In its first announcement about the seizure of more than 3,000 marijuana plants from a plot in Pike National Forest, an ultra-popular place for illegal grows (more on that later), the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office estimated that the weed was worth $900,000. However, that was later altered to $9 million…
This dispensary has been renamed Sacred Seed. The green and white paint job of The Wellness Center stands out along a drab of East Evans like a bowl of dank in a sea of schwag. But it isn’t until you park that the actual size of the building comes into…
The photo seen here isn’t a screen capture from the last scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. No, these boxes contain medical marijuana business applications that have been gathering dust up until now. And I was invited along to watch the first of them get brushed off…
Yesterday, the Drug Policy Task Force met to consider THC driving limits. The DUID-marijuana working group studying the subject couldn’t agree on a proposal last week, and Task Force member Senator Pat Steadman thinks its inability to do so may prevent THC-driving legislation from being blessed by the state Commission…
The owners of a Highland day-care center, who objected in June to The Clinic, a medical marijuana center, moving into the neighborhood, sold their business and building to the MMC earlier this month, allowing the pot shop to finally open their doors last Saturday after a two-month delay…
Boulder may have a reputation as the Weed Capitol of the United States, but the city’s medical marijuana center licensing requirements are arguably tougher than Denver’s. And they could get even more stringent if city council passes an MMJ advertising proposal it’ll mull over tonight…
Earlier this week, the DUID-marijuana working group formed under the auspices of the state Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice (CCJJ) decided not to recommend specific THC driving limits, as a bill tabled during the last legislative session attempted to do. Below, the Medical Marijuana Industry Group’s Michael Elliott, a…
Denver medical marijuana dispensary owner Jim Rice knew there was no way CBS producers could ignore his taped application for their reality TV show Survivor. “I had, like, twenty pounds of pot surrounding me,” he explains. “You know they don’t see that every day.”…
Groundswell’s sign has the usual green, leaf-like images on it, but it looked like an art gallery the first time I drove past. Confused, I circled around and parked in a 7-Eleven parking lot to get a better look at the place, and before I knew it, I was inside…
“Infighting Trips Up Supporters’ Legalization Bid,” a story on the front page of today’s Denver Post, missed the mark for Mason Tvert, among the most prominent proponents of the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2012, and not just because much of the information in it had already been widely…
The DUID-marijuana working group, formed under the auspices of the state’s Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, met yesterday afternoon to consider recommendations about setting THC driving standard. After about three hours of hashing out a lot about hash, members eventually decided not to back a specific blood limit…
Dr. Eric Hatch, the man behind Hatch Wellness Center in Highlands Ranch, is a chiropractor by trade. But a Douglas County court case in which he’s involved could challenge the right of municipalities to ban medical marijuana dispensaries. How? His attorney, Andrew Reid, explains…
Medical marijuana center applications with the city of Denver are sitting in storage — and in limbo. Furthermore, the director of the office charged with processing them isn’t sure when they’ll even get to the first one…
For months, Colorado Springs State Bank has been working with medical marijuana centers shunned by most lenders, because pot is illegal according to the same federal government regulating them. But that will end next month, and attorney Jessica Peck feels the decision is “much more important than, ‘We can’t have…
In May, Longmont moved toward prohibiting the town’s dispensaries — but the ban’s July 1 implementation was delayed. Now, the shutdown order’s in place, and while an appeal is still possible, Michael W. Gross, an attorney representing several centers, concedes that courts have not been eager to overrule such actions…
This dispensary has closed. I walked past The Clone Store twice before I finally saw its sign on the door out front. Granted, I was stoned, but the shop wasn’t easy to find — especially compared to its highly visible next-door-neighbor dispensary, Alternative Medicine Capitol Hill…
Update: Yesterday, we told you about the last-minute cancellation of the DUID-marijuana working group looking into the issue of THC driving limits. Now, Cannabis Therapy Institute’s Laura Kriho has assembled a video showing her and other activists learning the plug was pulled over open-meetings-law concerns, and not, as initially claimed,…
Like a lot of racers, NASCAR driver Ronnie Hults has wrecked a car or two. It’s part of the profession, and he knows it firsthand, telling 9News last night that his body has paid the price for high-speed collisions — notably his lower back and hips. Some nights, he feels…
Update below: A bill to set THC driving limits was put on hold in lieu of more study — and more study is indeed taking place under the auspices of the state Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice (CCJJ). At 1 p.m. today, the so-called DUID-marijuana working group is meeting,…
Jason Beinor is a legal medical marijuana patient. But that didn’t prevent his firing as a street sweeper on the 16th Street Mall after registering a positive in a random blood test — and neither did it convince the Colorado Court of Appeals that he deserved unemployment benefits following his…
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? Enjoy Jars…
Last month, Concerned Fort Collins Citizens petitioned the city council to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in the community, which up until now has been among the state’s most progressive regarding MMJ. Now, the issue is headed for a vote on November 1 — and center owner Steve Ackerman concedes that…
