Remember when you’d go over to your friendly neighborhood pot dealer’s house and he would only have one strain of herb to offer you — but, hey, it was weed, so it didn’t really matter? Me, neither. It’s been way too long since that’s been the case, considering the hundreds…
Dear Stoner: If I have a half-ounce of raw herb, how many milligrams of THC edibles can I also have before I am technically over the one-ounce recreational limit?Frank the Tank Dear Frank: This is the type of ninth-grade math question we wish our teacher had asked us back in…
The family of a seizure-stricken little girl who became the face of medical marijuana in New Jersey has moved to Colorado after that state’s MMJ program completely failed them, the parents say. Meghan and Brian Wilson maintain that they aren’t angry with New Jersey officials. However, they felt they needed…
Could marijuana have played a role in fixing one of the most important American boxing matches in history? Probably not, but we’ve uncovered at least one harebrained scheme reported in a Colorado newspaper in1889 that says it could be plausible. As far as fighters go, John Lawrence Sullivan was one…
Alive Herbal Medicine seems out of place. Not because it’s situated in the small Sunnyside neighborhood next to a residential area, or because the corrugated tin barn of a building looks like it belongs on a farm and not off a busy interstate in the middle of Denver. What feels…
Dear Stoner: What’s up with this German study claiming that two people have died from marijuana? What’s the call here?Def J. Dear Def J.: That study is based on some pretty circumstantial evidence: Researchers cite a couple of reports about two men in their twenties whose blood pressure increased slightly…
Even though Colorado received more than 40,000 new medical marijuana patient applications in 2013, the total number of active patients on the state’s registry stayed about the same as in 2012, when voters went beyond MMJ to let adults 21 and over to use and possess small amounts of cannabis…
With a headline like “To Farm Insanity Plant,” we were hoping to find a grow guide of sorts from 1909. But alas, that wasn’t the case. Instead, this article from the March 5, 1909 Yampa Leader was just more of the usual anti-marijuana propaganda connecting cannabis with the feared brown-skinned…
Two years ago, when we first stopped by Chronorado Medical in Denver, we left unimpressed but hopeful after discovering the White Urkle we brought home was infested with bugs. It was a shame, because otherwise, the buds were plump, ripe with THC goodness and stank to high heaven with light…
Dear Stoner: I was wondering about RVIA licenses for vehicles and motor homes — whether people can use marijuana in the enclosed area of those vehicles when they’re not in use. I know there are some quasi-public ones around, but I’m more interested in private use and whether I can…
Millions of dollars in tax revenue are now pouring into Colorado’s coffers due to recreational marijuana sales. And that’s not to mention the personal-liberties victory that came when limited amounts of cannabis was legalized for personal adult use and consumption. Yet Governor John Hickenlooper wouldn’t suggest that other states change…
Editor’s note: We couldn’t wait for 4:20 to publish our post about it always being 4:20 at Denver’s Union Station. But we didn’t want to harsh your buzz at 4:20 today — so here’s a classic post from 2012. In doing research for our feature on the history of cannabis…
The other week, I was dropping off my pop at the Oxford Hotel downtown around 2 p.m. when I noticed that the clock was wrong at Union Station. Or, better, the clock was right on at Union Station. Yup. 4:20. At 2 p.m. in the afternoon. I’m not downtown much…
Eight years ago, seven strangers were picked to live in a converted meat-market bar in Lower Downtown and have their lives videotaped — and they found out what happens when people stop being polite and start being really, really bad at acting like they aren’t in a reality-TV show. I’m…
Dear Stoner: I’m watching this dreadlocked skier from Norway right now and wondering if Olympic athletes can smoke pot.Reggie Ross Dear Reggie: The Olympics have a notoriously drug-free stance regarding competition, especially when it comes to performance-enhancing drugs. For years, that also included a pretty hard-line stance on cannabis, and…
A medical marijuana dispensary in the Denver area doesn’t have any more impact on its neighborhood than does a coffee shop or a drugstore, according to a recent study released by the University of Colorado Denver. Not only that, but residents don’t perceive a dispensary as an undesirable use of…
Mile High Medical Cannabis isn’t the first shop I’ve visited with some major issues to their marijuana. But it just might be the one shop I’ve come across that was most welcoming of that bad news. I stopped by Mile High Medical a few weeks ago, back before the Broncos…
While actual marijuana buds probably weren’t anything new to most non-medical cannabis consumers when the sale of recreational pot became legal on January 1, the huge variety of edible forms must have been an eye-opener for many longtime stoners accustomed to only the occasional batch of pot brownies. You can…
Editor’s note: William Breathes is on paternity leave. His 4:20 p.m. Thursday dispensary reviews will return soon. In the meantime, here’s one of his greatest hits: the top five questions Facebook and Twitter pals asked after being featured in a 2010 CNN profile on view below. The calls and texts…
Dear Stoner: Is there any truth to the Internet rumor that some strains that contain high levels of THC-V can actually help with weight loss by reducing appetite? If so, do you know of anyone who needs a subject for a long-term scientific study?Big J Dear Big J: We’ve done…
We haven’t come upon continuing local coverage of old pot events while going through our stash of musty, vintage Colorado news. At least, none as intriguing as the tale of Frank Valdez as told through the local news briefs section from the Steamboat Pilot from 1937 through 1949. Basically, what…
Maybe it’s just me and I’ve visited too many dispensaries in the last five years, but sometimes the names of these shops sound like heavy, stoner-rock bands from the ’70s. Like,”‘Did you see the festival lineup for Hemp Fest, man? Kind Love, Nature’s Kiss, Good Chemistry, Standing Akimbo and, dude,…
