Hey Stoner: Why does organically grown MJ cost the same as the chemy stuff? Why do buds that take longer (like 112 days) to grow, cost the same as a strain that only takes 50 days? Why does a strain that produces a small harvest cost the same as a…
The Colorado Medical Marijuana Patient Registry continued its slow but steady climb in March according to statistics released by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. As of March 31, there were 115,208 active red cards in the state — up 1,767 people from the month before…
Aspen might be a small town, but the battle for news readership has always been a fierce one — though the insults have probably toned down (in print, at least) since 1897, when this screed from the editors of the Aspen Tribune ran bashing the editors and, more directly, the…
Dear Stoner: I’m flying from one Colorado city to another. Is it legal to carry marijuana on me?Durango Unchained Dear Durango: We’re not saying you can — and we’re not saying you can’t. We’ve written in the past about how the Transportation Security Administration doesn’t really have any law-enforcement capabilities…
State medical-marijuana testing labs licensed by the Marijuana Enforcement Division can no longer accept and test private samples dropped off by patients and caregivers. Legally, they’re only allowed to test marijuana from state-licensed marijuana facilities. Officials say the move keeps the state out of the federal government’s cross-hairs by maintaining…
After a week of what seems like endless Reefer Madness stories from the Denver television stations, we thought we’d leave you with some vintage pot hysteria from 1911. Yes, in case reports of wild Mexicans wasn’t enough to scare the hell out of white America, the thought of it killing…
It’s been years since I was last in La Conte’s. Back in 2011, it was one of the few shops offering buds below $40 an eighth, with hash oil selling at $30 a gram. It wasn’t the best bud, but the value was good, and overall the shop got a…
Dear Stoner: Last week you talked about vaporizers and vape pens. What kind do you recommend?Eager Edgar Dear Edgar: It really depends on whether you want a desktop vaporizer or a portable vaporizer, and how much dinero you’re willing to drop. Vapes are like tattoos — good ones aren’t cheap,…
Medical marijuana patients whose physicians have recommended increased plant counts beyond the legally allotted six are on their own in court, since state officials said last week that they will no longer defend the practice…
Update: Both House Bill 1361, which limits hash sales, and House Bill 1366, which further regulates edibles sales, were approved by the state Senate on third reading yesterday and now head to the governor’s desk for signing. For more on what the bills will do, see our previous coverage below…
Here’s an article that actually ran in several papers over the years, though we’ve singled out the version from the September 1890 Aspen Daily Times. Basically, it’s a “correspondence” with an unnamed doctor who lists ten dangerous drugs and the fates that befall the users of each. The drugs, in…
In the year or so since photos of what looks to be a clean, well-lit and well-stocked Flavored Essentials were posted on the dispensary’s Facebook page, the shop doesn’t appear to have done much upkeep. Lights were out all over the place, and the only illumination came from the few…
Dear Stoner: If the three flowering plants (and the three soon-to-be flowering plants) I have growing as a legal red-card holder yield a very conservative ounce per, in a few months I’ll have three to six oh-zees, and the legal limit is two ounces. How do you handle a stock…
Earlier this month, lawmakers in the Colorado House approved a bill that would limit the amount of hash and other cannabis concentrates that retail marijuana stores can sell to both in-state and out-of-state customers…
This week’s Time Capsule takes us back to 1939 in Steamboat Springs, with an update on the Colorado chapter of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC). What’s the GFWC, you ask? The organization has been around since the 1890s and was a powerful force at one time, notably working…
While recreational marijuana sales still offer the thrill of buying pot legally for those not accustomed to it, a trip to the medical marijuana dispensary for longtime MMJ patients tends to be about as mundane and normal as a trip to the grocery store or cashing a check. Which actually…
Dear Stoner: What is the cheapest place to get a medical marijuana recommendation? I’ve got all my paperwork, and I’m disabled.Malcolm Dear Malcolm: This is one of the most-asked questions on our Westword potline, and the answer is: I don’t know, because I see the same doc I’ve been seeing…
Nebraska police officers are increasingly frustrated with Colorado for what they say is an increase in pot trafficking in their state that they tie directly to the legalization of cannabis across their state’s western border. This week, the Omaha World-Herald profiled several cops and state troopers who say they feel…
“I remember when this was, like, a hundred white kids out here smoking weed under the trees here on 4/20 protesting the government. Now look at this. We’re waiting in line for twenty minutes just to get patted down by security just to get in the park. This is awesome,…
Four years into High Times throwing the Cannabis Cup in Denver, and it finally feels like the event has hit its full, madhouse-crazy stride — thanks in large part to a venue change from the cramped, maze-like confines of Exdo to the wide-open, somewhat-dingy-but-perfect-for-throwing-a-wild-party confines of the Denver Mart…
Editor’s note: Our marijuana critic spent the day at both the High Times Cannabis Cup and the 4/20 rally concert at Civic Center Park. We’ll have full coverage of events in the coming days. In the meantime, check out his top ten eleven pipes and products on display out in…
If all of this hysterical talk over the past week about marijuana being a contributing factor in the deaths of two people in Denver seemed familiar to you, dear cannabis historian, it’s because it should be. This isn’t the first time Colorado news outlets have latched onto the myth that…
