Last November, Fort Collins voters elected to shut down all medical marijuana dispensaries within city limits, with the MMCs closing by midnight on Valentine’s Day. Now, a group of pro-dispensary supporters is hoping voters will bring the industry back to the northern Colorado town…

While some of us were at home lighting up last night, firefighters across the state were working to extinguish some of the most frightening blazes in the state’s history. To help support firefighters on the front lines near Fort Collins, Colorado Springs and Boulder, several medical marijuana businesses have come…

I’ve been shopping at High Level Health for some time now, though not really as a regular place — mostly just to rush in and grab an eighth to grind down into joint food when I was running low. I last visited in the fall of 2011, before the shop…

Last week, we told you about 2011 documents uncovered by activist Corey Donahue that outlined using the proposed medical marijuana patient registry database to cross-check federal firearm databases. The reason: MMJ patients are not legally allowed to own guns. Now, however, a state official says such a search won’t happen…

Two competing medical marijuana advertising bans have been proposed by Denver City Council members, and their concepts are very different in scope. The council’s Debbie Ortega and Christopher Herndon have until August to find a compromise before their colleagues take a vote…

It’s not really a consolation, but at least Colorado medical marijuana patients won’t be treated like sex offenders in the proposed computer link between the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and law enforcement crime databases…

This dispensary has closed. Whereas the original Native Roots occupies almost a quarter-floor of a high rise in Denver, its Lakewood location is sandwiched between other stores in a small strip center next to a McDonald’s on Wadsworth. Fitting, as Native Roots is one of a handful of dispensaries not…

The medical marijuana patient registry saw an increase in patients for five straight months through April 2012, bringing the total number of Coloradans with medical marijuana cards to 96,709. According to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the registry is still 32,000 names below its all-time high…

This dispensary has closed. I first heard about Riverside Wellness a few weeks ago, after burglars had broken in and stolen $8 in cash. The staff seemed to take it in stride, showing a sense of humor by pointing out that the money was stolen from a “karma jar” –…

Representatives from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Colorado Bureau of Investigations will meet today to discuss linking the medical marijuana patient registry with law enforcement computers. Not that you can hear what they have to say: A spokesman stresses that it is not a public meeting…

Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? GearBox stash box…

Last month, we told you about a Medical Marijuana Industry Group-proposed citywide ban on outdoor MMJ advertising that was being kicked around by Denver City Council. That idea didn’t materialize, but a bill banning advertising near schools and parks is moving forward…

Every few months for the last four or five years, I throw my back out doing something dumb — like hanging artwork, falling on a catwalk while turned around talking to someone on a snowboard, or mowing my lawn. The most recent cause of injury? Dancing at a wedding. What…

The Colorado Bureau of Investigations and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment are tentatively set to meet next week to discuss a computer system that tracks Colorado medical marijuana patients for law enforcement. The Medical Marijuana Technology Project came to light earlier this month when it was mentioned…

Moving from one location to another can be stressful and often means prioritizing what to bring with you and what to leave behind. According to Delaware police, Andre Dismuke didn’t want to leave behind the amazing cannabis we have in Colorado just because he was moving to the First State…

Rumors were flying over the weekend about a raid or some other type of law enforcement action going down at the Silver Lizard, a shop we reviewed last week. We’ve checked with the owners, who assure us there was no raid and the shop is still open for business…

Both Pitkin and Summit County are finally getting around to making laws governing medical marijuana shops. This move comes more than two years after the first medical marijuana centers opened in the counties…

This dispensary has closed. Originally in Five Points on Welton Street, the Silver Lizard preemptively moved to its current location last January because of its proximity to a school. Though the move undid all the staff’s work on Welton, it seems to have worked out for the best, and the…

Dispensaries that were operating in towns that have enacted local bans have had the option of moving within their existing city limits or to a new municipality that allows medical marijuana businesses, as dispensaries in Fort Collins have done. But centers that shut their doors after receiving letters from the…

Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? Aqua Lab Technologies Mini Showerhead Vapor Tube…

With about 55 percent of more than 93,000 medical marijuana patients with a red card designating someone to grow for them, finding a caregiver clearly isn’t that hard of a task in Colorado. But how do people who aren’t part of the cannabis community or simply don’t have the right…