For the first time in six months, Colorado medical marijuana patient registry numbers have gone up — albeit by a very small amount. After a long delay between updates, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment finally released medical marijuana patient registry stats from December 2011 that show 82,089…

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? The Little Black Book of Marijuana by Steve Elliott…

For the second year in a row, venerable pro-pot publication High Times will be hosting the Denver Medical Cannabis Cup at the Exdo Event Center. This time, the festivities fall on the annual 4/20 stoner holiday weekend…

The rumor going around the medical cannabis community that all seed sales have been suspended is not true. However, state Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division officials admit that they aren’t quite sure how to regulate that part of the industry…

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the still-unsolved murder of Ken Gorman, a man many consider the forefather of Colorado cannabis activism. Gorman, a Denver native, became active in the marijuana community in the early 1990s and quickly became known for his open advertising for marijuana on Westword’s back page…

This dispensary has closed. My visit to Tea Pot Lounge started out normally enough. I walked in to the funky bungalow, checked out some “Down to Blaze” T-shirts, then sauntered back to the receptionist. But after checking my ID and red card, she looked at me oddly and said, “I…

Update:After the announcement that Budding Health medical marijuana centers are unionizing, we reached out to the Cannabis Business Association, whose president, Bob Hoban, had said last year it was premature to mandate labor pacts in such a young industry. We’ve now spoken to Shawn Coleman, interim executive director of the…

For months, Senator Pat Steadman has been talking about the need for a credit union for the medical marijuana industry. But yesterday, a proposed bill that could have paved the way for such an institution died in committee, leaving Steadman to wonder if the state can provide a solution to…

There’s no love for medical marijuana dispensaries in Fort Collins today. Thanks to a voter-approved ban on medical marijuana businesses, all centers and grows have to be shut down by midnight tonight…

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? The Omicron personal vaporizer…

As most of the rest of Denver was preparing for the big blizzard last week by stocking up on groceries at the supermarket, I went out for more important errands and found myself at B*GOODs with a few other like-minded individuals preparing for a stoney snow day…

Tim Wilson, a 25-year-old Colorado man arrested last year after Japanese authorities say he conspired to have marijuana candies sent to the weed-intolerant island nation will finally be coming home, according to 9News. The station quotes Wilson’s family as saying he received a “suspended sentence” and should be back on…

Over the last four years, drug violations at Colorado K-12 schools have increased by roughly 45 percent. And according to a report shared by Education News Colorado about the issue, the rise can be squarely attributed to medical marijuana dispensaries…

Timberline Herbal Clinic isn’t anything fancy, nor does it pretend to be. It’s a working-class shop in a working-class part of town north of I-70 on Colorado Boulevard, where hardworking guys at nearby tire yards and truck-repair shops stop in on their lunch break to pick up edibles for after-work…

By 7 p.m. on Valentine’s Day, all medical marijuana centers in Fort Collins must close their doors thanks to a voter-approved ban passed last November. But there may be hope for a renewed romance between the city and dispensaries, as a handful of centers have filed a last-minute lawsuit to…

For some MMJ patients, medicating with others is a chance to hang out and talk about what ails them with people going through similar problems. For others, it’s a way to explore new strains they might not have tried on their own. But while this kind of socializing/sharing among patients…

The general idea behind Sean’s 1000 Watt hash bags is nothing new. There’s at least a half-dozen companies making similar icewater extraction bags and filter products right now. But for the Denver-based company, the all-mesh design is a major improvement over its first-generation bags…

For the fifth month in a row, thousands of patients have dropped off the Colorado medical marijuana registry. From October to November 2011, the registry lost more than 8,000 patients, according to statistics released yesterday by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment…

Although they snagged their renovated, turn-of-the-century storefront on Larimer Street during the Great Dispensary Rush of 2009 at close to the last minute, the owners of Botanico Care say that over the past two years, they’ve grown to love the RiNO arts district. And the neighborhood is full of patients…

A handful of medical marijuana centers in unincorporated Pitkin County are sitting in legal limbo, waiting on county authorities to move forward with regulations that the state says are necessary for the shops to stay in business…

This dispensary has closed. For such a big shop, Heartland Pharmacy’s exterior has a low-key vibe. Because it’s partially obscured by large trees out front, I drove past it twice before its green-cross sign caught my eye — and I wasn’t even medicated…