Yesterday we told you about HB 1114, the THC DUI bill, which is headed to the floor of the House, where it could come up for approval as early as this week before being sent off to the Senate. While that and the pending legislation surrounding Amendment 64 are hot…

Though cannabis paranoia was alive and well years before this 1921 article was written, marijuana use was still dubbed a “new menace” facing people living along the Mexican border. According to this report, found in the Telluride Daily Journal, pot was thought to be a menace as great as opium…

Wellness Center of Denver is probably the closest dispensary I’ve found to the dispensary-less wasteland that is Aurora. Due to their proximity to A-Town, the folks there really didn’t need to do much more than set up a cash register and fill some jars with warehouse buds. Instead, they’ve opted…

Dear Stoner: I went to my friend’s house who is growing now and asked to see his plants. He said they were “sleeping,” and I wasn’t allowed in the room. Has he just smoked so much that he thinks his plants sleep? Non Toker Dear NT: Marijuana relies on the…

The active patient numbers for Colorado’s medical marijuana community crept slightly higher in January, to 108,656 people, but any significant growth was offset by a pattern of people dropping off the registry each month. Although 2,911 new-patient applications were turned in between December 2012 and this past January, the number…

I’ve been thinking for the past few weeks that I would take up golf this spring. I don’t know why I suddenly like the idea of paying someone so I can walk around a field for hours going from cup to cup, but given the enjoyable outdoor temperatures recently, I…

Dear Stoner: I’ve never tried marijuana, but lately my pot-smoking brother-in-law has been hanging out at our house with his stash, and I’ve been thinking of taking a toke or two with him. Any pointers for my first time? Newby Nate Dear Nate: While I’m sure your brother-in-law would love…

A Colorado House bill that would create a marijuana responsible-vendor program in the state moved through a second Senate reading Monday without any amendments, paving the way to final approval on a third reading. If passed — which seems likely at this point — HB 1061 would allow the state…

The 4/20 weekend this year is shaping up to be a massive, city-wide event. Not only is the traditional 4/20 political rally again taking at Denver’s Civic Center Park, but the crew from High Times has claimed the Mile High as their city of choice for the first-ever Cannabis Cup…

LivWell is one of the larger Colorado dispensary chains, with seven affiliated dispensaries scattered from Colorado Springs all the way up to Boulder, including PostModern Health and Denver Patients Group here in Denver. The Broadway shop I visited is combined with the old Broadway Wellness that moved from its location…

Dear Stoner: What is up with 4/20? Why is that like the St. Paddy’s Day for potheads? Nada Mota Dear Nada: The most plausible explanation comes from Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grim. A story he wrote in 2009 describes how five kids at San Rafael High School in the early…

Colorado legislators have formed a body to help craft legislation based on recommendations of the governor-appointed Amendment 64 task force, which wrapped up February 28 and released its findings this week. The Joint Select Committee on the Implementation of the Amendment 64 Task Force Recommendations (no, not that kind of…

I was doing some cleanup and recycling dozens of green and blue plastic medicine jars containers laying around my house when it hit me: I’ve been through a lot of different herb in the last three years. Though we didn’t run bud pictures in the first few months of our…

Kindman has rebranded as the Grass Station. Kindman is down the street from the Regency dorms, which for some reason I will always remember as the crack-palace hotel it was before it was converted to student housing a few years ago. With the hotel’s 180-degree turnaround, the area doesn’t seem…

Dear Stoner: My wife was telling me that she heard on TV that smoking pot can cause strokes in older folks. I’m 63 and just a little concerned. Any truth to this rumor? Roberto Reefer Roller Dear RRR: Back in February, a New Zealand scientist said he had found a…

As we reported earlier today, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder didn’t choose his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee to share the Justice Department response to marijuana laws in Colorado that contradict federal policy. The measures contradict international treaties, too, as a new report from an agency affiliated with the…

Patients Choice is one of Denver’s oldest and longest-running dispensaries. Opened in March 2009, the shop hasn’t moved from its end-cap spot in a little brick-faced strip center just south of Evans on South Broadway, putting it near the southern boundary of the Green Mile along with Colorado Alternative Medicine…

Dear Stoner: Is there a mechanism — like a process or a form — to remove one’s name from the registry once the red card has expired?  I’ve asked quite a few people, including a local marijuana attorney’s office, and nobody seems to be able to give me a straight…

Elite cannabis genetics aren’t shared with just anyone who asks for them. Growers pride themselves on holding certain rare strains close — and dispensaries have been known to hoard them. For these reasons, you don’t often see anyone freely distributing clones of hard-to-find strains. So it’s surprising (and refreshing) to…

The owner of a once pot-friendly coffee shop in Lafayette is suing the city over a ban that she says specifically targeted her legal operation. Veronica Carpio, owner of The Front Tea and Arts, had been allowing adults over 21 to vaporize cannabis on the premises during the evening since…

Root Organic and Boulder Wellness are situated directly next to each other in the back of a small strip center just east of central Boulder on Arapahoe Road. I hadn’t realized that until I parked and got out of my car, doing a double take and wondering if I was…