Denver City Council has marijuana on the brain, though sadly not in the way we would like to see. Council spent most of yesterday dealing with marijuana issues, starting with a three-hour committee meeting focused largely on zoning and ending with a lengthy council meeting spent debating marijuana tax proposals…
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has been illegally sharing confidential patient information through an online database, and the only way to prevent more breaches is to shut it down immediately. That’s the contention of activists organizing a protest at tomorrow’s state Board of Health meeting — and…
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie isn’t the most progressive official when it comes to marijuana policy — and as we’ve noted, he’s previously cited Colorado as a negative example of state pot laws. Now, however, Christie has come out in favor of allowing sick kids access to medical marijuana. But…
The rulemaking surrounding Amendment 64 is in full swing at the state level. The Department of Revenue has released a set of draft rule changes and clarifications for a huge chunk of medical marijuana law, as well as draft regs regarding the recreational cannabis industry. The 100-plus page document is…
Egyptians? Yeah, they smoke the herb. Same with Persians, Turks, English, Austrians, French and Italians. But especially Egyptians. They love their hash. Oh, and as for Greeks? They don’t smoke it at all. At least, that was the case in 1908 according to the then-Greek consulate Edward I. Nathan in…
All right now. Won’t you listen? Or read, as the case may be? Black Sabbath may be one of my earliest musical obsessions — something that had a lot to do with the theatrics of Ozzy Osbourne and his slaying guitarists. The most memorable to me is Tony Iommi. Specifically,…
Dear Stoner: I just moved to Colorado, and I want to learn about the different types of weed. But looking in the back of Westword can be a little overwhelming. What do you think is a good starting point for finding the info? E3K Dear E3K: We’ve been over this…
The monthly harvest of medical marijuana patient data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is dried, cured and ready for consumption. For the first time in three months, the Colorado Medical Marijuana Registry saw an increase in patients with current and active red cards. At the end…
Medical cannabis has been on the fast-track to mainstream acceptance over the last few years, and more and more high-profile organizations, including the MS Foundation, are aligning themselves with cannabis groups promoting the safe and beneficial plant. Add to that list Boulder’s BStrong foundation, which raises money for cancer research…
The Marijuana Policy Project has released its list of the country’s eight worst state legislators — officials who espoused what MPP communications director Mason Tvert calls “outrageous anti-marijuana” policies. Given that Tvert, one of the main proponents of Amendment 64, is based here, it’s not surprise that a Colorado politician…
Earlier this month, the White House announced hardline drug czar Gil Kerlikowske’s nomination as the new U.S. Commissioner of Customs — a move that caused some observers to wonder if the Obama administration was finally laying the groundwork for a more progressive approach to state marijuana laws like those in…
The Denver City Council has been toiling for months on new retail marijuana regulations — and the members’ work is far from over. Today at 3 p.m., the Amendment 64 committee will meet at the City & County Building, Room 391, to discuss retail marijuana licensing ordinance issues, with specific…
Today brings yet another military-related pot article to our Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule archive. This time, it’s from the Aspen Democrat-Times circa December 1916. The tale is about Mexican militia men storming the border with the demon plant and getting our soldiers hooked on drugs. Gasp!…
At 6 p.m. Mountain Time on August 11, CNN will broadcast WEED, a documentary hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Previously a medical marijuana doubter, Gupta has done a 180, as witnessed by his just-published essay “Why I changed my mind on weed” — and in it, he mentions Charlotte Figi,…
It has been more than three years since we were last at Lotus Medical, in the Elephant Corral building on the western edge of downtown Denver. But unlike a lot of shops that have either changed hands or simply changed decor over the past few years, it seems that Lotus…
Dear Stoner: I saw that Uruguay is legalizing marijuana. What is going on down there? When should I start booking my airline tickets and hotel reservations? Tea Traveler Dear Traveler: Uruguay is basically pulling a Colorado, with the legalización of limited amounts of cannabis for adults and regulating sales through…
Gil Kerlikowske has been nominated by the Obama administration to become the new U.S. Commissioner of Customs — meaning that he’ll be giving up his job as the nation’s drug czar. This development will likely lead to an even longer delay in the federal government announcing its approach to marijuana…
Back in May, marijuana attorney Brian Vicente, who co-authored Colorado’s Amendment 64, expressed supreme confidence that state voters would approve taxes on recreational pot sales in the 30 percent range this November. But a lot has changed since then, including dozens of recreational cannabis-sales bans in communities such as Colorado…
This week’s article isn’t so much damning cannabis (or Indian hemp as it’s called in the piece). No, cannabis’ reputation as a sinful vice seems to have been already established at this point. Instead, a doctor loosely links cannabis with alcohol to make the demon of booze seem even worse…
Last year, the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area released a study about the dangers of home marijuana grows shortly before the vote on Amendment 64. Now, as talks about implementing A64 continue, the RMHIDTA is weighing in with a new analysis of weed in Colorado — one that…
People’s Choice Wellness Center has a small waiting room up front with an ATM, but I didn’t get any time to check it out — and it’s not like it matters much anyway. According to my budtender, the shop isn’t going to be sticking around this location much longer. So,…
The Colorado-made hemp flag that flew over the Capitol in Washington on the Fourth of July has made its way back to the Centennial State. And today — which is known as Colorado Day, in commemoration of the day on which the state officially joined the union in 1876 –…
