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Marijuana: Council's Amendment 64 Committee faces tough questions, has few answers

The first meeting of the Denver City Council's Amendment 64 Committee, held yesterday afternoon, concluded with few answers but a big pile of questions. The most pressing of the latter might also be the most formidable: Can the committee accomplish its goals within a very tight timeline?

Marijuana: Differences among members of council's recreational pot committee, chair says

The first meeting of the Amendment 64 committee of the Denver City Council is scheduled to get underway at 3:30 p.m. today -- and while Councilman Charlie Brown, the panel's chairman, stresses that no votes will take place during the initial session, he expects a disparity of views among the members ... More >>

Marijuana rule-breaking after Amendment 64 not a problem at resorts, says ski industry group

In a post about the first meeting of the Denver City Council's recreational marijuana committee, chairman Charlie Brown shared anecdotes he's heard about public pot smoking at ski areas since Amendment 64. But a spokeswoman for Colorado's ski industry says resorts have had virtually no problems with ... More >>

Denver County Fair and balanced report: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

​ My 45-hour-long art exhibit at the Denver County Fair was filled with fun, but there were some highlights...

LaLa Vazquez's valentine to Denver: Kenny Be's Playing Cupid

Lovely LaLa Vazquez.​ It pains my heart to see strained relationships. Why can't everyone just get along? Since it's the season of love, I've created Kenny Be Valentine's cards, intended to calm the cantankerous and help bring impassioned parties together. Below, LaLa's heartfelt offer of love ... More >>

Marijuana grow houses are a growing controversy at Denver City Council

​In the fall of 2009, Denver City Council rep Charlie Brown realized that the city had to get a handle on the booming medical marijuana dispensary industry -- and even as the Colorado Legislature was just starting to discuss MMJ, Denver was signing off on its ordinance. But now the city needs ... More >>

After the Gabby Giffords shooting, Councilman Charlie Brown declines a TV interview about pit bulls

Charlie Brown Christmas tree needs home -- even though it's not even Halloween yet

Photo by Jay Vollmar​Seen this week near Alameda and Sheridan: a Charlie Brown-style Christmas tree looking for a home -- in October. Anyone have a spare security blanket?

Gawker: Mayor Hickenlooper is no Don Johnson

Things would be different is Sonny was mayor.​Well, we know things have gotten weird when someone is calling our goofy-but-always-diplomatic mayor John Hickenlooper "a killjoy lame-o" while elevating outspoken cowboy-hat-sporting councilman Charlie Brown to the status of the only "sane" person ... More >>

Ten summer camp movies summer campers shouldn't see

If your kids watch Wet Hot American Summer, they'll think their counselors do heroin.​Sending your kid off to summer camp can feel pretty magical to parents -- they get to have some fun, after all, and you don't have to feel guilty about getting some long-overdue personal time. Maybe a short ... More >>

Pot protesters pick the wrong target, Denver officials say

​I was on the phone with a city official late Monday, and could hear the protest outside City Hall, organized by Robert Chase, founder of the Colorado Coalition for Patients and Caregivers, who's asking for a recall of the Denver City Council members who voted for the ordinance regulating medi ... More >>

Medical marijuana debate at Denver city council: Expect a mob scene

Is that your phone ringing, Charlie Brown?​The pot proposal pushed by Denver city councilman Charlie Brown is up for public comment on Monday -- and the Cannabis Therapy Institute, among the most efficient and effective marijuana advocacy organizations in the state, wants to make sure folks w ... More >>

Carol Boigon doesn't hate medical marijuana -- but she does have some issues with it

Carol Boigon outside the Tattered Cover -- where addicts (of coffee) have been known to congregate.​At last night's Denver city council meeting, the member who seemed to have the most problems with a pot proposal that will get the public-hearing treatment next Monday was Carol Boigon. At one p ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Pot proposals boil over in Colorado

​What's growing faster than the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado? The number of proposals to regulate them. But while it now looks like competing concepts will collide at the Colorado Statehouse when it convenes the second week in January, Denver's keeping its steady pace ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Denver's pot pie still half-baked

​Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown has spent the last three months thinking about medical marijuana -- perhaps this city's only real growth industry -- and it showed yesterday, when council's safety committee approved his proposal for regulating dispensaries in Denver. The proposed ordinanc ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Charlie Brown's latest pot dispensary proposal

​Cowboy-hatted Charlie Brown looked right at home in Teddy's, the bar in the north Denver Holiday Inn, where the decor is Western (complete with a Willie Matthews print) and the Broncos game was playing on Sunday. But he marched resolutely past the TV and into the Cannabis Holiday Health Fair ... More >>

From the week of December 3, 2009

Wake-Up Call: Stirring the pot at Denver City Council today

​Unlike Michigan, Colorado doesn't have a Cannabis College -- not yet. But the entire state is getting quite an education in both the efficacy of medical marijuana in soothing certain maladies and the difficulty of imposing new rules on dispensing it. Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown has ... More >>

Live blog: Charlie Brown presents his pot proposal

Charlie Brown is the man with the plan.​This morning, Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown presented his proposed ordinance to regulate the city's medical marijuana dispensaries to the council's Safety Committee. We live blogged the hearing; you'll find Brown's proposal at the bottom of this p ... More >>

Live blog: Denver City Council considers medical-marijuana regulations

Charlie Brown wants to put medical-marijuana businesses on a tighter leash.​Today, Councilman Charlie Brown is presenting his proposal for regulating the city's medical marijuana dispensaries to the Denver City Council's Safety committee. We live blogged the meeting. To read the account in chr ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Charlie Brown hits the mean streets of Los Angeles

​City Council rep Charlie Brown has taken the lead on corralling medical marijuana dispensaries in Denver. And he's taking the task seriously -- so seriously that, last week, he took his cowboy hat and traveled to Los Angeles (using campaign funds, not taxpayer dollars) to check out that city' ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Putting a lid on the pot party

​Welcome to cannabis Colorado. This weekend, at a gathering of publishers from across the country, all the talk was about Colorado and pot -- and they weren't just asking if I was carrying. No, they wanted to know about the booming business in medical-marijuana dispensaries in this state -- a ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: And the medical-marijuana hits keep coming

​There's nothing mellow about medical marijuana in Colorado. In a wacky emergency session yesterday, the Colorado Board of Health tossed out its definition of "caregiver" to comply with a recent Court of Appeals decision, postponing the adoption of any new herbiage verbiage until December 16 ... More >>

City Councilman Chris Nevitt: Tax medical marijuana -- and maybe regulate it like food

Chris Nevitt feels better about the safety of a Starbucks coffee than a marijuana brownie.​Denver councilman Charlie Brown plans to share his ideas for proposed medical-marijuana regulations on November 18 -- and his already-expressed interest in taxing the stuff has been endorsed by fellow co ... More >>

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