Colorado Board of Health

Damien LaGoy, R.I.P.: Medical marijuana patient and activist dies at 53

We've just learned about the death of Damien LaGoy, who became one of the most public advocates for medical marijuana patients like himself. Opponents of medical marijuana tend to characterize MMJ patients as twenty-something slackers who merely want an excuse to get high, but LaGoy contradicted th ... More >>

Marijuana: Jeremy Usher, Navy vet, could go to jail for treating his PTSD with cannabis

After returning from tours in Afghanistan and Iraq ten years ago, Navy veteran Jeremy Usher experienced symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder according to the Greeley Tribune. He subsequently tried treating his condition with alcohol, resulting in multiple DUIs and a probationary sentence. But ... More >>

Reader: To ban dissolvable tobacco Camel Orbs that look like Tic Tacs is nanny state overload

​In a post this week, the Colorado Tobacco Education and Prevention Alliance called for RJ Reynolds to stop Colorado test-marketing of dissolvable tobacco products he believes are being marketing to kids via candy-like packaging -- and the state health board subsequently joined the cause. But ... More >>

Dissolvable tobacco: Advocate criticizes R.J. Reynolds for not ending test marketing

​Yesterday, Bob Doyle, executive director for the Colorado Tobacco Education and Prevention Alliance, touted a resolution calling for the Colorado Board of Health to oppose test-marketing of dissolvable tobacco products by R.J. Reynolds under names like Camel Orbs. The board supported this not ... More >>

Reader: God speaks in favor of marijuana three times on the first page of the Bible

​Our post about a Colorado Board of Health ruling that will likely lead to the rejection of approximately 2,000 medical marijuana doctor recommendations fired up commenters aplenty. But one reader stood out by citing passages from a certain Good Book.

Medical marijuana: Board of Health rejects Cannabis Therapy Institute's petition (PICS)

​Update: Yesterday, Colorado's board of health rejected an emergency petition from the Cannabis Therapy Institute, on view below in an item first published yesterday morning. The reason? The board didn't believe the concerns outlined in the petition constituted an emergency. However, the topic ... More >>

Medical marijuana: $90 license fee too high for indigent patients & everyone else, advocate says

Laura Kriho.​Back in August, medical marijuana advocates protested when Governor Bill Ritter proposed using $9 million in MMJ fees to help plug a budget hole. No doubt this topic will rise again at 9:30 a.m. this morning, when a board of health public hearing will address the question of lower ... More >>

Did medical marijuana smoke out Colorado chief medical officer Ned Calonge?

​Dr. Ned Calonge, who's spent the past eight years serving as Colorado's chief medical officer, will be leaving at the end of 2010 to take the top post at the Colorado Trust, a health foundation. During his tenure, Calonge has tackled health calamities as varied as anthrax scares, water-contam ... More >>

Medical marijuana residency rules: Activist Laura Kriho asks, Where's the emergency?

Laura Kriho.​The first rule-making hearing of the Department of Revenue's Medical Marijuana Licensing Authority, slated for 10 a.m. this morning, has been deemed an emergency. But why it should be categorized as one puzzles the Cannabis Therapy Institute's Laura Kriho, who notes that this term ... More >>

Three years after his murder, memories of Ken Gorman -- Colorado's most vocal pot activist -- have gone up in smoke

Rob Corry's line-by-line shredding of Senator Chris Romer's medical marijuana bill

Rob Corry is doing lines. Lots of lines.​Attorney Rob Corry has become the poster-lawyer for the medical marijuana business in Colorado, both through his legal gambits -- like victory in a dispute over the Colorado Board of Health's language switch involving the definition of a medical marijua ... More >>

2009 Year in Review: When the lows were lower and the highs were really, really high

Wake-Up Call: Tax marks the pot in December tomorrow

​On December 1, the City of Denver will start collecting city sales tax from every medical marijuana dispensary in the city. "Tax revenue agents will be meeting with all dispensaries, giving them the information," says Denver City Attorney David Fine. Not that the city has a list of all the ... More >>

The top ten ways your medical marijuana caregiver can show he really cares

Live blogging the Denver District Court pot hearing

A Flickr photo.​Last Thursday, several of the state's prominent pot lawyers filed a motion to void a recent Colorado Board of Health decision to strike from its rules what it means to be a marijuana caregiver -- a move that upended the burgeoning medical marijuana industry. Starting at 8:30 a. ... More >>

Marijuana lawyers file motion against Board of Health pot hearing

Joel WarnerThe controversial Board of Health hearing​During the emergency Colorado Board of Health hearing Tuesday that struck from state rules what, exactly, it means to be a marijuana caregiver and sent the state's medical marijuana community into turmoil, prominent pot lawyer Rob Corry told ... 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 >>

Sean McAllister on Breckenridge's decriminalization of weed, the Board of Health's medical-marijuana action

The Breckenridge marijuana vote put a smile on Sean McAllister's face.​Sean McAllister experienced a big up and an equally large down yesterday. As the head of Sensible Breckenridge, a marijuana advocacy organization, he was thrilled when residents of the ski town voted overwhelmingly to decri ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Medical marijuana about to take another hit

​The state isn't letting any grass grow under its feet -- and may be looking at prohibiting grass growing in your basement. The Colorado Board of Health has scheduled an Emergency Rulemaking Hearing for 10:30 a.m. today, to discuss -- and possibly eliminate -- its definition of "significant r ... More >>

Sensible Colorado tries to draw a crowd to Board of Health's medical-marijuana hearing

​As Patricia Calhoun points out in this morning's Wake-Up Call, the Colorado Board of Health is holding an "Emergency Rulemaking Hearing" at 10:30 a.m. this morning; it takes place in Building A at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment headquarters, 4300 Cherry Creek Drive S ... More >>

Can't tell the players without the updated medical-marijuana scorecard

Breckenridge may decriminalize marijuana today, but the town is regulating dispensaries.​Although the state of Colorado is currently grappling with medical marijuana, as exemplified by the Colorado Board of Health's "Emergency Rulemaking Hearing" slated for later this morning (expect Sensible ... More >>

Update: The Board of Health meeting on medical-marijuana

Inside the Board of Health meeting.​Update, 3:23 p.m. Joel Warner here, back from the kerfuffle emergency Board of Health hearing. To make a long story short, the board voted 9-0 this morning to strike language stating that a marijuana caregiver has to have "significant responsibility for mana ... More >>

Everything you wanted to know about recent medical-marijuana developments -- but were afraid to ask

"Does 'regulatory whiplash' count as a medical-marijuana ailment?"​State medical-marijuana rules have always been ridiculously vague and confusing, leading to the riotous growth of the local dispensary industry. Last week, the Colorado Court of Appeals weighed in on the matter, and this mornin ... More >>

Ganjapreneurs are cashing in on Colorado's booming medical pot business

The Beauvallon is bitter grounds for Aviano Coffee

The state will need a pot of money to maintain the medical marijuana registry

In light of the recent medical marijuana victory, read about weed

Gotten enough marijuana (news) this week? No? Then you've come to the right place. As reported in the Latest Word's extensive, twelve-hour live blog of Monday's packed Colorado Board of Health medical marijuana hearing, pot dispensaries in Colorado appear to be safe ... for the moment. The health ... More >>

Live blog: The Colorado Health Department's medical marijuana hearing

The Latest Word is at a Colorado Board of Health's hearing, where the board will consider new medical marijuana regulations that some believe will jeopardize the newly booming industry, as Joel Warner reported last week ("Will Monday be judgment day for Colorado's medical marijuana industry?"). We'l ... More >>

Go green: Hitch a ride to Monday's medical marijuana hearing

"Jump in, everyone!"Monday is shaping up to be a pot-tastic day. As Joel Warner reported earlier this week, the Colorado Board of Health will hold a hearing to consider tighter regulations on Colorado's burgeoning medical-marijuana trade. And all sorts of stoners, patients, advocates and stoned pati ... More >>

Will Monday be judgment day for Colorado's medical marijuana industry?

It's hard to understate the explosive rise of Colorado's medical marijuana industry. When Westword took an in-depth look at issue in the February 2009 article "Medical marijuana Has Become a Growth Industry in Colorado," just over 5,000 patients had been approved by the state to use marijuana -- w ... More >>

Boulder pot robbery could add wrinkle to July medical-marijuana hearing

Our February 4 story, "Medical Marijuana Has Become a Growth Industry in Colorado," described how the state's medical pot laws have fueled a booming dispensary industry -- an industry that was starting to look like the Wild West, with robberies and rip-off accusations thanks to lax regulations and ... More >>

From the week of February 19

Medical marijuana has become a growth industry in Colorado