Amendment 64 proponent…
We have so much marijuana at Westword, we don’t know what to do with it. Marijuana news, that is. We’re looking to bring on our second-ever pot-specific intern. You don’t need to be a medical marijuana cardholder or anything like that, but some working knowledge of cannabis and the cannabis…
Next week, stoners across the Front Range will converge upon Red Rocks to celebrate 4/20. Two acts will be on hand to help raise a toast roast commemorating the occasion, and you can hardly find a pair of more fitting acts, the hemp-hop icons of Cypress Hill and their SoCal-based…
There’s an unwritten rule with restaurant critiquing that you don’t visit a place in the first month or so after it opens, since the chef needs a few weeks to break in the staff and grow accustomed to the flow of the operation. The same could apply to medical marijuana…
Dear Stoner: Every time I smoke herb, my eyes get redder than Rudolph’s nose. What’s up with that? Is there any way to prevent it? Ro Jo Dear Ro Jo: Ah, the classic telltale sign that someone has just finished a doobie or a nice bong load: red-eye. When I…
How useful is a drug dog trained to go after something that is now legal in two states? Since it’s no longer a crime to carry up to an ounce of marijuana in Colorado, the mere fact that a drug dog has detected marijuana isn’t reason enough to search someone…
This 1884 cannabis-related news nugget is the oldest we’ve managed to dig up from the mines of Colorado’s past so far. Though it was clearly syndicated from another source, the piece, “A TERRIBLE OPIATE,” ran pretty prominently in the Leadville Daily Herald in March of that year, running across one…
Most of the time, I find dispensaries from friend suggestions. This time, it was Google maps — more specifically, a street-view image of a hippie walking out of the dispensary and clearly being surprised to see the Googlemobile. Pan to the northeast a frame, and homie is flipping the camera…
Dear Stoner: I keep seeing all these different “concentrates” in dispensaries, but I’ve yet to try any. I know this sounds dumb, but what is hash, exactly? Ivana Tryit Dear Ivana: What is hash? Awesomeness concentrated. Next time you get a good look at a bud, check out the white-to-amber…
Lawmakers charged with crafting legislation to regulate recreational cannabis use in Colorado have extended their meetings by one week — but they say they should have a final set of proposals for the legislature April 8. Why was the original date of March 29 set aside? A big reason has…
