Don’t let the snow freeze you out from enjoying some comedy, industry mixers and more in this week’s cannabis calendar, and be sure to monitor some important local and state political developments as well. After several delays, Pueblo City Council is scheduled to vote on several rules regarding cannabis today…
Some things don’t change. Like, for example, the flow of “dope” over the Mexican border into the United States as this April 23, 1923 Telluride Daily Journal article illustrates. Yes, Americans have been wanting to get high and Mexico has been supplying our habits for a century or so. But…
Shortly after we published a breakdown of two lawsuits filed by Washington, D.C.-based Safe Streets Alliance against Colorado’s marijuana laws, the Marijuana Policy Project announced a call for a nationwide boycott against Holiday Inns. The reason: One of the SSA suits was filed by the owners of a Holiday Inn…
When we previewed the announcement of new lawsuits targeted Colorado’s pot laws (filed by Safe Streets Alliance, a Washington, D.C.-based group that misspelled “marijuana” in its press release), we noted that one of the challenges for the plaintiffs would be establishing standing in court — in other words, demonstrating that…
When I was in high school, I used to get my hair cut at a Korean-owned hair salon called Vicky’s. It was cheap and the staffers did a decent-enough job. Nothing fancy though: They pretty much used an electric razor for everything. But the part I remember most was the…
In December, the states of Oklahoma and Nebraska filed suit against Colorado over its marijuana laws. Today, a second federal lawsuit against Colorado is scheduled to be unveiled. But this time, the plaintiff isn’t another state, but an anti-drug group, Washington D.C.-based Safe Streets Alliance. At this writing, the suit…
We’ve been over this before, but it bears repeating: If you’re dealing in illegal pot, Texas is somewhere you should avoid. Gabriel Campbell, 29, learned that the hard way this week when cops in Brownwood, Texas,about two hours northwest of Austin, arrested him with a large cache of cannabis during…
In December, as we’ve reported, Nebraska and Oklahoma filed a lawsuit against Colorado in the U.S. Supreme Court over the state’s marijuana laws. Among the claims: Colorado’s marijuana experiment undermines pot bans in neighboring states, “draining their treasuries and placing stress on their criminal justice system.” Colorado’s attorney general has…
Dear Stoner: I recently stopped in at Euflora on the 16th Street Mall, and they wanted to scan my driver’s license. I’ve been there before, and they never did that. I’m clearly over 21 and not buying enough to make it matter if I live in state or not. (For…
Marijuana mania has been sweeping through Denver for some time, but only Colorado Springs has descended into Reefer Madness. Debuting over the weekend at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Reefer Madness uses music to parody the 1936 film of the same name. Of course, due to the flick’s poor production…
A 7News report about mold found in recreational marijuana flowers raised the prospect that impurities may endanger the health of medical marijuana patients — particular ones that might be suffering from a compromised immune system. But even as numerous legislators push the idea of medical-marijuana testing, a representative from one notable…
Marijuana turns you into a killer and therefore is known as the “killer” drug. That’s the takeaway from the following article describing a November 28, 1938 Women’s Club meeting in Steamboat specifically on the use and abuse of drugs. The club apparently was clueless about cannabis and invited a local…
With a beater RV and a few other assorted cars parked in the corner of its chain-link-fenced yard, Mile High Wellness looks like an abandoned Winnebago parts warehouse. It probably was at one point. That or some industrial supply something-or-other. But warehouse space all over the city has been taken…
Last year, a bill to add post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of conditions legally treatable by medical marijuana in Colorado failed despite the testimony of Sean Azzariti, a Marine who served in the Iraq war and spoke movingly about the plight of PTSD-suffering veterans like him. Cannabis advocate Brian Vicente…
During a roller coaster of a year, medical marijuana patient numbers increased slightly from the start of 2014 to December 31 — but marijuana revenue hit spectacular heights, with the combination of MMJ and recreational sales totaling just shy of $680 million. But while more patients were toking by the…
Since the legalization of limited marijuana sales in Colorado launched in January 2014, there’s been lots of debate among experts about the risks of stoned driving, as well as dueling statistics aplenty. Note that one report that claimed legalization hadn’t caused an increase in highway fatalities, while another maintained that…
Dear Stoner: I know what organic growing is, but what is “veganic” growing? Curious Cultivator Dear Curious: Veganic growing is the process of chopping up a vegan to feed your plants, Little Shop of Horrors style. Feed me, Seymour! Seriously, veganic growing is growing your cannabis without using any nutrients…
We’re less than a week away from Valentine’s Day, and marijuana businesses, which recently embraced Black Friday and the Christmas holidays, are hoping to entice lovers with products that go beyond cannabis itself. They include THC-infused sprays and oils that claim to take sex to a higher place. See also:…
If you and a special someone are looking to spend a cannabis-infused evening together for Valentine’s Day, there are a few events this week you might want to bookmark. And for those looking to learn about cannabis cultivation and extraction should get out their planners, too. See also: William Breathes…
Our Cannabis Time Capsule excavations first uncovered Maltos-Cannabis marijuana-infused Swedish medicinal treats a few years back, in an 1897 advertisement in the Svensk Amerkanska, a Denver paper for Swedish-speaking immigrants. Now, we’ve dug up another reference, this time in an actual article from 1895 in the same paper. It seems…
There are hundreds of pot-related smartphone apps, but few are really worth the time, effort or (often) money that it takes to install them. I recently downloaded ten of the top canna-apps in iTunes to see what’s worth getting — and what’s worth forgetting. See also: Stoner MacGyver Product Review:…
High Street Growers was one of the dozen or so dispensaries forced out of Fort Collins in 2012, when the town passed a ban on medical marijuana businesses. Unlike a lot of its competitors, High Street was able to make the jump and transfer its license to Denver, where the…
