The second free-joint giveaway sponsored by opponents to Proposition AA, the marijuana taxation measure on November’s ballot, took place beginning at 11 a.m. today on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. And according to photographer Brandon Marshall, who snapped the images on view below, it was hardly a mob scene. While he…
As we’ve reported, a protest against marijuana taxation measure Proposition AA is scheduled to take place at 11 a.m. today on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, complete with free joints for attendees. The event, and an invitation for Vice President Joe Biden to participate, has already come under fire from the…
Earlier this month, a group opposed to Proposition AA, the measure to establish tax rates on recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, staged a rally at Civic Center Park during which attendees were given free joints. Now, that same group, No on Proposition AA, is planning a second free-joint event tomorrow…
In researching this week’s feature article about the life and death of cannabis activist Jenny Kush, a lot of people we spoke with emphasized that she was also quite the artist in addition to the long list of other hats she wore — including the host of SexPot Radio. iCannabisRadio…
This dispensary has closed. If there were ever businesses open to the public even though the public clearly didn’t want them to be, they’d have to be the few remaining Blockbuster Video stores that have limped along through the past five or six years. With a selection of ten DVDs…
This week’s feature article about the life and death of cannabis activist Jenny Kush tells the story of a woman who connected with hundreds thousands of people in part through a no-holds-barred weekly radio show covering two of her favorite topics: sex and marijuana. Kush may have been taken away…
Dear Stoner: Are edibles the best way to get high on the downlow? I have a retail job, and when the holiday season arrives, the place turns into a hellish nightmare of customers running me around like a chicken with its butt-feathers on fire. I desperately want to use marijuana…
The Colorado medical marijuana patient registry saw the largest increase in active patient numbers in months this summer, growing by 2,475 patients to 109,292 people from June to July. The Department of Revenue received a total of 3,514 applications during that time period and hasn’t reported any denials. That means…
For months, we’ve been following Denver City Council’s efforts to write and pass rules for the retail marijuana industry. This task was finally accomplished at Monday evening’s council meeting (see what we believe to be the final document below), and a pot-biz spokesman is pleased by the results. But attorney…
Last week, opponents of Proposition AA, the measure to establish tax rates for recreational marijuana, staged a rally at Civic Center Park at which adults 21 and over who attended were given free joints. In the days that followed, board members of Colorado NORML came out against Prop AA, too…
As you may have heard, 21-and-over adults can legally use and possess small amounts of marijuana in Colorado. But plenty of folks, including ones of age, continue to use incense typically marked “not for human consumption” as synthetic marijuana, with as many as 150 illnesses linked to the substance, popularly…
Editor’s note: William Breathes is on assignment — which gives us the perfect excuse to flash back to his very first Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule. By the 1930s, cannabis was considered a growing menace in Denver society. The drug of choice for minorities (mostly Hispanic natives and immigrants who worked…
Earlier this week, Miguel Lopez, organizer of the annual 4/20 rally, expressed his opposition to Measure AA, the taxation proposal for recreational marijuana up for vote in November, by staging a Civic Center rally at which attendees were given free joints. The Colorado chapter of NORML (National Organization for the…
This dispensary has closed. Some medical dispensaries (and soon-to-be recreational dispensaries) are just begging for a change in laws. What kind of change? One that would allow people to hang out and puff herb with other patients. So far, nobody has really stepped up to take that on. If it…
Dear Stoner: I found a few seeds in a bag last winter and planted them in my back yard earlier this spring. I know enough to know I lucked out in getting a female plant, but when exactly do I harvest this thing? I can’t find any definitive answers. Green…
The Colorado Department of Revenue has released its set of rules for the soon-to-be recreational marijuana industry. And there are a lot of them. The document is 144 pages long; see it below. Much of the language in the doc is taken from existing medical marijuana rules in Colorado (which…
When the Obama administration announced that it wouldn’t sue to stop Amendment 64 and other state cannabis laws, anticipation about yesterday’s Senate hearing on marijuana shifted from whether the feds could be forced to make a decision to what they’d say about allowing measures to take effect. As such, the…
Jared Polis, Boulder Democrat and pro-hemp congressman, co-hosted a congressional briefing and press conference in Washington, D.C. today to discuss the future of industrial hemp farming and whether further clarification regarding its legality is needed in light of the Obama administration’s recent announcement that it will not sue to stop…
Earlier today, we told you about an anti-pot-taxation rally to be staged at Civic Center Park. Our Alex Brown checked out the event, bringing back the photos below and lots of colorful information about the gathering. Examples? People started lining up for the no-charge tokes at 8:30 a.m., two-and-a-half hours…
Miguel Lopez, organizer of the annual 4/20 rally at Civic Center Park, has obtained a permit to stage what’s described in a press release as a “‘No on Proposition AA’ Campaign” to fight against a proposed state tax on recreational marijuana — one that could be as high as 30…
We aren’t exactly sure who the clandestine growers in this September 2, 1948 story about marijuana growing in a Routt County canyon were, but hippies and mountain towns go together like organic hummus on vegan bread. Like peanut butter and jelly sourced from local farms. Like marijuana and, well, hippies…
Naming a Denver medical marijuana dispensary “Denver Dispensary” probably seemed like a good idea at the time: any random toker searching search for “Denver dispensary” will see their website first and likely click on it. But the generic name has had the opposite effect for me. I hadn’t heard of…
