Veronica Carpio, former owner of 420 Highways, a dispensary we reviewed last year was busted Tuesday for an alleged $30,000 marijuana deal intended to send Colorado herb out of state. She also faces charges of using the U.S. Postal service to ship ganja to less green places…

After weeks of everyone deservedly picking on nerdy law student Cochran for being a scrawny weakling ginger that didn’t contribute much of anything to the team (including this medical marijuana critic), he finally snapped like a freckled twig and completely changed the game for Denver dispensary owner Jim Rice and…

A year ago, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment was so backlogged with medical-marijuana license applications that patients had to wait as long as eight months after filing paperwork before they got their red cards. And now, as this bubble of patients rises to the surface to renew…

This dispensary has closed. Though the logo for the Medijuana Center — a Colorado license plate likeness with TMC branded on it — hasn’t changed in the year-plus I’ve been passing by it on my way home from the Westword offices, the management apparently has…

The ambiguously-named Medical Marijuana Workgroup met yesterday, and although the point was to create transparency between state and city officials and the medical marijuana center owners, the results were more akin to a big back-patting session for everyone involved…

Last week, Jim Rice ended up as the hero for his Savaii Tribe after pushing his team to victory in the elimination challenge. This week, though, the role of tribe savior was usurped by his teammate, veteran Ozzy…

Update below: The so-called Denver Medical Marijuana Workgroup meets today for the second time in two months. But despite its name, which has caused some confusion in the medical marijuana community, the group hasn’t been charged with any actual work and isn’t a regulatory committee in any way…

Question: Do you like paying less than retail for medical cannabis and cannabis-related merchandise? Yes? Well, hawdilly! You’re just the person Westword is hoping will sign up for our new Groupon-esque Toke Daily Deal e-mails. If you said “no,” then la-tee-da. It must be nice to be in the 1…

After nearly four months, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (finally) updated its medical marijuana stats page yesterday. And although the latest information is from August, it does hint at a slight decline over the last two months in the number of people holding a red card…

I had some pretty cool neighbors growing up. They lived in this adobe-style house filled with Native American artwork, unironic airbrushed wolf posters and turquoise — lots of turquoise. This stood out in the cookie-cutter suburbia surroundings. But my folks liked them because they were genuinely nice people and would…

Week Six on Survivor came with some tension. Why? Denver dispensary owner Jim Rice orchestrated some huge shakeup moves in the tribe that sent veteran player Ozzy’s girlfriend, Elyse, off to Redemption Island last week…

On October 17, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union announced that it was teaming up to represent employees of the medical marijuana industry in Colorado. Union organizer Mark Belkin said he’d seen overwhelming support for the move, but his enthusiasm now seems to be a bit premature…

After a tireless search and dozens of entries, we here at Mile Highs and Lows have finally found the one lucky local college student who will be cleaning bongs helping out around the office as Westword’s first medical marijuana intern. Allow us to introduce you to Sensi Skywalker…

Last week, medical cannabis testing facility Full Spectrum Labs shut its doors indefinitely, citing a lack of a state license to operate. But that news came as a surprise to Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division spokeswoman Julie Postlethwait, who says the lab could have remained open…

Last month, we reported on a study from the RAND Corp. that showed marijuana clinics in Los Angeles and Colorado actually weren’t causing higher crime rates in surrounding neighborhoods, despite the mistaken perception among many members of the public that they were. But the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office didn’t…

This dispensary has closed. It wasn’t my intent to re-review Golden Alternative Care, or any shop, this week. But I found myself out in the neighborhood after a trip up into the foothills to catch the aspens changing and wanted a joint or two for my ride home. And to…

The Colorado Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division finally began licensing medical marijuana centers around the state this week. And while some activists say the licensing will likely bring more federal attention to Colorado dispensaries, several center owners say they feel more protected now, not less…

Last week on Survivor, we were given a glimpse at a potential power struggle in the Savaii Tribe orchestrated by dispensary owner Jim Rice. This week, his plan was put to the test and our local guy came out on top — for now…

The Reverend Brandon Baker, who’s with the ganja-based Greenfaith Ministry, has a lot of titles. He’s a farmer, a father, an activist, a religious leader — and now a self-professed legal scholar who says he’s found a way to end Colorado’s medical marijuana regulations, which he says violate patient privacy…

Last week, we re-posted this month’s Chronic-le feature story on high-CBD strains around Colorado, with our selections based on Full Spectrum Labs tests. But those might be the last results we get from Full Spectrum for a while. FSL announced last week that it’s shutting down Octobert 14 until the…

Tetrahydrocannabinol, better known as THC, is the most commonly known psychoactive ingredient in cannabis — the ingredient in ganja that gets you high. It also gives you the munchies, can create undue paranoia from time to time, and makes Cheech and Chong movies marginally funny. In short: THC is why…