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2012 Stories by William Breathes

• Medical marijuana: Park County plan makes home grows open to warrantless inspection

  published Mar 01, 2012

  Earlier this month, Park County commissioners proposed an ordinance that would put onerous restrictions on home medical marijuana grows. In addition, county officials would be granted unfettered acce... More >>

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  Video: William Breathes invites you to light up at ski area smoke shack

  published Feb 29, 2012

  This week's Westword cover story, "Secret Stashes," explores the phenomenon of on-mountain shacks, shanties and huts commonly called smoke shacks by the skiers and riders who use them as a private pla... More >>

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  Dispensary owner whose shop closed at feds' order: "Screw this f*cking city"

  published Feb 28, 2012

  Yesterday, U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Jeff Dorschner implied that the 23 dispensaries issued shut-down letters had stopped doing business at their previous locations, within 1,000 feet from scho... More >>

• On Aspen Mountain, visiting memorial shrines is a tradition

  published March 1, 2012

  Elvis lives in Aspen. Sometime after the King died, an unknown skier tacked an "Elvis Presley Boulevard" sign to the trunk of a pine tree in a... More >>

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  Ski resort "smoke shacks" have the bowls that really count

  published March 1, 2012

  Three minutes into the seven-minute ride on the Super Gauge Express chairlift at Winter Park, one of my guides turns, pulls down... More >>

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  Joshua Allen's Keystone death adds another fatality to lethal ski season

  published Feb 28, 2012

  Update: Sadly, the number of ski deaths in Colorado this season has grown again. On Sunday, 24-year-old Joshua Allen of Tampa, Florida, was found in the trees of the Elk Run underneath the Outback lif... More >>

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  Stoner MacGyver marijuana product review: Kanga Can

  published Feb 24, 2012

  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 latestr Ka... More >>

• Medical marijuana registry snafu makes private records public

  published Feb 24, 2012

  The private information of as many as two dozen medical marijuana patients was improperly handled, according to 7News. The John Ferrugia report claims that "sensitive information in the medical mariju... More >>

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  Medical marijuana dispensary review: Northern Lights Natural RX

  published Feb 23, 2012

  My first real experience with cannabis genetics involved smuggled Northern Lights seeds from the Picasso coffee shop in Amsterdam. Though I was just a kid and what I grew wasn't anything to brag abou... More >>

• Hemp study bill could open doors for Colorado industrial hemp production

  published Feb 23, 2012

  Representative Wes McKinley wants to save the earth with hemp, and not in some philosophical, hippie-dippy way either. Through a bill he has introduced this session that would study how hemp plants cl... More >>

• Marijuana advocates prepare to fight THC driving bill

  published Feb 23, 2012

  Senator Steve King's proposed THC driving bill, which would set an intoxication standard of five nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood for medical marijuana patients and a zero-tolerance level for ... More >>

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  American Weed chronicles Colorado MMJ on National Geographic Channel

  published Feb 22, 2012

  The Colorado medical and recreational cannabis communities are put under the lens of reality television tonight. Tonight, National Geographic Channel will air the first episode American Weed, the lat... More >>

• Medical marijuana registry numbers see small increase at end of 2011

  published Feb 22, 2012

  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 Publ... More >>

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  Stoner MacGyver product review: The Little Black Book of Marijuana

  published Feb 21, 2012

  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 latestr Th... More >>

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  High Times Medical Cannabis Cup returning to Denver

  published Feb 20, 2012

  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 sto... More >>

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  Medical marijuana: Seed sales "gray area" with the state

  published Feb 20, 2012

  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 ... More >>

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  Marijuana activist Ken Gorman remembered on fifth anniversary of his murder

  published Feb 17, 2012

  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... More >>

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  Medical marijuana dispensary review: Tea Pot Lounge in Denver

  published Feb 16, 2012

  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 ... More >>

• Cannabis Business Association thinks MMJ industry too young to unionize

  published Feb 16, 2012

  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 p... More >>

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  Medical marijuana banking bill dies in Senate committee

  published Feb 15, 2012

  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 institu... More >>

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  Medical marijuana ban: All Fort Collins dispensaries must close by midnight

  published Feb 14, 2012

  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... More >>

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  Stoner MacGyver marijuana product review: Omicron personal vaporizer

  published Feb 10, 2012

  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 latestr T... More >>

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  Second skier death this week brings season total to eleven: On track for a recordr

  published Feb 10, 2012

  Update: For the second time in less than a week, a skier has been killed while schussing the slopes at Keystone. The death brings the total skier deaths this year in Colorado to eleven, just six shy ... More >>

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  Medical marijuana dispensary review: B*GOODs in Denver

  published Feb 09, 2012

  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 ... More >>

• Marijuana: Tim Wilson, jailed in Japan for Cheeba Chews, reportedly to be released

  published Feb 09, 2012

  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, a... More >>