Talk about overzealousness. The headline alone from this September 1920 front page story in the Aspen Democrat-Times is salacious enough. But the idea of “dope peddlers” hanging outside of VA hospitals “fleecing” vets out of their money for drugs was probably enough to boil the blood of all the good…

Metro Cannabis isn’t really known for much. It is generally seen by patients as a warehouse shop with warehouse-quality buds and nothing to really offer someone who wants true variety and well-grown herb. It’s a low-rent shop set up along a rough stretch of Colfax that relies on walk-in traffic…

Dear Stoner: I’m out of town on business a lot, and whenever I tell people I’m from Colorado, it eventually leads to someone asking me about legal pot sales. I’m all for it and smoke from time to time myself; I just don’t really want to talk about it with…

The Colorado Medical Marijuana Registry program has hit its highest number in nearly three years. According to Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment statistics, there were 116,180 patients on the registry as of April 30, 2014 — raising the possibility that more people are getting medical cards to avoid…

The headline pretty much says it all in this November 24, 1923 article off the front pages of the Aspen Democrat-Times. Despite the fact that he was likely an American, Tony — the man in question — happens to have a Hispanic surname (though, honestly, we can’t figure out exactly…

The name of Medicinal Wellness Center sounded so generic that after I noticed it the other day online, I couldn’t recall if I had been there before, a long time ago, or hadn’t been there at all. Turns out I was right on both fronts, sort of…

Dear Stoner: My husband and I are traveling to Colorado from Illinois and are wondering: If we have medical marijuana licenses from California, would they work in Colorado?Shirley, via the potline Dear Shirley: Unfortunately, no. Your card from California will not work in Colorado, as we don’t offer reciprocation for…

There’s not much going on in the tiny northeast Colorado town of Sedgwick, which has a full-time population of about 150 people, a game preserve nearby and the South Platte River to play in from time to time — when the water’s up. Most people see the town in their…

Editor’s note: William Breathes is off today. In his absence, we bring you a classic installment of Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule that’s even more intriguing than it was upon its original publication in 2012. The Colorado legislature had passed laws making marijuana a misdemeanor in 1917, with fines up to…

I used to love the summertime in Boulder. It meant that a huge chunk of the college population went back to Connecticut or California or Texas or wherever they were from and left the tiny college town feeling tiny again. Apparently, that is no more. There is gridlock everywhere, even…

Dear Stoner: Where can I find Spice — synthetic weed — in Denver or Lakewood? I can’t use the real stuff and can’t find the stuff I used to buy anymore anywhere.Raul, from the potline Dear Raul: Think of the sketchiest neighborhood in Denver. Now find the nearest corner store…

April saw a lot more than crop-watering showers in the marijuana world. According to the Colorado Department of Revenue, about $22 million in recreational pot was sold in April, up nearly 60 percent from January, when retail sales started. Meanwhile, medical marijuana sales — which still far outpace recreational sales…

Over the years, Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule has focused on the state’s colorful history with herb. But what about our neighboring states? Yes, we know that Coloradans are getting profiled in states like Nebraska and Wyoming because we’re all supposedly pot-heads — and sometimes we think of our neighbors as…

In a way, I kind of miss the old Patients Plus. Not because it had good medical cannabis for sale. In fact it was quite the opposite. But I liked it because it exemplified the type of neon-green, warehouse-bud-filled dispensary I like to avoid — and I would often point…

Dear Stoner: Have there been any studies conducted on the benefits of using cannabis to help treat PMS?I’m Mean Once a Month Dear Mean: I hear you (sassy finger snaps). No, seriously, I know that PMS isn’t all about being a stereotypical raging bitch to the random barista who happens…

The Clinic’s fifth annual charity golf tournament, which benefits the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Colorado-Wyoming chapter, has doubled in size from previous years, but organizers say it’s already sold out. Although the Clinic hasn’t announced how much money it’s raised from participants and sponsors, the total’s at least $32,500 thanks…

Leadville in the 1880s was a tough town populated by mining tycoons, the poor miners that made those tycoons rich and the businesses that supported the industry. Okay, there were also a bunch of bunch of thieves, cheats, hookers, gamblers, drunks, visiting opera singers and (apparently) drug addicts around, too…

Is there a better stretch of road in Denver than Federal? Colfax, maybe. But Federal has the best food, the best people-watching, the best classic cars regularly cruising by — and it’s one of the last thoroughfare in the city whose character developers haven’t tried to steal in the last…

Dear Stoner: Here’s a stoner question that’s been on my mind: Is the world eternal?Grass Hopper Dear Grass Hopper: Waxing philosophical is one of life’s greatest stoned joys. As for your eternally unanswerable question: This stoner is a bowl-half-full kind of guy. Yes, the fact that Earth is only 4.5…

Based on the above ad from the September 18, 1901 Aspen Daily Times, cigars sold anywhere other than the Brick Saloon in town were filled with weed — which, apparently, they thought led people to make out with pigs. And people say the marijuana shop competition is tough these days…

It’s been a long wait, but May flowers eventually came — at least here at Mile Highs and Lows. It’s been a month of mediocre dispensaries (and hailstorms), leaving us with nothing but a few nice buds among a lot of slightly busted flowers while we wait to meet up…