For more than a year, we’ve been reporting on the subject of pot profiling — claims that drivers in vehicles with Colorado license plates are regularly being stopped in other states on a variety of shaky pretexts for marijuana searches. Our latest story comes from a man who was stopped…
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…
Anti-pot group Smart Colorado found this past weekend’s 4/20 celebration “shocking” — but a report from Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News juggernaut, The O’Reilly Factor, turns the event into a punchline, albeit while portraying participants as sadly clueless idiots. The report, from regular correspondent Jesse Watters, juxtaposes snippets of stoners making…
Yesterday, we shared negative remarks about Colorado by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in relation to this state’s marijuana laws. Among his comments: “For the people who are enamored with the idea with the income, the tax revenue from this, go to Colorado and see if you want to live…
Update below: Before becoming mired in a political scandal involving a bridge closure, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was once among the favorites to be nominated for President by the Republican Party, which could hold its 2016 convention here; Denver is a host-city finalist for the event. Should Christie make…
Yesterday, Rob Corry, attorney and speaker for the 4/20 rally at Civic Center Park, dismissed complaints about the event from the anti-pot group Smart Colorado as “hysterical.” He’s similarly critical of the Denver police arresting or citing 130 people (as well as jailing 22) at an event he otherwise sees…
While Denver’s Civic Center Park was wild on 4/20, drawing big crowds and sparking 130 arrests or citations over the course of the weekend, the scene at CU-Boulder — once the setting for what one advocate described as “an orgasm of cannabis consumption” — was anything but. For the third…
“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,…
As we noted in our roundup of the top twenty tweets about 4/20 at Civic Center Park over the weekend, some locals were less than thrilled about the annual event. But few observers were as negative as Smart Colorado, an organization devoted to “protecting youth from marijuana.” In the wake…
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…
Update below: Last week, Denver Police Department spokesman Sonny Jackson told us that officers would have a greater presence at the annual 4/20 event at Civic Center Park due both to the still-unsolved shooting that took place at last year’s rally and laws against public consumption of marijuana. However, he…
Did you notice that yesterday was 4/20? And that it was kind of a big deal in Denver? Twitter certainly did. There was an explosion of tweets on the topic yesterday — and while most of them were positive, there were definitely some exceptions. We collected what struck us as…
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…
Governor John Hickenlooper recently compared adult marijuana use to drinking a beer in the afternoon. But the State of Colorado isn’t treating the products equally in advance of the annual 4/20 events taking place this weekend. We don’t recall officials cautioning about the use and abuse of ale leading up…
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…
There’ll be a lot of pressure on Denver police officers working this weekend’s annual 4/20 event at Civic Center Park. Organizers have been asked to discourage public smoking even though lighting up at 4:20 p.m. on April 20 is arguably the gathering’s most sacred tradition — and security concerns are…
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…
It’s not easy to keep up with all the recreational marijuana shops licensed by the City of Denver. Our most recent update, published on April 3, featured 65 stores that have won the blessing of officials. Now, during the lead-up to the annual 4/20 festivities, the total has reached 73…
As we’ve reported, State of Colorado and City of Denver tourist agencies have resisted the temptation to use marijuana as a way to lure visitors to the area, despite mainstream media pot coverage that’s essentially free advertising. Against that backdrop comes word that hotel searches for Denver on 4/20 weekend…
