This dispensary has closed. As I said a few weeks ago, if you’re going to open your doors to the public, I’m not going to be concerned with how much time you’ve had to iron out the kinks. The bud is grown at that point, and there’s no changing what’s…
Dear Stoner: It’s our first 4/20 in Denver. Give us some tips.Mountain Mark Dear Mark: While the organizers of the two-day 4/20 rally are asking people not to light up at the event in order to comply with the city’s request, the reality is that people have been lighting up…
It’s been three-and-a-half months since the start of recreational cannabis sales in Colorado, but recent stats show that medical marijuana sales still far outpace recreational sales — even with a patient base of fewer than 114,000 people. Retail sales tax collected in the state in February for retail cannabis sales…
We’re pretty sure that this story in the Silverton Standard from January of 1890 was meant to scare people. But as is the case with a lot of these old pieces, they actually do a great job of selling us on the amazing effects of cannabis. Even if they aren’t…
One of the first dudes I ever got stoned with in high school was a super metal-head named Eric who was into Dungeons and Dragons, wizards, warlocks and Tolkein novels. His room at his mom’s house, where we would smoke after school, was a tribute to all of these things,…
Dear Stoner: I’ve always wanted a hemp houseplant. What are the rules and regulations for growing hemp on a small, non-commercial scale? And does that count as one of the six plants that I’m allowed to grow? I realize that if I’m already growing marijuana, I’d need a male hemp…
Have you checked your calendar lately? The annual 4/20 weekend is nearly upon us, and we can already smell the smoke in the air in the Mile High City. Okay, maybe that’s just the smoke from our pot critic’s desk. But that smoke signals an ever-growing list of cannabis-centric events…
We’ve got a followup to a post last November that spotlighted a 1922 Telluride Daily Journal blurb on Martinez Gonzales, who was arrested after Montrose cops found him growing herb in his front yard. Last we had heard, Gonzales was being held in jail until an evaluation on his sanity…
So much has changed at Southwest Alternative Care since 2011 that it might as well be a new dispensary. The shop has moved from its strange loft above a mattress store to a stand-alone warehouse spot just a few miles east and expanded to a second location on Colfax. Plus,…
Dear Stoner: Where can I buy quality seeds in Denver?John A. Dear John: Recreational sales for seeds are slim pickings these days, but you can pick up beans from Reserva Privada Colorado at the Clinic, as well as Rare Dankness seeds at River Rock and Medicine Man. Those two companies…
State lawmakers are working on six bills related to marijuana during this legislative session, not including the proposed budgets for the marijuana regulation divisions of the Department of Revenue and the Department of Public Health, which also have to be approved by the general assembly. Among them are two that…
In the early 1950s, a U.S. senator from Tennessee named Estes Kefauver wanted to make a name for himself. The guy had high aspirations, after all, and fancied himself presidential material. And what better way to do that than to scare the living crap out of the American public with…
My high school didn’t have shop class. The only way we could learn about using power tools was through tech theater classes, in which we were used as slave labor to build sets for the plays. That also included painting faux wood finishes that looked great at twenty feet but…
The Colorado Department of Public Health is looking to limit the number of patients that private medical marijuana caregivers can serve, as well as put a cap on the number of plants an individual may grow. Currently, caregivers can serve more than five patients by applying for a “medical necessity”…
In honor of the Best of Denver, our stoner picked two of his top questions from last year. Have a fresh one? Send it to marijuana@westword.com or call 303-293-2222. Dear Stoner: If a mosquito bites you while you’re smoking a joint, will it get high?Buggin’ Out Dear Buggin’: What a…
Despite the start of recreational sales, there was no drop in active-patient red cards in January. According to statistics released by the Colorado Department of Health and Environment last week, the number of registered medical marijuana patients in the state actually grew by a few dozen people between the end…
The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that Colorado attorneys can advise medical and recreational marijuana shops to follow state laws, even though such laws are in complete contradiction to federal laws that Colorado attorneys all vow to uphold. Back in December, the Colorado Bar Association had released a formal opinion…
Ever wonder what fictional American millionaire playboys did for kicks 100 years ago (aside from Gatsby)? Us neither. But cannabis is a funny thing, and once again our digging has dusted off a gem of marijuana writing from Colorado’s past about American millionaire Paul Lane and his romantic adventures from…
I used to care about waiting a few months to review a new dispensary — but I’ve since changed my mind. If a shop is going to open its doors to the general public, then it shouldn’t matter when I visit. The kinks in the shop might need more time…
Dear Stoner: The hint of warmer weather has me thinking: Can I grow ganja outside in Denver?Sprouts Dear Sprouts: According to Colorado law, your growing must be done in an enclosed, locked space and not conducted “openly or publicly.” That’s a pretty broad definition, and one that hasn’t really been…
High Times will once again be a Mile High on the 4/20 holiday, when the magazine will bring its now-annual Cannabis Cup back to Denver. But do recent shutdowns of other cannabis-friendly events in the city mean that attendees won’t enjoy the same huge clambake that has marked the last…
While we would love to take credit as the first newspaper in Colorado to actually offer advice on growing and consuming marijuana, it turns out that the Aspen Daily Times had us beat by decades, going all the way back to August 11, 1938. Sort of. The little brief is…
